Adventure Rider Radio is the original adventure motorcycle podcast, established in 2014 and now the world’s longest-running show dedicated to adventure motorcycling. It features in-depth conversations, real-world stories, and expert insight from the people who ride, explore, and shape the adventure motorcycling world.
Hosted by Jim Martin and released weekly, the show brings you experienced riders, trainers, industry professionals, and long-distance travelers sharing hard-earned lessons about riding skills, motorcycle travel, trip planning, bike setup, gear, and the realities of life on two wheels.
From remote expeditions to rider development and decision-making on the road, Adventure Rider Radio goes beyond surface-level talk to explore the thinking, preparation, and experience behind adventure motorcycling.
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The Edge, the Motorcycle and the Road Back (01:01:27)
There’s something about being on a motorcycle that just feels right — in ways that are hard to explain, but easy to recognize. Not long ago on the show, cognitive scientist Mark Changizi, author of Mo...
DEEP TROUBLE: The Day an SOS Was Ignored on the Pony Express Trail (01:29:51)
Adventure riding has a strange relationship with risk. We prepare, carry tools, research routes, ride with friends, and do everything we can to stack the odds in our favour on adventure motorcycle rid...
RIDER SKILLS: Four Lessons for Control and Confidence in Gravel (01:22:14)
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...
Riding Cambodia: When a Guided Motorcycle Trip Goes Off Course (00:44:35)
In 2003, Bryan Jones and his wife, Max, joined a guided motorcycle tour through Cambodia, expecting a challenging but well-run adventure motorcycle trip through jungles, villages, and remote roads. Wh...
More Than Miles: What Happens When Long-Term Motorcycle Travel Ends (01:07:32)
In December 2019, Lisa and Simon Thomas left their motorcycles and gear in the United States, planning to return after a short trip home to the UK. More than six years later, those bikes are still the...
DEEP TROUBLE: Rider Down Utah (01:04:11)
Cody Weber and a small group of experienced motorcycle riders set out on a planned day ride near Green River, Utah, traveling through canyon country, dry riverbeds, and remote desert terrain. The ride...
Expecting to Turn Back: A Motorcycle Journey That Changed Everything (00:58:43)
In Kevin Staples’ mind, there was always a point where the trip would end. He didn’t expect to get through. The goal wasn’t success — it was simply to go far enough to say he’d tried. To ride up to th...
ARR 2025 Special Message (00:02:31)
This week, we’re taking a brief pause before the next regular episode drops after Christmas. For many riders, this time of year isn’t about motion or miles—it’s about reflection. About looking back at...
RIDER SKILLS: Why Slow Speed Training Isn't Enough (00:58:20)
Slow-speed skills matter — especially on heavy adventure motorcycles. But if that’s where your training stops, there are real situations where it starts working against you. Because sometimes control ...
Motorcycle Adventures in Laos - Rally for Rangers (00:57:50)
Riding a motorcycle through Laos pushes both nerve and skill—potholes big enough to swallow a car, sudden water crossings, deep mud, and even the possibility of an elephant stepping onto the trail. A ...
Solutions for Fogging Motorcycle Helmet Visors (01:08:04)
Fogging is something most motorcycle riders just put up with — cracking the visor, wiping it, trying to manage it on the fly. But it’s more than an annoyance; it’s a visibility problem, and visibility...
DEEP TROUBLE: Fast Water Challenge Goes Wrong on Strata Florida (01:30:51)
On this episode of DEEP TROUBLE… two motorcyclists head to mid-Wales for a weekend of trail riding on the historic Strata Florida. It’s November, it’s wet, and Strata Florida is known for its water cr...
Pushing Miles: Two Riders, One Impossible Idea (01:26:50)
In 2022, long-distance riders Wendy Crockett and Ian McPhee set out to break a Guinness World Record for the longest motorcycle journey completed in a single country. Their plan: ride to all 50 U.S. s...
RIDER SKILLS: Motorcycle Tire Repair - What to Know and What to Pack (01:25:21)
This Rider Skills episode is a practical guide to roadside motorcycle tire repair for adventure and dual-sport riders. Instructor Clinton Smout shares hard-earned methods for plugging tubeless tires, ...
The Rider Who Won’t Stop (01:25:23)
Some riders are planners, while others seem to thrive amid chaos. Israel Gillette fits into that second group. He grew up in Tennessee, working in his father’s cabinet shop, and somehow that evolved i...
DEEP TROUBLE: Hidden Threat Derails TET Moto Adventure (01:34:26)
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...
One Motorbike, One Ride—No Going Home Until We Get Around the World (01:06:03)
When the life she’d planned took an unexpected turn, Kathleen Perry had to find her footing again. The quiet retirement she and her husband had imagined was gone when he passed away — so she reached b...
DEEP TROUBLE: Trapped in the Pyrenees (01:28:40)
Near the end of a month-long motorcycle ride through Spain, Mark and Lisa Schubert set out for what should’ve been an easy final day through the Pyrenees. But as they climbed higher, a mild forecast u...
Should You Downsize to a Small ADV Bike? (00:53:56)
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...
ADV-X: Canada’s World Class Motorcycle Adventure Experience (01:10:43)
ADV-X in Canada turned out to be far more than just another riding event. By the end of the first day, faces were caked in dust, grins were everywhere, and the sense of camaraderie was undeniable. Fro...
RIDER SKILLS: Mastering Ride Modes (01:16:36)
Modern motorcycles aren’t just machines anymore—they’re equipped with advanced technology. Ride-by-wire means your throttle hand communicates with a processor instead of a cable, and that computer con...
The Truth Your Riding Gear Won’t Tell You (01:25:06)
We all choose our riding gear for comfort, style, and weather protection — trusting that if it’s sold as motorcycle gear, it must also keep us safe in a crash. But how much of that trust is based on p...
What Carries a Motorcycle Trip Isn't Just the Plan (01:23:18)
When everything is perfectly organized—routes mapped, fuel stops planned, meals and beds guaranteed—it feels effortless. But the truth is, no matter how tidy the plan, the real world always gets a vot...
Everything Adventure - Chris Birch (01:04:58)
Chris Birch returns to Adventure Rider Radio with insights from his brand-new Everything Adventure video training series. This is a deep dive into how adventure riding and training have evolved in the...
From London Traffic to Global Motorcycle Rider (01:31:58)
Damian (Demon) Rowley spent 35 years riding motorcycles professionally in London—first as a courier, then as one of Virgin’s elite “limo bike” riders, trusted to ferry celebrities and executives throu...
