Motorbikes

No guests on this weeks podcast. Instead Andy talks about the apps and maps they used on their Around the World in 800 Days adventure.

Motorcycle overlander and Adventure Travel Film Festival host, Lois Pryce, talks about her adventures in Iran.

Adventure biker Nevil Stow runs the website MotoExped and the 9 Minute Moto Film Festival. He’s travelled extensively through North America and Canada as well as riding around the world.

In this episode I chat with Shara Dillon who drove solo from the UK to South Africa in her Toyota Landcruiser. Ed Gill sits in, as we discuss overcoming major obstacles before you’ve even left and many other subjects.

Biker Graham Field became obsessed with the TV game show Deal or No Deal, to the point where he just had to appear on it. He won £5000 and declared he was going to ride his motorbike to Mongolia and that is just what he did.

Jacqui Furneaux, on her 50th birthday bought a 500cc Enfield Bullet in India and embarked on a 7-year adventure. She experienced broken bones, pirates and a few near death experiences.

Motorcyclist Steph Jeavons and I talk about travelling through all 7 continents, the challenges of India, the benefits of travelling on your own and what happens when you run out of money.

Heather Ellis and I talk about her book ‘Ubuntu’ which chronicles her solo overland journey through Africa on her Yamaha TT600 in the 1990’s. Starting with a light-bulb moment her story has twists and turns like the roads she rides.

Motorcyclist Ed Gill and 4x4 filmmaker Jon Beardmore discuss their adventures that took similar routes through Central Asia. We talk about “winging it”, lessons learnt, logistics, staying safe, politics and life on the road.

David Priddis talks about adventuring on 2 wheels and 4, broken clutches and being hunted down by armed border guards in Africa.

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