We can buy new tires and get better traction. We can buy better foot pegs and get more control.

A great helmet, jacket, pants, all those things that improve our ride and make us feel better.

All these things can be purchased with our hard-earned money. But no matter how much

money you have, no matter who you know, no matter what your influence is, or even how you

embrace today's incredible technology, there's still a few things that you

have to do on your own, that you cannot pay someone for, even if you could find somebody

to do it, even if you had the money to do it. And one of those is physical fitness. And I think for the most part, physical

fitness is often somewhat disconnected from riding, at least in thought process.

Yet the fact is, the more physically fit you are, the better you will ride, the better

rider you will become, and it could even peel back a few years if you're one of those people

that are feeling the effects of aging.

Bill Jurgu is pushing 68 years old this year and not long ago he noticed that he was

slipping, his physical fitness was slipping and he thought, maybe that's just the time in life,

you know, where you've got to reined it in a little bit

and just accept the fact that he's not going to be able to do some of the things

that he was able to do, maybe just a couple of years ago. About the time Bill was thinking this, he was riding his

motorcycle up a steep hill with a group instructing riding, and a rock caught his toe.

What followed was far more than he counted on,

but it came with a wake-up call,

a good one.

He's going to share that with us today.

I'm Jim Martin, this is the Adventure Rider Radio.

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