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Adventure Rider Radio motorcycle podcast - The voice of moto travel, is motorcycle adventure travel around the world. Experienced moto travellers and industry motorbike pros with tech tips, instruction and stories of adventure motorcycling with host, Jim Martin on the most popular adv rider podcast in the world.
Every Thursday a new episode brings motorbike travel stories and information for all motorbike enthusiasts. Inspirational, motivating and educational.

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12.06.2019

There are four riding positions that every adventure motorcyclist, really all motorcyclists, should know that are the foundation of all the riding you do. We talk with riding instructor, Clinton Smout, about what those positions are, and how and when ...

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12.06.2019 Rider Skills: 4 Motorcycle Riding Positions You Should Know There are four riding positions that every adventure motorcyclist, really all motorcyclists, should know that are the foundation of all the riding you do. We talk with riding instructor, Clinton Smout, about what those positions are, and how and when ...
11.29.2019 Delivering Tough Rides Tom Medema recently returned from a trip with 15 volunteers who rode Yamaha XTZ 125's to Nepal, delivering the motorcycles to park rangers. On the ride they faced many challenges, including high altitudes, low oxygen and snow. We talk about ...
11.22.2019 Riding the Trampoline of Death Jeremy Kroeker and Elle West have been on the road for about three months, making their way to Ushuaia. They’ve spent the last month riding in Colombia and one of the major challenges they’ve faced was what’s called the Trampoline ...
11.15.2019 Changing Gears in Motorcycle Travel urning 74 years young next week, Linda Bootherstone-Bick is full of energy and excitement for the next adventure with no end in sight. After being a rider for over 50 years with an incredibly easy going attitude, she recognizes that ...
11.08.2019 Sand, Heat and Desert Riding Tips \| Simpson Desert Adventure Jimmy Lewis talks about what it’s like to ride in the deserts in Nevada, USA. He also has some great tips on tires and what you can expect when desert riding. Clinton Smout from SMART Adventures gives some tips on ...
10.31.2019 How to Choose Motorcycle Foot Pegs \| Moto Advice on the Internet - Valid or Nonsense? On this episode we talk to Chris Hardin about how to choose a motorcycle peg that suits you, your bike and the type of riding you do. And Warren Milner talks about how the internet is like the wild west ...
10.25.2019 Crossing in to Colombia - Exploring the Unknown Jeremy Kroeker and Elle West are riding their motorcycles from Canada to Ushuaia and even though they’ve been a couple for over two years, they’ve never spent this much time together. They’ve been on the road for about two months, ...
10.16.2019 Rider Skills: Balance For Performance - Jimmy Lewis Jimmy Lewis starts his classes off with balance training because he feels that all skills are built on that. It’s a foundation skill. You need to master balance before you start building other motorcycle riding skills. And once you have, ...
10.10.2019 Around the World in Five Months - Maurice McDonald When civil unrest in Africa threw a monkey wrench in to Maurice McDonald’s plans to ride around the world in 2005, he had no choice but to end his trip and return to the UK. He still dreamt of completing ...
10.03.2019 Africa - The Most Difficult - Lyndon Poskitt Adventurer Lyndon Poskitt, Races to Places, has now completed travelling the world, culminating in Africa. He shares some of his experiences with mixed feelings about the continent and the countries within, a place he said was the hardest, most difficult, ...
09.26.2019 The Border Fixer's Charm On this episode, Jeremy Kroeker and Elle West's planned border crossing in to Guatemala doesn't go exactly according to plan. Jeremy and Elle have been together for a couple of years, they’re both experienced riders and travelers, but have never ...
09.19.2019 Ushuaia Bound - No Matter What it Takes: Daniel Byers Daniel Byers quit his corporate job of 12 years to do a trip he had dreamed of doing for years, riding from Ohio to Ushuaia. He’s had some challenges and setbacks, but he’s determined to continue the trip and get ...
09.12.2019 Rider Skills: Gravel Travel - Clinton Smout Basic skills for riding motorcycles on gravel roads. Increase your confidence and safety with these few techniques. Rider Skills with Clinton Smout - S.M.A.R.T Adventure Programs. Listen to over 250 adventure travel by motorcycle episodes on Adventure Rider Radio at ...
09.05.2019 Two-Up Around the World on a KTM - Tim and Marisa Notier Tim and Marisa Notier were once high school sweethearts that went their separate ways when Marisa went to college and Tim stayed back in Chicago to work. After ten years apart, leading completely different lives, they got together again and ...
08.29.2019 Southward Chronicles: The Journey Begins - Jeremy Kroeker and Elle West Jeremy Kroeker and Elle West have been together for a couple of years, they’re both experienced riders and travellers, but have never spent any significant amount of time with each other, just weekends. Now they’re travelling together, from Canada to ...
08.22.2019 Choosing Adventure Motorcycle Riding Boots ATGATT. It’s so simple, yet so many people seem to think it doesn’t apply to them. And part of that important gear that protects us while riding is footwear… namely boots. On this week’s episode we talk with Jim Hyde ...
