Riding Cambodia: When a Guided Motorcycle Trip Goes Off Course
Adventure Rider Radio - A Motorcycle Podcast
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In 2003, Bryan Jones and his wife, Max, joined a guided motorcycle tour through Cambodia, expecting a challenging but well-run adventure motorcycle trip through jungles, villages, and remote roads. What they got instead was something very different — aging bikes, a guide who kept disappearing, and a journey that quickly became unpredictable.
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| 0:00.0 | We've had so many people ask us about t-shirts and hats. We now have Adventure Rider |
| 0:04.1 | Radio t-shirts and hats at our website, Adventure Riderrader.com. Click on merch. Today's story |
| 0:11.0 | takes us to Cambodia on what was meant to be a guided motorcycle trip. From the very beginning, |
| 0:16.6 | there were signs that things weren't lining up the way they should. It's a story about an adventure that went off course. |
| 0:22.8 | And what happens when partway through the ride, the riders realized that something is |
| 0:27.6 | deeply wrong and they're faced with a decision and maybe more. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Jim Martin. |
| 0:33.1 | This is Adventure Rider Radio. |
| 0:34.7 | Stay with us. |
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