Is the German version successful in the German speaking parts of Europe? If not, don't bother with considering an English version for the English speaking parts of the world.
I'd be surprise if your motorcycle travel book will have such a large target audience to justify different English versions for UK/Australasia/North America.
I wish you all the best in your venture. I just hope you know how to write something interesting. Lots of my m/c-contemporaries' books are boring as hell. Why: Because they might be great people and able to write in the medium of English (as I can), but can't tell an interesting story in written form (like I can't).
Of the 10 or so bike travel books I've read, 2 were excellent (Jonny Bealby's Running with the Moon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Running-With.../dp/0099436655 and Robert Fulton's One Man Caravan http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1884313051 ), 2 or 3 others were so so and the other half only good for lighting a fire. I've since given up buying biker's travel books.
You then also have to sell the book. Unless you have a publisher (or even despite having a publisher), think of how many bike meetings you have to attend and speak to people just because you want to flog them your wares, rather than just having an interesting conversation with a like minded person.
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