Ep. 561: Earning a Living Through a Love of Adventure Motorcycles - Revisited - Eric Hougen
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In 1992 Eric Hougen started making motorcycle luggage in his spare bedroom in the Colorado mountains. Little did he know, that company would grow to sell motorcycle gear all over the world.
Today his Wolfman Motorcycle Luggage sells their gear at more than 150 motorcycle dealers across the U.S., Australia, Europe, across Asia, Canada, Mexico, Chile, etc.
Do you have an idea to create something you're passionate about? Maybe you'll learn something for your own journey on today's episode.
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| 0:00.0 | I landed on both my kneecaps at about five feet near in hard sand. |
| 0:04.9 | I had no cartilage. |
| 0:06.7 | I shattered the cartilage behind my right kneecap. |
| 0:10.5 | So I spent about seven hours in the ER and there, you know, it's like I have nowhere to go. |
| 0:18.5 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:24.6 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. Hey folks, hope you're having a good week so far. |
| 0:44.8 | Thank you for all the folks that are sharing, that are telling friends about the show, family about the show, that are sharing it on social media because it's making a huge difference. |
| 0:54.5 | We are killing it this month. |
| 0:56.4 | So let's keep that going. |
| 0:58.2 | Tell somebody about it this week. |
| 1:00.7 | Keep up the good work. |
| 1:02.0 | You're the reason the show's happening, so thank you. |
| 1:05.0 | Today's throwback Thursday episodes with Travis. |
| 1:07.6 | He's one of the old hosts, and it's from March 2016. |
| 1:12.3 | But it's about motorcycles and Eric Hogan, who found this company, Wolfman, motorcycle luggage, and also his love for |
| 1:18.5 | motorcycle touring. And yeah, I hope you enjoy. It's something I'm definitely starting to get into, |
| 1:24.0 | so I'm pretty interested to listen to it. I've actually never listened to this episode. |
| 1:28.6 | Today's sponsor is CS Instant Coffee. You know, you've heard their name before. They're the makers of |
| 1:34.1 | 100% Arabica Instant Coffee and compostable packages. And I actually just went on a backpacking |
| 1:40.6 | trip and took some with me. It was crucial because I need coffee. Not a whole lot of things I need in this world, but I need coffee. So I brought some with me. It was crucial because I need coffee. |
| 1:44.8 | Not a whole lot of things I need in this world, but I need coffee. |
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