Ep. 047: Nathan Millward - Adventure Motorcycle Travel
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2015
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Nathan Millward decided he didn't want to fly home to London on a boring commercial airliner. So with just 3 days of preparation, Nathan set off to ride from Sydney, Australia back to London, England on a motorcycle. However this was not your typical large displacement adventure touring motorcycle, Nathan did this 9-month, 23,000 mile trip through 18 countries on a 105cc postal carrier bike. As if that weren't enough, he later decided to ride that same bike 8000 miles across the United States from New York to Alaska. Listen in to hear about his fantastic adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | getting impacted by two buses at the same time when I had the side of me at high speed, which in Indonesia, which scared the life out of me. One going one way and one going the other with me, 40 miles an hour, and the other bus came the other way. No choice but to squeeze into the bus I was overtaken. And luckily, I had met very industrial pannier frames, which took the brunt of the impact to be honest and protecting my legs but |
| 0:21.1 | they really took deep gouges out the trucks the coaches going in opposite directions that yeah |
| 0:26.6 | that was probably the gnarliest heart in my mouth moment Episode 47, Nathan Millward, Adventure Motorcycle Travel. |
| 0:50.2 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:53.4 | Brought to you by 180 TAC. |
| 0:55.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:09.3 | Thanks for tuning into another adventure sports podcast episode. |
| 1:13.3 | This is your host, Travis Parsons. |
| 1:15.0 | Our guest today is Nathan Millward. |
| 1:17.0 | Nathan needed to get back to England from Australia, but didn't really like taking |
| 1:20.7 | the conventional way of flying. |
| 1:22.3 | So he picked up an old postal carrier bike, and with only a few days of preparation, |
| 1:26.8 | launched out on his journey home, |
| 1:28.2 | which took him through 18 countries covering 23,000 miles. |
| 1:32.6 | Nathan, welcome to the program. |
| 1:34.6 | Hi, Travis. How are you, mate? |
| 1:35.9 | Well? |
| 1:36.5 | I'm doing very well. Thanks for asking. |
| 1:38.9 | So give us a little bit of background on why you were in Australia and needed to get back to England. |
| 1:42.8 | What kicked off this whole idea of getting this bike and riding it all the way back? I guess desperation as much |
| 1:50.8 | as anything, really. I had been in Australia for nine months, just working, kind of cashing |
| 1:57.3 | hand while I was on a toy's visa, visa actually had been gone there for a girl and |
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