Motorcycle Adventures in Laos - Rally for Rangers
Adventure Rider Radio
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Riding a motorcycle through Laos pushes both nerve and skill—potholes big enough to swallow a car, sudden water crossings, deep mud, and even the possibility of an elephant stepping onto the trail. A team from Rally for Rangers, led by Steve Zuschin, recently tackled these extreme conditions as they crossed Laos to deliver new motorcycles to frontline Rangers. The ride blended rugged, technical adventure motorcycling with a mission that supports the protection of threatened wilderness. Steve talks about why these demanding routes keep pulling him back and what it takes to ride some of the toughest terrain in Southeast Asia.
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| 0:00.0 | I once heard a joke about a local place. |
| 0:03.6 | Well, you could probably apply this to an area near you. |
| 0:06.2 | Everyone seems to have one. |
| 0:07.7 | But it goes like this. |
| 0:09.0 | What do you do when you ride up to a pothole? |
| 0:12.3 | Answer, honk your horn in case someone's in it. |
| 0:16.1 | And that's not far from the riding conditions that Steve Zushin and the rally for Rangers team found in Laos, |
| 0:21.9 | long days on small Kawasaki KLX-150s, roads that sometimes turned into rutted clay and worse, |
| 0:28.6 | potholes deep enough you could really lose something in, and traffic that followed its own |
| 0:33.4 | rhythm and logic more than the rules of the road. They'd come to make a delivery and getting there |
| 0:40.5 | turned into its own kind of expedition. But that was one of the things that made the ride |
| 0:45.1 | worth signing up for to begin with. Their destination was a remote protected area in Laos, |
| 0:51.2 | a place that you don't reach quickly and you don't reach without forming a story |
| 0:55.5 | or two along the way. I'm Jim Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. |
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