The Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast

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Ever fancied a go at racing?  Not sure where to start, or what type of racing to do?

We are joined by gentlemen racers, Andrew 'Seats' Seaton and Ed 'BikerEdd' Harris to talk about some accessible, not crazy expensive options open to everybody....

You are welcome.  Don't crash.  Go slow.

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Direct from the cover of Chris Scott's  'Adventure Motorcyling Handbook', we welcome Chris Bright.  An old friend of Noels, and a man who has probably done more trips than Noel!

Chris has travelled extensively throughout the world, and we are delighted that he shared some of his stories with us.

Please welcome the "Dad of the F &£king Warriors"!

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Dave Darcy is the shooter producer of youtube channel Motorcycle Adventure Dirtbike TV (MADTV).  Dave is also the Editor at Large at Australian Adventure Bike Magazine.

Dave prefers to focus on movie length Motorcycle Adventure documentaries and millions have watched those films. 

Dave is a very experienced adventure rider with successful international rides, London to Sydney, Road of Bones in Siberia, North Western India and many challenging rides in Australia and New Zealand.

The MADTV channel is about mates sharing motorcycle adventures, testing bikes and sometimes filming expert riders.   

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This is literally and totally sprockets and bollocks (Copyright, Moto Junkies).  A bunch of listeners turned mates, talking cod-shit about bikes and other nonsense.  

I'd introduce you , but they are all called Adam, except the ones that aren't.  Wine Adam, Fussy Adam, Young Adam, Adam the Engineer, Noel Adam and Clive Adam.

Oh, and they are all rescuing heroes.  

Old potty mouth is at is again, it's a bit sweary, you've been warned.

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Growing up in poverty as a child, Dylan dreamt of travelling the world on a motorcycle. Many years later he broke the shackles of a normal life and took to the road. 

After journeying 200,000km across four continents, the road from Panama to Colombia comes to an end, swallowed up by an impenetrable jungle. Dylan has no choice but to take to the sea, building a raft powered by his motorcycle engine in the hope of reaching Colombia's road network 700km away. He must brave strong ocean currents and storm batterings in his journey from Central to South America.

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Neil Barron is a designer, engineer and entrepreneur who revels in creating innovative new technologies and products, "I am passionate about design and innovation and see them as much more than mere problem-solving activities – they are the source of new opportunities."

"After having several bicycles stolen on the streets of London and fed up with having to carry around heavy bike locks, I thought there must be a way to create high-security and lightweight bike locks."

Litelok make the best bike locks in the business we think, check them out at www.litelok.com

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Adam Lyman is a design researcher, engineer, entrepreneur and adventure motorcyclist.   He uses his skills to make devices that actually work to help improve people's lives in rural Africa, and to keep an ancient Africa Twin on the dirt roads of southern Africa, which is probably where it should be.  See, not just a clever name.

He recently launched The Bush Barrow Company which is a social enterprise he started with a community partner in Zambia. They produce appropriate mobility technology that makes life easier for people in Africa. This company was born from a three-year collaborative design process with small-scale farmers in Zambia. 

He also rides an excellent Africa Twin and is Noel's best Internet friend.

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Brett Anderson was living a healthy and active life with his wife and dog in Hot Springs, Virginia.  He had worked as a pilot for United Airlines for 26 years out of Washington D.C. and was a senior Captain flying International routes to Europe and South America.  In the late summer of 2021 he noticed that he was having excessive shortness of breath with simple exertions, such as walking up a slight hill, something very unusual for him as he regularly ran 3-4 miles a day, rode motorcycles off-road, and lifted weights.   As this continued and got worse Brett went to his doctor who took a chest x-ray and immediately sent him to the local emergency room, where they admitted him to the hospital for 4 days.  He was diagnosed with Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia, a type of Autoimmune Lung disease.   After being released and started on a treatment regimen, he got better for a while, but then stopped improving after a few months.  He could not get back to running and other cardio activities without extreme shortness of breath.  

Concerned about the long-term effects, Brett went to one of the top pulmonology clinics in the world, the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester MN, where he was eventually diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis as a result of the Eosinophilic Pneumonia. 

 Knowing that PF is a terminal lung disease, but not knowing if he had one year or many left, Brett decided to not only fulfill some dreams of his own by riding his motorcycle in different areas around the world, but to use his journeys to inspire others and to show that a bad medical diagnosis does not mean you have to stop living your life.  Because the FAA has decided that he cannot keep flying with this disease, his career is currently on hold, but he is working with his doctors to convince the FAA that he is safe to keep flying at his current disease level.   In the meantime, Brett decided to raise money for Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness and research through a fundraiser for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.

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Welcome to this weeks episode.  We welcome the very modest, and very funny Matt Bishop and Reece Gilkes, AKA The Sidecar Guys.

They hold a world record for the longest around the world trip on a scooter and sidecar.  As if anybody else would even be remotely interested in trying to beat that ridiculous record!

Anyway they tell some great stories, and despite the scooter bit, they give great podcast.

They also tell us about their brilliant festival of all things adventure - https://www.armchairadventurefestival.com/

Sounds great, you should go, on your new Ural outfit, which you can also buy from them... https://www.sidecarexperience.co.uk/ or just go on one of their experience days.

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