Good Things Come in Small Packages: Small Adventure Motorcycles | Into Iraq with Graham Field

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🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Motorcycle Manufacturers Offer Smaller ADV Bikes Recently, Honda, Kawasaki, BMW and Suzuki have unveiled their new small adventure bikes. In a bid to entice women, younger and smaller riders, the manufacturers are offering motorcycles that are lighter and with a smaller price tag. Carl Parker, publisher of ADVMoto magazine talks about the new adventure bikes that were recently shown at motorcycles shows. Austin Vince, an advocate for small cc bikes for adventure travel, shares his thoughts on these smaller adventure motorcycles. The smaller 2017 ADV bike line-up includes: Honda CRF250 Rally Kawasaki Versys-X 300 BMW G310 GS Suzuki V-Strom 250 Carl Parker - Publisher of ADVMotoWebsite: www.adventuremotorcycle.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ADVMotoMagAustin Vince Website: http://www.austinvince.com/Adventure Travel Film Festival: http://www.adventuretravelfilmfestival.com/ Into Iraq- Graham Field Taken from his book called Ureka, Graham Field tells the story of his efforts to get in to Mosul, Iraq. Graham Field is a motorcycle adventure author from the UK, now living in Bulgaria. The author of three books In Search of Greener Grass, Ureka and Different Natures. Books are available for individual purchase or as a replica pannier box set.Website: http://grahamfield.co.uk/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Graham-Field-Motorcycle-Travel-Author-196758197110476/ More of our best motorcycle podcast episode here. Show Sponsors: Support the show sponsors that help bring ADVENTURE RIDER RADIO to you. More information about contacting our sponsors can be found here.Max BMW MotorcyclesBestrest ProductsAerostichGreen Chile Adventure GearCamel ADV ProductsIMS Products Sound Restoration: http://themixroom.tv/Music: www.audionautix.com

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0:00.0	So you may have heard about the interesting new motorcycles that were unveiled at the recent
0:13.0	motorcycle shows. There has been some new additions to the adventure
0:16.5	motorcycle lineup for new motorcycles and strangely enough a number of those
0:20.3	have been small displacement bikes designed for us adventure motorcyclists.
0:24.8	So what's happening here?
0:25.8	I mean, we've all watched the iconic adventure motorcycles get larger and larger displacements
0:30.8	as if each manufacturer was racing to see who would produce the largest
0:34.0	displacement monster adventure motorcycle.
0:37.2	But like a flock of starlings sweeping waves through the sky, it seems the manufacturers
0:41.6	have all at once, unison stop flying in one
0:45.3	direction and headed off in another so is that it are we heading off in a new
0:49.6	direction now towards smaller adventure bikes is the race on to see whom will develop the smallest
0:55.7	displacement adventure bike suitable for world travel? Well, coming up we're going to have Carl
1:00.9	Parker, the publisher of ADV Motor Magazine.
1:03.8	We're going to have Austin Vince, filmmaker, and Small Displacement Travel Enthusiists.
1:07.7	And we're going to talk about tiny adventure bikes, in particular, the new ones, and what does it mean if anything to our market.
1:14.1	We're also going to have a great story from Graham Field as he attempts to visit
1:17.4	Moses in Iraq and you do not want to miss that story. My name's Jim Martin
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