Grant Johnson from Horizons Unlimited - Long Distance Fuel Tanks - ADV Bike Choice - Mods for any ADV Motorcycle

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🗓️ 21 July 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Horizons Unlimited - Grant Johnson Probably the largest motorcycle adventure website in the world, HU draws in travelers from around the globe both reading and writing. All the well known moto-travelers are there as well as many not so known but very experienced. Newbies learn and everyone exchanges information on overland travel. Founder Grant Johnson talks with ARR's Jim Martin about HU, adventure morocycle choice, modification for adventure, computerized bikes for RTW trips, long range gas tanks and more. Show Links http://www.horizonsunlimited.com http://www.ironbutt.com

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Grant Johnson from Horizons Unlimited.com, and you're on Adventure Rider Radio. It wasn't that long ago that if you wanted some information about a country or an area that you wanted to visit,
0:26.5	you probably have to head to the library, which means actually leaving the house.
0:30.5	Or if you were lucky, you had a set of very expensive and cumbersome
0:34.2	encyclopedias that took up a dozen feet a shelf space and weighed probably a
0:38.1	couple hundred pounds. You'd have to find the index book, you'd search the topic,
0:41.6	then find the volume that had the topic in it, and then search through
0:44.7	that. And in the end, well, you'd have very little, to be honest. Nowadays, we have Google, and in
0:50.0	a millisecond, you get a list of instantly available information for even the most obscure
0:54.5	topics.
0:55.5	Today, we will meet Grant Johnson, a man who played an important part in the transition
1:00.4	from analog to digital, by developing a website that acts as a sort of a digital repository of motorcycle travel information and in the end far more and although Grant has completed his own 11 yearthe-world trip with his wife Susan aboard their
1:15.0	BMW R-80G-S.
1:17.2	He has become an expert through the riders that have contributed information to the website
1:21.5	he owns, Horizons Unlimited. Today we talk with Grant about the website,
1:26.4	his choice for adventure bikes, and a lot more. Oh, are you planning to buy a long-range
1:31.4	gas tank for your motorcycle?
1:33.0	Well, you might want to just wait until you listen to the show.
1:35.8	You can change your mind.
1:37.0	I'm Jim Martin.
1:38.0	This is Adventure Rider Radio.
1:39.7	Stay with us. Oh, You're listening to Adventure Rider Radio. medium. Oh, yeah. Iron But what do you think of when you hear that? Well it's the IBA, the Iron But
2:39.8	Association and it's an association of long-distance riders is what it is.
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