Ep. 077: Ned Suesse - Dakar Rally & Doubletake Mirrors
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2015
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ned Suesse has a lot going one at any given time, but riding the 2012 Dakar Rally and inventing the Doubletake dual-sport mirror have got to be some of his coolest accomplishments. Listen in as Ned and Travis talk about these two subjects.
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| 0:00.0 | But about five minutes later, realized that I'd forgotten to change my tire. |
| 0:03.4 | And my tire was completely round. |
| 0:06.3 | And so the whole afternoon, I got to, everywhere that I turned the throttle at all, the bike just spun up and got no drive. |
| 0:15.3 | And it was kind of one of those, like, I got to just think about my mistake, oh, five or six times a minute for the next few hours. |
| 0:24.3 | And, you know, that's one of those moments when you just, it's easy to blame yourself and to get |
| 0:29.7 | upset. And then you realize, I'm riding a motorcycle around Italy. Like, I really don't have |
| 0:35.6 | anything to be upset about. |
| 0:54.6 | Episode 75, the Dakar Rally with Ned Seas. |
| 0:59.7 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 1:02.6 | Brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 1:04.2 | Get out there and have some fun. Thank you. Welcome to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. This is Travis. Today I have Ned |
| 1:21.1 | Sees on the line with me. Ned competed in the 2012 Dakar Rally, which is a 5,500 mile off-road race in South America. |
| 1:29.7 | He's also the inventor of the well-known and virtually indestructible double-take mirror for dual-sport motorcycles. |
| 1:35.9 | He also owns that company. |
| 1:37.6 | Ned, welcome. |
| 1:38.8 | Hi. |
| 1:39.4 | It's nice to speak with you, Travis. |
| 1:41.3 | Yeah, good to have you. |
| 1:42.7 | So, Ned, take some time and tell us about how you got |
| 1:45.8 | into this whole thing about riding the Dakar rally. I mean, this is a serious race. I mean, |
| 1:51.7 | it doesn't, I don't even think it compares to the Baja 1000. How would, how did you really kind of, |
| 1:58.1 | how does this all kick off? You know, I, um, I think when I was in college, I remember going over to a friend's house |
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