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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 171: A 16,000 Mile Motorcycle Adventure to South America with Ben & Ken Kriederman

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6580 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Father and son team, Ben & Ken Kriederman spent over 3 months and more than 16,000 miles riding their BMW R1200GS Adventures from Boulder, CO down through Central and South America. Ben is the owner of House of Motorrad in Boulder where they rent adventure motorcycles as well as service bikes from all makes. Check out the Adventuring South blog about their trip at the link below.

 

www.houseofmotorrad.com

 

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when we were driving through Guatemala, and we had been riding the motorcycles for a while,

0:05.8

and really got a good feel for them after a few miles, you know, that day.

0:10.7

And we had just gone across the river on a little pontoon boat.

0:14.7

We put both motorcycles on, and the boat was small enough so that when the bike went on to the boat,

0:20.3

it went down a little bit. So it was a

0:23.7

pretty small boat to get across the river. And then on the other side of the river, there was

0:28.0

just beautiful pavement. And it was dry and it was sunny. And I was just really feeling the flow

0:34.1

that day. And I probably carved turns and scrape more pegs that day

0:38.9

faster than I had ever done and it was it was effortless. This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180 tack.

1:05.6

Get out there and have some fun.

1:09.8

Episode 171, a three-month 16,000-mile motorcycle adventure from Boulder, Colorado, down

1:15.9

through Central and South America with Ben and Ken Kreterman.

1:26.9

Welcome back to another adventure sports podcast episode.

1:29.9

This is your host, Travis.

1:31.5

So today on with me are Ben and Ken Krederman.

1:34.7

They are father and son.

1:36.7

So Ken Krederman being the father and Ben Krederman being the son.

1:40.6

These guys decided in November of 2012 to take a couple of BMWR, 1200 GS adventures down from Boulder, Colorado, all the way down to Oshawaia in South America.

1:53.7

Ben, you've heard his ad on our show.

1:56.6

He's the owner and operator of House of Motorad in Boulder, Colorado, where they service and rent motorcycles from many makes.

2:04.7

They have a great shop over there, and we'll talk about that a little bit later.

2:07.7

But to get started, we want to see what got these guys into their riding careers and ultimately what it is that sparked their interest to ride motorcycles down to South America.

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