Aaron Steinmann - A Mostly Unplanned Journey

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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With a trip around the world in its final months, Aaron Steinmann wakes up one morning in a campground in Australia to find the KTM motorcycle he loved and planned on keeping, gone. Now back in New Zealand, Aaron reflects on his adventures as he travelled around the world over the past four years on his KTM 500 EXC. A mostly unplanned journey, he remembers the connections he’s made and the kindness of the motorcycle community and locals he met along the way. More motorcycle travel episodes available on Adventure Rider Radio at adventureriderradio.com. Want to help out? Rate and review us on iTunes or on your favourite podcast app, tell your family, friends, riding buddies or club about ARR. Check out our other show ARR RAW, round table talks about motorcycles and travel.Subscribe to both shows to listen to inspiring and interesting guests, learn from professional riding instructors and industry experts about all things motorcycle. Get an ARR sticker(postage included) with a $10 donation. Link on our website. Have a comment? Go to the episode show notes on our website and have your say at the bottom of the page. Adventure Rider Radio is now the most listened to motorcycle podcast in the world, and we thank you for your support!

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0:00.0	You can't imagine the tragedy here. Aaron Steinman wakes up in the morning, he's
0:04.8	camped near Air's Rock, he crawls out of his tent and looks around. His bike is
0:10.0	gone. A K-T-M 500-E-C that he's ridden around the world for several years at this point.
0:17.0	He's almost home and the bike has been stolen in the night.
0:21.6	Now in case you don't know what a K-T-M 500 E-C is, it's a type of bike that most people would refer to as a dual sport bike at best, maybe a large dirt bike on steroids, but very few people would look at it as any sort of
0:34.8	travel bike at all but Aaron wrote it all those miles all those days through
0:40.0	thick and thin and he was convinced it would be the bike he would never let go he
0:44.2	would never sell now nearing the end of his adventure he wakes up and it's gone.
0:48.6	Well we're going to talk with Aaron about his trip about about the bike, and about what happened at Air's Rock.
0:54.8	All this coming up. My name's Jim Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio.
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