Circling Back to the Motorcycle: Patrick Cheever

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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When Patrick Cheever was about seven years old his dad brought home a moped, and Patrick thought it was a dream machine. He racked up mile after mile riding the moped back and forth in his driveway and around the yard. And that sealed it for him, he fell in love with riding motorcycles. And so it continued, riding, fixing, buying and selling, until something happened, not to Patrick but to people close to him. It made him question the safety of riding a motorcycle, so he walked away from the internal combustion engine and began riding his mountain bike because it was safer, or so he thought. In hindsight, he realized that he had never really let motorcycling go, and this is his story of leaving and then returning to the motorcycle. Photos and links for this episode can be found on our website at adventureriderradio.com. Adventure Rider Radio is the original and longest running adventure motorcycle and travel podcast and has been produced weekly since 2014! You can count on us to be there for you every Thursday with a new and exciting episode, we never miss a week.

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0:00.0	Patrick Cheever started early. When he was about seven years old his dad brought home a moped
0:06.0	which to Patrick was the dream machine. He rode the wheels off that moped, racking up mile after mile, riding back and forth in the driveway and around his yard.
0:15.9	That sealed it.
0:16.9	Patrick was in love with riding motorcycles.
0:19.5	And so continued, riding, fixing, buying, selling, until something happened, not to him, but to people close to him.
0:27.0	And what happened made him sort of questioned mortality and the safety of him riding a motorcycle.
0:34.3	So he walked away.
0:36.0	He walked away from the internal combustion engine and began riding a mountain bike because it was
0:42.2	safer or was it in hindsight he never really let the
0:48.0	motorcycle go this is a story about falling in love with motorcycles, then walking away from motorcycles,
0:54.8	and finally returning back to the motorcycle.
0:57.8	This story has all the elements you can relate to, as well as a mysterious disappearing guru, some personal demons, a cycling wake-up call,
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