Thumping to Nine Iron Butt Rides with Spencer Anderson (192)
Riding 1,000 miles in 24 hours isn’t really all that impressive any more. I mean … I did one in about 21 hours and even had to backtrack almost 100 miles because a highway got …
Category: Touring
Aaron Pufal, Electric Cannonball Pioneer (189)
“Nobody’s ever done it,” thought Aaron Pufal. “So I’m gonna do it!” “It” in this case is set the first record for riding an electric motorcycle (a LiveWire!) from coast to coast as fast as …
Staci Wilt: Moto-Camper, Media Maven and Much More (187)
There are people who travel by motorcycle, and then there’s Staci Wilt. Staci started her motorcycle touring life atop a Sportster—not a motorcycle widely known for a huge amount of space in which to pack …
Out of Office Reminder: Wayback Machine in Action!
I’ll be on the road for most of June and while I’ll be gathering discussions for future episodes, I won’t have my little production studio on the road with me. As a result, I won’t …
Heather Lea is Back – and she brought a book! (179)
The last time Heather Lea was on the show was way back in Episode 119. Now she’s back and the book she said she was writing is done and published! Find out the whole saga—of …
Touring two-up with Will and Mae Andalora (178)
“Let’s go on a 5,000-mile trip this summer on my 45-year-old motorcycle,” said dad Will Andalora to daughter Mae in the spring of 2025. “That sounds like a fantastic idea,” said Mae, and the planning …
David Jenni, co-founder of Enduristan (177)
Imagine taking a long trip and realizing early on that your luggage sucked. Most of us would just be angry or replace it. David Jenni thought “I can make something better than this” and then …
Louisa Swaden, the Existential Biker (175)
If you’re going to have an existential crisis, Louisa Swaden might be the rider to have near you when it happens. We discuss her riding, her philosophy and her recent book, The Stoic Rider. It’s …
Kirsten Talken-Spaulding: Motorcycling Park Ranger! (164)
We all heard about cuts to U.S. government agencies in the first quarter of 2025. NO THAT’S NOT WHERE WE’RE GOING WITH THIS! We had questions about how those cuts affected the National Park Service, …
Peter Egan is back – and flying! (literally and figuratively) (163)
We all know Peter Egan, the renowned motorcycle journalist. He wrote about cars, too, for a long time. Now he’s got a new book about a motorcycle-like journey he and his wife took in a …