2015 Motorcycle Podcast Episodes
Motorcycle Podcast
2015 was still early in the development of what would become the world’s most popular motorcycle podcast by 2018, with enough monthly downloads to put Adventure Rider Radio in the top 5% of ALL podcasts in ALL genres. For that we thank people like you that listen to the show.
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Alicia Sornosa is the first Spanish woman to ride around the world on a motorcycle. She lives to ride and travel, and says life is short and that the world is big, so she wants to explore and see as much of the world as she possibly can.
Perhaps her name says it all, but when you hear Michelle Hope speak, it really instills in us the possibilities of throwing caution to the wind
Nevil Stow, an ex-dogsled guide, is a world adventure motorcycle rider. His fervor for riding and other adventures, has progressed into the 9 Minute Moto Film Festival at the Mad Dog Cafe in Dead Mans Flats in Alberta...Talk motorcycles, and Max Stratton gets excited. His enthusiasm and passion for motorcycling is heard in his voice...
Fear of not knowing enough, not having enough money or not having the right equipment. Fear of what our friends or family might think, fear of being alone. The biggest hurdle is getting past all that, and making up your mind to just do it.
Michelle Lamphere had a high stress career with a six-figure salary, that was eating up her life. She only found time to ride one of her motorcycles on weekends, something she loved to do. Until one day Michelle met Brian,
Shirley Hardy Rix and Brian Rix are seasoned world travellers and they have most recently been on a trip which includes Russia and the Stans. We’ve had them on the show in previous episodes giving us mini updates as to how their journey was going, and now, being back again in Australia
Wanting some great answers on bike security, we figured the best place to turn to were the people who ride, the experts who have travelled to many different destinations in the world, and who would have the experience first hand on how to protect your motorcycle and gear from thieves.
This is a story about friendship, trust and adventure. Steve Mason, Raymond Danton and Wilson Hutchison were friends and biking buddies in Southwest Scotland in their teens. They eventually drifted apart to different lives, as many of us do, living in different countries...
In November, 2009, Spencer Conway left for a 9 month journey around Africa on his Yamaha XT660. His journey was documented by Diesel Films...
Graham Field, motorcycle traveller and adventure author, talks about his newest book, Different Natures, a book based on his diary offering an honest and open insight in to Graham’s life and his experiences on his journeys covering a twelve year period, and three separate North American trips.
Flat tires will stop your adventure quickly but it's a non-issue if you have the correct tools and the know-how. David Peterson, inventor and owner of BestRest Products, has some great tips and instruction for motorcycle tire repair, both for tubeless and tube type tires. We discuss some new tools and techniques that you may not have heard about before.
Some go for a few months, some for a few years. Scotty Kerekes has been living on the road for twenty-one years.
Riding Boots with Bret Tkacs from PSS Off Road: Do You Need Them or Not?
Well known adventurer on the ADVRider forum for his exploits in to Russia, Mongolia and the Stans, Walter Colebatch is considered to be an expert in that area of travel by motorcycle. His help is sought after by many who are planning to travel to those areas.
Zenith Irfan, a 20 year old female student in Pakistan, has become a heroin to women who want to have the independence and choice to ride a motorcycle.
With a true love for adventure and fun, Jacqui has been riding since she was 18 years old, and has toured around Europe twice on a scooter! In the last two years Jacqui Kennedy has been riding her Postie bike, which she calls Mo, around Australia and has covered over 47,000 km.
Sherri Jo was born in the United States and had always longed to travel the world. At a young age, she was bit by the travel bug and longed for adventure. After riding a motorcycle for many years in the United States, she decided to go on a solo motorcycle trip around the world. Starting out in Australia, she stayed on the road for more than three years. Great tips on solo travel and more.
After circumnavigating Africa, Jo Rust doesn’t know the meaning of taking a break. She’s now training to try to be the first female on the South Africa team at the BMW GS Trophy in 2016. She’s an off-road instructor and been appointed a BMW Ambassador...
