In my mind, Sam McCora became an adventure motorcyclist at the age of 14.

It was the day that he taped that map to his gas tank of his minibike and rode over 100 kilometers to see his girlfriend.

That was the day he entered adventure motorcycling. Well he's

still an adventure motorcyclist but he's also a sports scientist at the

University of Kent in the UK and as a scientist Sam managed to marry his work with his favorite

hobby that's riding motorcycles and he's done it in an effort to study the

effects of fatigue on the body. You see Sam draws some parallels between soldiers and motorcyclists and he's used

those connections to have the Minister of Defense of the UK fund his project.

So for his experiment, Sam signed on with Globusters International Motorcycle Tours

for a trip that goes from London, England to Beijing, China.

Over 13,000 miles, that's almost 21,000 kilometers.

Sam would be measuring the effects of fatigue on the riders.

He managed to enlist the 14 other riders on the trip

to be his guinea pigs, in Sam's words words to run experiments on and measure the effects of fatigue on their bodies.

Each rider was equipped with various sensors that measure skin temperature and stress levels as they progressed throughout the adventure.

They even went as far as swallowing a small pill that had a transmitter that would give the inside body

temperature out to a receiver that Sam had with his equipment.

And all the while Sam would collect the data on his portable lab equipment as he too rode

the adventure with his lab equipment stuck in one pan year and his personal gear in the other.

They completed the trip. Sam ran the data and he came up with some

really interesting facts about how our bodies respond to long distance riding.

On this episode we'll talk with Sam about his findings. We'll talk about the use of caffeine as a stimulant to deal with fatigue, good or bad, the similarities

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