RIDER SKILLS: Total Control on Gravel

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Clinton Smout from SMART Adventures returns to ARR’s exclusive Rider Skills to talk about one of the most feared riding conditions we encounter on the street, especially for street riders - gravel. He talks about why gravel is feared, if it should be and what you can do about it to make riding gravel easy and even fun. Photos and links related to this episode can be found in the show notes. Adventure Rider Radio and RAW are the longest-running adventure motorcycle and travel podcasts and we remain committed to bringing you new and exciting episodes every Thursday. Never miss an episode, be sure to FOLLOW the show on your favourite podcast app. Have a show idea or suggestion, send us an email. We'd love to hear from you! If you can, we’d love to get your support, please visit the Support page on our website. Thank you for listening!

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0:00.0	I suspect for many on the list of the most terrifying things we could encounter or maybe experience in life right after public speaking would be riding a motorcycle
0:15.4	through gravel.
0:16.9	And most of us can understand why, because from riding along asphalt with such finesse and control
0:21.8	that you get from that to where the gravel begins is kind of like two different worlds
0:26.5	A world of control and predictability to a world of uncertainty and unpredictability in which the bike can take on another
0:35.0	personality and you start to wonder who is this bike that I'm riding. But there
0:39.7	are those riders out there that love gravel that enjoy bombing down a loose gravel
0:45.9	road that get a kick out of sliding through a gravel corner. So what is it that
0:50.8	those riders that enjoy gravel know that others don't?
0:55.0	Well, that's what we're learning today on our exclusive rider skills program.
1:01.0	I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, you know. I'm Sam Mannequin.
1:23.0	Sam Manicke,
1:26.0	Sam Monnet, Sam must,
1:27.0	then Simon, baby, has a good pair of stuff.
1:29.0	Jarsal and snow.
1:30.0	Simon Thomas,
1:31.0	He's Sir Jarvis, Sir Charles,
1:32.0	Jimi Lewis, Ram Johnson, Jimmy Lewis,
1:33.0	Grand Javius, Chris Bitch,
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