Long-Distance Motorcycle Travel: Saying Yes to the Unknown
Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast
Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
As we celebrate 12 years of Adventure Rider Radio motorcycle podcast, we're bringing back a story that still resonates today. Drawn together by motorcycles and a shared curiosity about the world, Maryna Matthew and Paul Knibbs left behind the security of established careers to pursue a life of adventure. Their journey is a powerful reminder that some of life's greatest opportunities begin with a single decision: to stop waiting and simply say yes.
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Since 2014, Adventure Rider Radio has shared adventure motorcycle travel stories, Rider Skills, Deep Trouble episodes, tech and gear features, and conversations with riders from around the world. New episodes of ARR are released every Thursday, with new episodes of RAW released monthly on the 21st.
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| 0:00.0 | 12 years. That's how long we've been making Adventure Rider Radio. 12 years of motorcycle stories from all |
| 0:08.1 | around the world, listened to by riders in almost every single country, and it's still the most |
| 0:13.2 | listened to Adventure Motorcycle show of its kind. Rider skills, deep trouble, Adventure Rider |
| 0:18.9 | Radio Raw, Southward Chronicles, stories of riders |
| 0:21.9 | crossing continents, getting into trouble, figuring things out, and finding what motorcycles |
| 0:26.5 | can open up for us in life. And over those years, we've heard from so many listeners about what |
| 0:31.5 | Adventure Rider Radio and Raw have meant to them. Many have told us that it's actually changed |
| 0:36.4 | their lives for the better. Some have said it |
| 0:38.8 | helps help them get through some difficult times. Others say it gets them through every day at work, |
| 0:43.8 | these long days at work. Others have said that they gave them the courage to buy a motorcycle, |
| 0:48.5 | ride somewhere they never thought they could, take a trip, or just look at their own life a little |
| 0:52.7 | differently. Those are some of the things |
| 0:55.5 | that have always fueled us for doing Adventure Rider Radio because Adventure Rider Radio was never about |
| 1:01.0 | motorcycles. It's about what motorcycles open up for us. That doesn't mean that everyone wants to sell |
| 1:07.3 | everything, quit their job and ride around the world. Most people don't. Most people have |
| 1:11.6 | their own version of adventure, their own responsibilities, their own limits, their own way of doing |
| 1:16.4 | things. But there's something really powerful about hearing what's possible. You can listen to |
| 1:22.8 | someone cross a continent by motorcycle and never want to do the exact same thing yourself, |
| 1:27.2 | but that story |
| 1:28.3 | can still move something in you. It can make you think about a ride you've been putting off, |
| 1:33.1 | a place you've wanted to see, maybe a skill you've wanted to learn, or just a decision you've been |
| 1:37.6 | circling for far too long. That's what stories do for us. They open doors. They show us what |
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