Bernard Smith was told it was too dangerous to take a blind woman around the world. But, with Bernard as her pilot, Cathy Birchall was the first blind woman to circle the world by motorcycle...
The Dakar Rally is the world’s toughest off-road endurance race, an annual event where racers push themselves to the limit to compete in what has been said to be the most dangerous race, with great challenges in extreme conditions. And Christophe Barriere-Varju has been one of those die-hard competitors, having been in the Dakar Rally four times...
Hailing from Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, England, in 1999 Ian Coates left on a four month trip on his 1991 Honda Africa Twin motorcycle. 240,000 miles and 14 years later, 70 year old Ian finally returned home.
Born in East Germany, travel writer and photographer Ramona Schwartz grew up under Communist dictatorship and only knew freedom when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. She travelled for 6 years around the world, and to this day is still adventuring with her husband, Herbert with two kids in tow in the side car.
Valerie Thompson, Ryan Pyle and Jonathan Gibson all cross their own finish lines on this episode of Adventure Rider Radio
David Petersen is a motorcyclist, inventor and entrepreneur that has contributed plenty to our motorcycle community. On this episode we feature David in our MotoMogul segment. Lawrence Hacking is a motorcycle racer and has been since 1971, he is an author and journalist and is the organizer of his own successful rally called Lawrence Hacking’s Adventure Rally held each year in Ontario, Canada. And Spencer Hill reviews a tent he feels is a good fit for adventure motorcyclist
Travelling with your kids by motorcycle through foreign countries could be one of the best bonding agents and the Adventure Trio, Jack, Terry and Sandy Borden, are doing just that. Life is not always easy for them on the road, in fact they clearly say that it's not all roses, but in the end the scale is heavily weighted to the positive side for life experience, family bonding and pure adventure. he Bordens talk about what caused them to hit the road and what is was like preparing for and ultimately living on the road.
Alex Chacon
Alex Chacon is well known for his amazing videos, especially the selfie video that may have sparked the selfie video craze, and on this episode Alex talks more about video and getting your video seen by millions.
Linda Bootherstone-Bick has travelled the world by motorcycle for over fifty years and continues to ride. For her upcoming seventieth birthday she is planning to ride South America and be with friends playing her music.
On this episode Linda talks about what a lifetime of motorbike travel feels like to her. Linda has never lived a "normal" life as such so she may be the most seasoned moto-traveller you'll ever hear.
Tired of the cubicle job at BBC, in 2003 at 29 years old Lois quit her job and set out on a solo adventure riding her 225 Yamaha Serow from Alaska to Ushuaia. You can read about her adventures travelling to the southern most town in the world, at the tip of Argentina in her book, Lois on the Loose.
Adventure Rider Radio turns one year old and looks back ongoing fron zero listeners in June 2014 to around 30,000 downloads each month and rising. ADV stars likme Ted Simon, Sam Manicom, Grant Johnson, Rene Cormier and many more.
Ara & his rescue dog, Spirit, have been camping and living full time on the road for the last 10 years in North America, following the good weather and the sights Mother Nature provides.
Robert Wicks is a prolific author and motorcycle adventurer. He has written four in depth books on adventure motorcycling that cover the complete range of prepping, planning and riding your motorbike. Robert has travelled extensively in Africa and Iceland and is a wealth of knowledge.
Crash Bars
Are your bars any good? Your mounting points may be the deciding factor when buying crash bars but there is so much to know. What you should be asking when buying a set of crash bars.
Elisa Wirkala has done a fair bit of motorcycle adventure travel. On this episode Elisa talks about frugal travel on small displacement bikes in South America.
Destination Peru
Peru may be the ultimate adventure motorcycling destination. Alberto Lara and Naomi Tweddle share their travel experience about Peru.
Meet Jacqui Furneaux, a housewife and nurse, who found that life had changed as she approached her 50th birthday. Jacqui, who has a love for travel decided to embark on an a year’s journey, backpacking in Thailand and South-East Asia then to Pakistan and India.
