Part 1 - Sam Manicom, Traveler, Motorcyclist, Author & Grant Johnson on Bike Set-up from Horizons Unlimited

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2014

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Sam Manicom - Travler, Motorcyclist, Author, Writer, Speaker, Adventurer Sam Manicom spent eight years traveling the globe on his R90GS BMW motorcycle. He suffered through breakdowns, jail, court, ailments, injuries and had the time of his life doing it. Sam talks about his travels, retails us with incredible stories, talk about bike mods - what worked and what didn't and far more. Listen in to this two-part show. Bike Ergonomics Set-up by Grant Johnson of Horizons Unlimited Grant has also travelled the world but is likely best know for being the founder of Horizons Unlimited with his wife Susan. Grant and Susan help organize and host HU meets all over the world and at some of those meets, along with all the other demonstrations and informational talks, Grant does his demo on setting your bike up perfectly for you. On this show he runs through an audio version of his program to help you set up your bike to not only fit you but to feel the best it ever has.

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0:00.0	Have you ever bought a high-end bicycle?
0:02.0	Invariably if you're buying one you're going to buy it from if not private you're going to buy it from a bike shop because of the only places that sell expensive bicycles
0:09.8	But when you go in and you buy it and you make your purchase, one of the first things they're going to do with you is set that bicycle up for you, for you in particular.
0:18.0	It already came off the rack, they've already got it assembled there, all the levers on, the seats on the whole bit. It's imperative that they set it up for you.
0:25.6	They'll set the seat height, they'll set the handlebars up, they'll put your levers in the correct position.
0:30.4	Now ask yourself this, when you bought your last motorcycle, if you bought it at a
0:35.0	dealership, did they do the same setup for you with your motorcycle? Motorcycle?
0:41.0	Bicycle? Bicycle? These things have almost identical controls. So if they didn't, why didn't they?
0:48.0	On the show today we have Grant Johnson from Horizons Unlimited who is going to do a walk-through of how to set up your motorcycle
0:54.8	so that it will fit you like a glove.
0:57.6	And if you haven't done this already, this is going to be a beautiful episode for you.
1:02.1	We're also going to sit down with Sam Manacon, world traveler,
1:05.3	motorcyclist, adventurer, writer. He's got four books out, four amazing books. I've read them all.
1:10.7	And two of those books are in audio. We're going to talk
1:14.5	about Sam's bike choice. Also what he modified on his bike what worked and what
1:19.2	didn't work, which I think is crucial. It's the key learning points for us really to find these people who
1:24.7	have done it, they live with it, and they said, you know what, this mod just was not necessary.
1:29.9	Or this other one was absolutely fantastic and Sam has a load of information for us on that too.
1:34.8	You know where you are. You're listening to Adventure Rider Radio.
1:38.4	I'm Jim Martin. Stay with us. You're listening to Adventure Rider Radio.
2:03.0	Yeah, I don't know about you, but I like to listen to this sort of thing in the shop.
2:08.0	So why do you pack it all up?
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