The Fear of Riding in Front of Others and How to Work Through It — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW There’s a side of motorcycle training almost no one talks about — the mental pressure of learning new skills in front of other riders. Why can training make you feel like you’ve suddenly gotten worse ...

When riding in front of others shakes your confidence, what’s actually going on — and how do you fix it?

New episode with Chris Birch & Monica Birch.

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RIDER SKILLS: 5 Different Methods For Turning a Motorcycle Around — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW Motorcycles aren’t meant to back up. If they were, they’d all come with reverse. Sometimes, turning around requires a little creativity—especially on dead-end trails, in parking lots, on hills, or eve...

If turning your motorcycle around feels like a real problem… this Rider Skills episode is for you.

We break down five practical turnaround methods for real-world terrain.

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Two Seconds: When a Motorcycle Meets a Moose on a Mountain Road — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW On a mountain road on Colorado’s Guanella Pass , motorcyclist Adam Lamb spots a moose stepping out of the brush. Two seconds later, he’s airborne, both arms broken and stranded off the road without...

A mountain pass in Colorado when something moves in the brush.

2 seconds later everything changes.

A real-world look at wildlife encounters, emergency braking, & how a trained search-&-rescue responder ...

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Ride a Ténéré to the Ténéré Desert.

But not long after crossing into Niger, Nasiru Ibrahim was stopped and detained. What should have been a short delay stretched into weeks.

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Two German engineers rode 50cc two-strokes across the Australian Outback for a year and a half.

Not a story about limitations — but what small bikes changed.

Bea & Helmut from Time to Ride.

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The Edge, the Motorcycle, and the Road Back

Rusty David’s story carries a familiar feeling — multi-day ride with no destination, where the pull to get back on the bike is hard to ignore.

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RIDER SKILLS: Four Lessons for Control and Confidence in Gravel — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW Gravel riding makes many motorcycle riders uneasy — not because the bike is out of control, but because it doesn’t behave the way pavement has trained us to expect. The front wanders, the bars move, b...

Gravel riding doesn’t have to feel uncertain.

Rider Skills episode breaks gravel riding into four lessons

Understand bike feedback
Build confidence

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Dec 2019: Lisa & Simon Thomas parked their motorcycles in the U.S. and flew home to the UK for what was supposed to be a short break.
Six years later, the bikes are still there.

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Potholes big enough to swallow a car. Water crossings that change without warning. Axle-deep mud. Laos riding demands attention.

New episode: Motorcycle Adventures in Laos — Rally for Rangers
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A thousand km up the Dempster, two riders fought fog and mud—wiping, cracking the visor, trying to see. The 3d wasn’t fighting fog, only mud. Same weather, totally different visibility.

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118: Why Most Riders Never Set Off on the Big Trip — and Maybe They Shouldn’t — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW This episode digs into why so many riders never take the big trip they dream about. What’s a real reason not to go — and what’s just fear or over-planning? Are we putting too much focus on the bike in...

RAW #118: Why most riders never set off on the big trip — and why that might actually be the right call for some.
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A flat tire off-road isn’t rare — it’s expected.
This week’s Rider Skills episode covers what you really need to know to fix one, and the bare-minimum kit Clinton Smout recommends. Full checklist in the show notes.

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DEEP TROUBLE: Hidden Threat Derails TET Moto Adventure — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW What started as a nine-day motorcycle trip through Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia took a sudden and serious turn. Riding the TET, Philipp Amann and his friends were well into their journey when one of t...

New Deep Trouble episode — Hidden Threat Derails TET Moto Adventure.
A 9-day ride through Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia takes a serious turn on the Trans Euro Trail.
Good intentions. Missed signs.
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One Motorbike, One Ride—No Going Home Until We Get Around the World — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW When the life she’d planned took an unexpected turn, Kathleen Perry had to find her footing again. The quiet retirement she had planned with her husband was gone when he passed away — so she reached b...

One motorbike. One ride. No going home until the world loop is done.
Kathleen Perry connects Prudhoe Bay, Ushuaia, and Nordkapp by motorcycle.

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Should You Downsize to a Small ADV Bike? — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW Thinking about downsizing your adventure bike? In this episode we test the waters with a Suzuki DR350—what it really takes to turn a lightweight, simple machine into a workable mini-adventure bike, th...

Is a smaller ADV bike the upgrade you actually need?
We break down the decision: where you ride, how you pack, and the trade-offs between highway comfort and off-road control.
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A ride through Spain.
Light rain. A gentle breeze.

But small choices add up — until one moment when it could have gone either way.

One sentence changed everything.

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RAW: Unpacking Motorcycle Adventure.
What makes a ride an “adventure”—risk, skills, distance, or mindset—how planning, group dynamics, expectations help or hurt.

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Ride modes = safety, control, and more fun—when you know how to use them. What they change, how to test, when to switch:
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If the time comes, would your riding gear really be there for you? And if it was, how much protection would it actually provide?

Find out on this week’s Adventure Rider Radio.

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New RAW: Handling Conflicts on the Road

What happens when riding partners clash? This roundtable digs into causes, communication, and knowing when to ride solo.

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What might be the most unusual motorcycle career you’ve ever heard of?
Damian Rowley’s story starts in the city and ends up spanning the world. Hear it on this week’s Adventure Rider Radio.

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Mistakes can lead to trouble — sometimes mistakes happen.
So how have these two avoided costly run-ins with bandits, the law, or ill-willed people for 15 years?
Luck or design?

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So often, we only hear one side.
This week, after “Abandoned on the Dalton” aired, we bring you the other rider’s story—direct from the Dalton Highway. Two riders, two versions, one road.

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Three simple principles. One clear path through any obstacle on your adventure motorcycle. Clinton Smout from SMART Performance Centre guides you through a Rider Skills episode designed to boost your confidence and control.

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DEEP TROUBLE: Too Focused to Turn Back — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW In the mountains of northern India, surrounded by snow, altitude, and uncertain roads, James Thomas and two other riders pressed on—confident they could make it through. But what unfolded wasn’t just ...

DEEP TROUBLE
Snow, altitude, and a GPS error in the Himalayas.
Three riders kept going—until it was too late to turn back.

New Deep Trouble episode on Adventure Rider Radio.
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Riding partner disappears
No call. No warning. Just gone on the Dalton Highway

Abandoned on the Dalton

It’s not always the terrain that changes everything.

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Maybe this is finally the answer.

Mark Changizi says motorcycles don’t just feel right—they are right, for the way our brains are built.

We explore the “motorcycle mind” on this week’s Adventure Rider Radio.

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Traction loss mid-crossing can shake any rider’s confidence.

This week's Adventure Rider Radio breaks it down clearly: 4 simple steps to safely conquer slippery terrain.

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112: Stuff They Don’t Tell You About Motorcycle Travel — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW Everyone loves to talk about the thrill of motorcycle travel, but no one warns you about the hard parts. The grind. The doubts. The aches you didn’t see coming. In this episode, we’re cutting through ...

Motorcycle travel isn’t always glamorous.

This month on RAW, we get into the weird, gritty, and unfiltered side of long-distance riding.
What surprised you the most?

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Riding Bhutan With Rally for Rangers — Motorcycle Podcasts Adventure Rider Radio & RAW Steve Zuschin first discovered Rally for Rangers at an ADV event, was drawn in by the mission, and unexpectedly found himself on a plane to Bhutan within weeks. He recounts the challenges of that firs...

Bhutan. Deep mud. Tight deadlines. Real impact.

In this week’s ARR, we ride with Rally for Rangers—delivering bikes to rangers who protect wild parks far off the grid.

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