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Aussies Overland -Shirley Hardy-Rix and Brian Rix Addicted to Moto-Travel

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of Kilometres of travel, all over the world and Brian and Shirley can't stop.

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0:00.0

My name is Brian Ricks. I'm a retired police officer.

0:07.0

So we're mainly homicide and crime investigation. After 36 years, I now ride my motorbikes as long and as often as I can.

0:21.1

And I'm Shirley Hardie Wicks, Brian's wife. I don't ride, I'm opinion and I'm very happy on the back of the motorcycle. Oh, You're listening to Adventure Rider Radio.

0:50.0

Welcome to another episode of Adventure Rider Radio. My name's Jim Martin.

0:57.0

Well, we're going to deal with travel addiction today.

1:00.0

We're going to talk with Brian Ricks and Shirley Hardy Ricks, who are most certainly addicted

1:06.1

to travel on their motorcycle.

1:08.8

We got a good one for you.

1:10.1

Stay with us. Today we're talking with Brian Ricks and Shirley Hardy Ricks, who are both from the

1:19.8

land of Oz and are clearly addicted to traveling by motorcycle and after hundreds of thousands of kilometers

1:25.9

they're still doing it. Two up. Today I've caught them at their home in Melbourne Australia.

1:31.5

Welcome to Adventure Rider Radio.

1:33.0

Yeah, thanks, Jim.

1:34.0

That's appreciated.

1:35.0

Well, let's start off by talking about your travels.

1:38.0

You gave some indication there, Brian, of what you're into.

1:41.0

Clearly, you're severely addicted to riding a

1:44.8

motorcycle and I applaud you for that. Give us an overview of your travels. Okay

1:50.4

well first of all I've been riding bikes since I was about, I was more the first one at 12

1:56.0

and I've written the Outback and all the country areas in Victoria.

2:00.0

And as I went through my career, I was through the ranks and became a homicide investigator,

2:05.3

homicide officer in charge.

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