Sam travelled 13,000 miles, just shy of 21,000 Kilometres from London England to Beijing China with 14 other riders ona GlobeBusters Expedition to study the eefects of fatigue on the body of motorcyclists doing long distance travel.
Is coffee effective at combating fatigue?
How long before you need to stop for a break?
Does riding make us fat?
and much more...
Max McAllister from Traxxion Dynamics and Iain Glynn from Touratech USA have loads of tips and explainations for both front and rear motorcycle suspensions.
Ted Simon talks about his life, his world famous book, Jupiter's travels and his view on adventure travel and what it means to him.
You're in for a shock, literally with this episode that focuses on suspension. So much to learn and all from the experts. Grant Johnson walks us through the basics and Ted Porter answers some hard questions on suspension and if you think this isn't about you - think again.
Simon Pavey
Off road racer and riding instructor from Off-Road Skills in the UK talks about his world class BMW adventure motorcycle rider training school.
We look at off-road riding schools beginning with PSSOR this week. Do you really need lessons to ride your adventure bike off road or can you learn through the school of hard knocks. After-all isn't that how the pros learned?
Herbert Schwarz is not your typical CEO. He does run an expanding business with three hundred plus employees but his real passion is what got his company started - adventure motorcycling.
On this episode Carla talks about her book and motorcycle adventures in general.
Grant Johnson from Horizons Unlimited gives a chain adjustment instruction guarenteed to turn your difficult chain adjustment into a five minute breeze. :)
Glen was captured in Colombia by rebel guerrillas and held prisoner. He was tortured, starved, beaten and abused during his five weeks in captivity but he managed to stage his imminent death which won him freedom.
Doris Wiedemann is an author, journalist and world motorbike traveller and she loves riding her bike in winter snow. Yep, you read that correctly, winter snow. You can hear it in her voice, she really loves riding in slippery, cold snow on two wheels.
The ups and downs between riding with two bikes or one, for two riders. Brian Rix and Shirley Hardy-Rix discuss the pros and cons with host, Jim Martin. You'll be surpised what they say.
Tiffany Coates Grand Adventures continued from last week. We left her in Timbuktu on the previous episode, so listen in to see where she ends up next.
Tiffany Coates
Part 1 of Tiffany Coates' Grand Adventures
Considered the world’s foremost female bike adventurer, Tiffany Coates has covered more miles than any other solo female rider. She’s a well travelled motorcyclist, visiting many countries and having ridden over 200,000 miles.
Canmore, Alberta, Canada Lasham and March Deal with Winter Riding
Here’s proof that you don’t need a big motorcycle to have a real adventure. Ed and his trusty Honda C90 have travelled around the world, visiting 36 countries and covering over 70,000 miles.
Alex Chacon's Story
36 countries in 500 days in just under 3 minutes. Hard to believe? Really. Meet Alex Chacon, an adventure motorcyclist who travelled from Alaska to Argentina and captured all the places he visited on a Gopro.
Graham Hoskins, host of Adventure Bike TV in the UK, talks about his motorcycle riding adventures and shares some tips on the pros and cons of filming a motorbike adventure, or any adventure for that matter.
Rob Beach has many years experience working as a motorcycle guide, for reputedly the oldest motorcycle tour company in the world. Founded in 1972, Rob’s family has been running guided motorcycle trips mainly in Europe, specifically the Alps. What’s involved in taking an organized motorcycle tour? What are the advantages?
Weather or Not
Motorcycle Travel experts Sam Manicom, Graham Field and Grant Johnson give great advice on riding in bad or extreme weather conditions. Some fantastic tips on preparation, gear, reading the weather from your tent and more that you won’t want to miss!
Postie Bike Rider - Nathan Millward Tours the GlobeNathan and Dorothy have enjoyed a special relationship over the years. Dorothy is getting up there in years, but after she retired from the Australian Postal service, she was still going strong and joined Nathan as he traversed around the world.
As we wrap up 2015, we thank all of you, our listeners, our guests and our sponsors. Wherever in the world you are, whatever your customs and traditions... dare to dream and always take the high road.