Chris Birch - Life Long Motorcycle Addict

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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When adventure motorcycles first started to show up on the scene, many top off-road riders were drawn to them, and although they found that they underperformed compared to the bikes they were used to, they worked to invent new skills and techniques to be able to efficiently ride these oversized bikes, so that they could be ride them like it appeared they should be ridden… off-road. Riding instructor, Chris Birch, or you may know him as the KTM 1190 guy, is one of those off-road riders. 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! 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.

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0:00.0	Adventure Motorcycling hasn't really been around all that long. In fact the term itself,
0:05.0	Adventure Motorcycling, was coined in the late 1990s by a fellow named Chris Scott.
0:10.0	He's also the author of the Adventure Motorcycle Handbook.
0:13.0	Since then, Adventure Motorcycling has kind of exploded.
0:17.0	And I propose that it probably wouldn't have happened if not for a couple of reasons of which we're going to talk about today but one of those is the
0:24.4	development of special riding techniques that allows us to maneuver adventure bikes in ways that were kind of
0:30.3	unthinkable before and a lot of times it's those professional riders
0:34.4	that you see on videos doing amazing things
0:37.1	with large adventure bikes that are beyond most people's
0:39.6	ability to do.
0:40.9	But those riders are the ones that have come up with the skills that teach the rest of us how to do what we do with our adventure bikes. And today we have one of those riders on. Chris Burch from New Zealand. Chris is well known for his incredible racing wins under the KTM banner.
0:56.2	He's won some of the toughest races in the world.
0:59.2	From Trials to Heart Enduro.
1:01.3	He's an eight times National Enduro champion of New Zealand.
1:04.2	Several times he's won the Extreme Enduro roof of Africa, Red Bull Romaniacs.
1:09.8	He's run the Dakar and got second place in his class there.
1:14.0	All this over 18 years of racing.
1:17.0	Chris now spends his time traveling around the world
1:20.0	running coaching clinics for adventure riders and he's also one of
1:24.2	kt. M's highest profile ambassadors. All that coming up today. I'm Jim Martin,
1:29.6	this is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you.
1:34.4	I'm Simon Manneke.
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