A Scientist, a Pillion, a Racer and a Long Distance Rider: On Staying Alert
Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast
Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to go. Well a few weeks back we did an episode on a fellow named Bob Lily and Bob had |
| 0:20.1 | fallen in love with long distance riding in particular the Iron But Rally and one of the |
| 0:24.3 | things that we discussed with Bob was fatigue and dealing with fatigue as a long distance |
| 0:28.6 | rider because that's really the main problem with long distance riding is fatigue |
| 0:32.2 | other than maybe |
| 0:33.0 | stopping to fuel your bike and after doing that episode I sort of got to |
| 0:37.6 | thinking about that whole long distance riding and fatigue and it made me think about a friend of mine from many years ago. |
| 0:45.0 | I got my license for motorcycle riding when I was quite young and a few years later |
| 0:50.1 | my good buddy Greg also got his license and he began to ride a sport bike. |
| 0:55.0 | About the same time he moved away and so he's a couple hours away and what he |
| 1:00.3 | would do is he would use this sport bike as, you know, an interesting and fuel efficient way to zip back and forth between his new home and his old home to visit his old friends. |
| 1:09.0 | About a two hour ride from one place to the other. |
| 1:12.0 | And basically the road that was the most |
| 1:13.9 | sensible to take was the highway because every other road would just take so |
| 1:17.6 | long. This highway was a multi-lane highway, not real developed, but |
| 1:21.8 | where it went through the developed areas, there's a couple of developed areas. It went into, you know, four lanes in either direction, but most of it was two lanes in either direction with a meridian down the center. And it's basically a boring ride. It was a relatively long, straight highway with few opportunities to stop. None really, because there were no roadside pullouts. There were no gas stations or coffee shops. If you wanted to stop, you just |
| 1:44.3 | pulled over on the side of the road. If you wanted to go to a coffee shop or you needed fuel, |
| 1:48.0 | you had to actually get off the highway and go find a gas station or coffee shop down another road. |
| 1:54.0 | So one night he's on his way home. |
| 1:57.0 | He's riding his motorcycle. |
| 1:59.0 | He fell asleep and he crashed. |
| 2:01.0 | He was turning on to the off-ramp and he just rode straight off the road. |
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