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37: Near Misses, Credit Card Fraud, Travel by Ural and Going Electric

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ARR RAW Round Table Discussions With Motorcycle Adventure Travellers - Featuring Grant Johnson, Brian Rix, Shirley Hardy-Rix, Sam Manicom, Graham Field and Jim Martin.

FIND OUT MORE: To find out more about the co-hosts go to the RAW CO-HOST FEATURE PAGES: Shirley Hardy-Rix & Brian Rix, Grant Johnson, Graham Field and Sam Manicom.


On This Episode:

Graham Field: While in India, Graham Field finds out what it’s like to be the target of possible credit card fraud or even stolen identity.

Topic: Lessons learned from near misses on and off-road ~ Dan Collins

URALS:

Question: I'm interested in the group's thoughts on Urals as far as long distance rigs. Have you seen many out on the roads or know anyone who's done serious distance on one? ~ Nick Vicente

NEW HARLEY DAVIDSON ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE, ELECTRIC BIKES AND TRAVEL:

Discussion about Harley Davidson’s new e-bike and about electric motorcycles in general. Electric bikes are coming - what’s this going to mean for travel? Is it even possible to ride an electric bike through different countries? Is it realistic at all?


LINKS:

Sam Manicom has taken much of his valuable time to put together this list of useful links for RAW listeners:

URALS

American Borders: A solo circumnavigation of the United States borders on a Russian sidecar motorcycle by Carla King - Find the link to your favorite store at books2read.com/americanborders

ELECTRIC BIKES

Trui Hanoulle

https://adventureriderradio.com/adventure-rider-radio-episodes/2017/3/23/7000-km-on-an-electric-motorcycle-from-mx-racer-to-womens-off-road-riding-coach

Zap Map - EV charging point App 

zap-map.com/

Link for world charging points

openchargemap.org/site/country. Interesting map.

EV in Africa – a fascinating set of comments