Roland Blechschmied is the director of the short film, The Freeride Spirit, which captures and celebrates the culture of Hard Enduro motorcycling. The Freeride Spirit was one of 15 films selected for showing at this year’s TMFF Motorcycle Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.

The trailer for the film can be seen at the following places:

* Alive Pictures: https://www.alive-pictures.com/

* TMFF YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2jnrsWPtb4

At the time of publication, it’s Roland’s intention to make the full film available for viewing at his website, Alive Pictures (see link above), by early 2025.

Roland can be found on Instagram at: @mr.gsd

During our conversation, Roland made reference to the following creators:

* Dylan Wineland

* Dustin Humphrey

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Tom Gould, from the YouTube channel “I Like Motorbikes” was my guest on episode 8 of the Reel Riders podcast. When I spoke to him for that episode in March this year he and girlfriend Lauren were travelling down the west coast of Africa, heading to South Africa.

In October I had the opportunity to speak with Tom again, and ask how the trip has gone and what the future holds for them.

I had originally planned to insert this second conversation into another episode but then decided it was better to release it as a standalone “mini-episode”.

You can find Tom at:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ILikeMotorbikes

Instagram: https://instagram.com/ilike_motorbikes

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Instagram has become this podcast’s main social media channel, and while I’m a far-from-frequent poster myself, I do spend quite a lot of my time there, keeping an eye on former guests and looking out for potential future guests. Till now, the podcast hasn’t paid much attention to visual creatives whose main gig is Instagram.... but today’s episode is very much based around someone whose primary focus is Instagram.

I came across Julie Hauser on Instagram about 9 months ago and her quirky videos (mainly motorcycle-based, but a healthy dose of cat content too) immediately resonated with me. I found her less-than-serious approach a breath of fresh air and a pleasant change of pace to a lot of the rather earnest content that one can find when searching Instagram for anything about motorcycles. I reached out to Julie, and in this episode you'll hear our conversation.

In the episode Julie made reference to the following Instagram account:

@americanbaron

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Caius Tenche is the founder and director of TMFF, the Toronto-based Motorcycle Film Festival. The eighth edition of the festival was held at the beginning of October this year and I travelled to Toronto to attend the festival and interview Caius.

You can find information about the festival at their website and various channels:

Website: https://www.motorcyclefilmfest.com/

Instagram: @themotorcyclefilmfest

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themotorcyclefilmfest

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themotorcyclefilmfest

Caius made reference to a number of films or directors associated with this year’s festival. You can see details about the 15 selected films at the festival’s website. You can also see trailers for most of the films.

Caius also made reference to the following YouTube channel:

Stories of Bike: www.youtube.com/@storiesofbike

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Andre Bajaria is a true motorcycling enthusiast, with that unique flavour of enthusiasm that comes with people who discover something a little later in life. Our conversation was wide-ranging covering his experiences of filming while guiding, his coverage of the annual EICMA Motorcycle Show and a deep dive into in-helmet audio capture.

You can find Andre at:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PeakMotorcycles

Instagram: @peakmotorcycles

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peakmotorcycles

Website: https://peakmotorcycles.com

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Arvīds Barānovs is a visual creative based in Riga, Latvia, with experience in various digital media, though these days he considers videography to be his main occupation.

You can find Arvīds at:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArvidsBaranovs

Instagram: @arvids

Website: https://www.eaglewood.pictures

In this episode, mention was made of the following creators:

Werner Herzog

Stanley Kubrick

RevZilla: https://www.youtube.com/@RevZilla

Itchy Boots: https://www.youtube.com/@ItchyBoots

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This episode is a little different… It’s a re-posting of Season 6 Episode 18 of The Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast, which was released on the 5th August. As you will hear shortly, I was invited to join hosts Clive Barber and Noel Thom, plus Marc Deri of the Lightweight Adventurers Podcast, on this episode. (Marc was one of my guests for Ep13 of Reel Riders.)

One thing I do want to mention.... Through no particular design, the Reel Riders podcast has so far been pretty family friendly. There’s a bit of colourful language in this episode, so if you have young ears nearby, you might want to listen to this one later, by yourself.

Thank you Clive and Noel for allowing me to share their podcast for this episode of Reel Riders.

You can subscribe to The Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. They are on Facebook and Instagram, plus they have a website:

Instagram: @tampodcast

Website: https://www.tampodcast.com/

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Regular listeners will know that I’ve been plugging The Lightweight Adventure Festival 2024 for a while now, not the least because I’ve been invited by the hosts of the festival’s “TAMP Stage”, the Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast, to give a couple of presentations. It should probably come as no surprise then, that I invited the festival’s creators, Jamie Thom and Marc Deri, on to the pod to have a chat before this year’s festival takes place. Jamie and Marc are YouTubers in their own right, having published more than 260 videos to date and this was my main motivation for having them on this episode.

You can find The Lightweight Adventurers at:

YouTube: https//www.youtube.com/@lightweightadv

Instagram: @the_lightweight_adv

Website: https://www.lightweightadventurers.co.uk

In this episode, mention was made of the following creators:

Casey Neistat: https://www.youtube.com/@casey

Beau Miles: https://www.youtube.com/@BeauMiles

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YouTube’s algorithm helped me discover Isabelle’s YouTube channel DUSTnROAD in late 2023, and immediately I knew I wanted to speak to her about her film-making. I had a feeling she would make a great interview subject for the Reel Riders podcast. You will make your own assessment after listening to this episode, but I certainly feel my own initial assessment was spot on.

You can find Isabelle at:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dustnroad

Instagram: @dustnroad

Website: https://www.dustnroad.com

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Chris Moon is a fellow podcaster as well as a film-making adventure motorcyclist, and thus was always going to be someone I wanted to interview. I’ve mentioned his German-language podcast here previously, but today we’re strictly talking about his film-making and YouTube publishing experiences.

Chris’ YouTube channel is called chris.moon.travels:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chris.moon.travels

Instagram: @chris.moon.travels

Podcast: chris.moon.cast (in German/auf Deutsch)

In this episode, Chris made reference to the following film creators:

Thomas Hansen https://www.youtube.com/@tshansen

Erik Peters https://www.youtube.com/@ErikPeters

Valle on Tour https://www.youtube.com/@valleontour

Adam Riemann https://www.youtube.com/@MotologyFilms

Nomad Sweden https://www.youtube.com/@NomadSweden

The Story Till Now https://www.youtube.com/@TheStoryTillNow

For anyone still looking to attend the Lightweight Adventure Festival 2024, visit the website for tickets: https://www.lightweightadventurers.co.uk/

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ReelRidersPodcast

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