08.15.2019 Jan and Silke Neumann - Getting to Know the Locals in Iran The thought of travel to a country that has a culture that is foreign to many of us can be daunting, even scary. But, in the motorcycle adventure industry, we hear time and time again of the good, even great, ...
08.08.2019 Rider Skills: Mastering Standing on Your Pegs - Clinton Smout There are many advantages to standing on your pegs for slow speed maneuvering and most, if not all, instructors would tell you that standing on your pegs will dramatically improve your control over the motorcycle. On this week’s exclusive ARR ...
08.01.2019 Louisa Swaden: Becoming the Existential Biker Although Louisa Swaden had a good job in the publishing industry, she didn’t feel fulfilled. So she began the task of discovering what it was that made her happy. She researched, exercised and meditated. She took a sabbatical from work ...
07.25.2019 Jocelin Snow: No Challenge Too Big From road racing to competing in the GS Trophy in Mongolia, Jocelin Snow has overcome some challenges and obstacles that might have stopped some riders, including recovering from a racing accident and riding a motorcycle some said was too big ...
07.18.2019 Ted Simon Tells Travellers to Get Lost Ted Simon’s book, Jupiter’s Travels, has had a tremendous influence on motorcyclists and travellers around the world. He is often said to be the godfather of motorcycle travel or adventure. Now 88 years old, Ted Simon has an opinion about ...
07.11.2019 Riding the Dark Side - Using Car Tires on Motorcycles \| Cardo Freecom 4+ and Cardo PACKTALK Bold What are the real trade-offs in ‘riding on the dark side’ and what, if any, are the dangers for trading off your speciality designed motorcycle tires for the ubiquitous and often inexpensive car rubber? Tire expert, T. J. Tennent talks ...
07.04.2019 How to Choose the Right Motorcycle Helmet \| Testing Helmets at the Snell Foundation There are so many different manufacturers and models of motorcycle helmets on the market that choosing the right one for you can be a daunting task. Clinton Smout from SMART Adventures deals with this every day, and he has some ...
06.27.2019 Motorcycling in the Land of Kiwis, Sheep and the Māori What do kiwis, sheep and Burt Munro have in common? New Zealand. That’s where you just might want to consider going for your next adventure. We talked with Zoe Cano, who travelled there last year, and with Kim Johnston from ...
06.21.2019 Last Chance for Adventure - Heather Ellis When Heather Ellis was required to do a routine medical test to get a Visa to travel to Russia, she wasn’t expecting the news she got from the doctor. Despite the challenges Heather was facing, she remained strong and persevered, ...
06.13.2019 Rider Skills: Two Steps to Achieve Maximum Braking - ABS or Not On this episode of ARR’s exclusive Rider Skills, instructor Walt Fulton from Streetmasters Motorcycle Workshops, walks us through maximum braking on a motorcycle. It’s easy to learn and just takes some practice. Mastering this will make you a better, safer ...
06.07.2019 Road Troubles \| Local Motorcycle Forums \| Tips to Help With Road Travel Problems What are the odds of breaking down twice in a week on a road trip with two different vehicles towing the same motorcycle hauler? We’ve got tips to help with or to avoid road travel problems. And we talk about ...
05.30.2019 Converting Tube Type Rims to Tubeless \| Rider to Rider Motorcycle Rentals On this episode we talk about converting tube type rims to tubeless, the Outex Tubeless Kit and we talk to two companies who help arrange renting a motorcycle from a fellow rider. Listen to over 250 adventure travel by motorcycle ...
05.24.2019 The Story Behind ADV Rider Forum - Chris MacAskill Chris MacAskill is a lifelong motorcyclist and the founder of the forum, ADV Rider. After a motorcycle trip to Mexico, Chris launched the forum as an online community for adventure riders and it has been growing steadily for almost two ...
05.17.2019 Road Trip Challenges - India to Burma - Andy Benfield Andy Benfield had spent much of his life living and travelling in different parts of the world, before moving to India, and developing his love for motorcycling on Royal Enfields. Years later, Andy and his girlfriend make the trip from ...
05.10.2019 Destination Borneo - A Rider's Experience - Tiffany Coates Tiffany Coates has spent the last 20 years travelling to far off places around the world and most recently she went to Borneo, the third largest island in the world known for it’s wildlife, beaches and rainforest. In an unexpected ...
05.03.2019 Rider Skills: How to Ride an Adventure Motorcycle Over Logs - Clinton Smout If you spend much time riding unmaintained roads and trails in a forested area, then you are bound to find a tree laying across your track sometime. Riding a big adventure bike has some limitations for the average rider but ...
04.25.2019 Close to Home - Short Motorcycle Adventure Trips - Trevor Marc Hughes Adventure travel doesn’t mean having to go abroad or to another country when adventure can be found much closer to home. There’s also some great advantages to keeping your motorcycle trip short, including cost, less gear to pack, less planning, ...
