It could be said that nothing forms a bond between people like overcoming adversity together.

And isn't that we often experience with adventure motorcycling?

Self-inflicted, of course, but nonetheless potent.

In today's story two riders

arrive for an organized back road ride only to discover they don't fit the

rider profile nor do they have the skills or the motorcycles for what the day had planned.

But teaming up and working through adversity together

forges a new friendship that'll last a lifetime.

I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. I'm Sam Manneke. Z Simon, and then Simon P,

Bill would do.

Heli, Ghe Perdos.

Joslin Snow, Shiley bombing,

Simon Thomas, Me, Sir John Johnson,

Jimmy Lewis. Oh, I'm Marissa Notchier,

and you're listening to Adventure Rider Radio. Radio. Radio.

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