04.18.2019 Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems \| Aussie on an Indian Motorcycle Darryl VanNieuwenhuise tells the story behind Cyclops Adventures, as well as explains how the Cyclops TPMS works. And Chris Keeble rides a highly customized Indian motorcycle around Australia, turning each weekend in to a theme ride, looking for churches, graveyards, ...
04.12.2019 Trouble in Panama - Spencer Conway \| Answering Tough Motorcycle Tire Questions What could possibly go wrong when flying your motorcycle in to Panama? Spencer James Conway and Cathy Nel thought everything was going well until they found themselves the targets of a criminal sting. After a harrowing experience, they barely got ...
04.04.2019 Coach Ramey Stroud - 'My Voice in Their Head' On some of our past Rider Skills episodes you’ve heard the voice of Coach Ramey Stroud, who headed up the Cascade Endurance Centre rider training complex on his ranch in Oregon. Last week, Coach Ramey Stroud passed away, a tremendous ...
03.29.2019 Fifty Miles to Go, Three Riders Down - Mexico Bill Cagnacci is an Australian motorcyclist who recently took a trip with RawHyde Adventures. There were 19 motorcycle riders plus a support crew headed to Mexico. But, because of a particularly nasty winter, they were blocked by snow and unable ...
03.22.2019 Rider Skills - Trail Braking - Clinton Smout \| SPOT X - 2 Way Satellite Messenger On Rider Skills we talk to instructor, Clinton Smout, about braking into the corner - trail braking - and we aren’t talking about going faster - we are talking about riding safer. And after that, if you ride anywhere that ...
03.15.2019 Twist of a Broken Wrist - Heidi and David Winters After saving for almost three years, in 2010 Heidi and David Winters left on a fifteen month long motorcycle trip, visiting 37 countries. On their KTM 640 Adventure, they rode 2-up, camping and couch surfing along the way. While on ...
03.08.2019 The Coldest Ride - Karolis Mieliauskas Karolis Mieliauskas, an adventure motorcycle rider from Lithuania, covered a distance of 1000 km riding from Yakutsk to Oymyakon, which is considered the coldest inhabited place on earth. He completed the trip in just four days in a land where ...
03.01.2019 Taking Flight With Your Motorcycle Flying your bike is easier than you think. We talked to someone at Air Canada about how to fly your motorcycle. Find out how to book the flight, how to prepare your motorcycle and when you need to get your ...
02.21.2019 Not According to Plan - Francis Walsh Sometimes even the best laid plans for adventure can change or fall apart, and while that might be a worrisome thought for some people, it can actually add to the adventure or change things in ways that might surprise you. ...
02.15.2019 Motorcycle Messengers 2 - Jeremy Kroeker \| Rider Skills: Back to Basics - Clinton Smout Jeremy Kroeker's book, Motorcycle Messengers, features motorcycle travel stories by many authors who’s names you’ve already heard on ARR and some that may be new to you. A variety of short stories, hours of inspiring reads, sure to put the ...
02.08.2019 7 Travel Tips You Should Know Before You Go \| Best Cold Weather Riding Socks Ever Planning a motorcycle adventure trip takes a lot and can be exhausting. And sometimes it’s the simple things you don’t think about when planning, that can make all the difference in your trip. We went to some experts who’ve done ...
02.01.2019 Rekluse Auto Clutch - Honda DCT Demystified - How a Slipper Clutch Works Auto Clutches, Dual Clutch Transmissions and Slipper Clutches… Joe Boisvert from Rekluse, Walt Milner and Karl Engellenner explain how these systems work, in easy to understand terms. Not for just the mechanically inclined, listen in and next time the clutch ...
01.24.2019 Addicted to Moto Travel - Paul and Neake Hannaby Paul and Neake Hannaby left for a six month motorcycle adventure, with no concrete plan in mind other than exploring the East Coast of the United States and then seeing how they felt. They’ve been on the road for almost ...
01.17.2019 Exploring South America - Ruff on the Road - Jess and Greg Stone in Guatemala Jess and Greg Stone first met in South Sudan, East Africa in 2010. After a bit of a choppy start, they got together and when Greg said he was planning to go on a motorcycle trip, Jess offered to go ...
01.10.2019 Rider Skills: Tips For No Stop Turning - Lessons Gone Wrong with Clinton Smout \| What's in Your Panniers - Lisa & Simon Thomas Clinton Smout, motorcycle instructor, has tips for turning adventure bikes around in soft or low traction environments, that can be used both off-road and on-road, and for any motorcycle. He also shares some stories when lessons that have gone wrong ...
01.04.2019 Riding the Ancestor Trail - A Journey of Self Discovery - Liz Jansen Sometimes a motorcycle trip can be more than just discovering new places and making connections. Liz Jansen is the author of three books, and her most recent, Crash Landing, is the story of her quest to answer some questions about ...
12.28.2018 Warm Hands and Gloves \| Motorcyclists Passing the Baton Jim puts a pair of elkskin riding gloves to the test and talks with Aerostich’s Andy Goldfine about the benefits of elkskin leather. Could this be your next pair of riding gloves? And women riders from around the world are ...

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