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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Lewis talks about what it’s like to ride in the deserts in Nevada, USA. He also has some great tips on tires and what you can expect when desert riding. Clinton Smout from SMART Adventures gives some tips on riding in the sand and high temperatures. We talk to Chantal Simons, who recently completed a crossing with an all women’s riding group. She talks about how she got involved, the preparation, the support vehicles, the bikes and how the group of women connected. More motorcycle travel episodes available on Adventure Rider Radio at adventureriderradio.com. Want to help out? Rate and review us on iTunes or on your favourite podcast app, tell your family, friends, riding buddies or club about ARR. Check out our other show ARR RAW, round table talks.Subscribe to both shows to listen to inspiring and interesting guests, learn from professional riding instructors and industry experts about all things motorcycle. Get an ARR sticker(postage included) with a $10 donation. Link on our website. Have a comment? Go to the episode show notes on our website and have your say at the bottom of the page. Adventure Rider Radio is now the most listened to motorcycle podcast in the world, and we thank you for your support!

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0:00.0	Today we're going to spend some time in the desert. We've got some riding tips, some tire tips, and one person that rode across the Simpson desert in Australia.
0:09.0	My name's Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us, we get a good one for you.
0:14.2	All bikes need tough, reliable strapping systems,
0:17.4	and Green Chili Adventure Gear makes heavy duty strapping systems
0:20.0	to fit all motorcycles.
0:21.8	And you can turn any bag into pagners using the unique strapping system
0:26.7	all available at green chilly ADV.com. Hi, I'm Sam Mannequin.
0:35.0	I'm Phil, I'm Phil, I'm most advanced,
0:38.0	Kat J-J, and Stan,
0:40.0	Nathan, no woman, Tkite, Raymond Coachstra, not read Johnson,
0:44.0	thinking, and you're listening to Adventure Rider Radio.
0:47.0	The Motore's chain oiler is powered by wind pressure,
0:51.0	that there's no electrical no vacuum connections it
0:53.9	delivers the oil to a felt pad on your swing arm so there's no exposed
0:57.4	no no exposed nozels by your sprockets one ounce of oil lasts over a thousand
1:01.1	miles or sixteen hundred kilometers.
1:02.8	Get more miles from your chain and sprockets, which everybody wants to.
1:05.8	Triple W. dot motobreeze.com. There's two eyes in there, motobreeze.
1:16.5	Best Rest Products makes the number one tire pump in the business for us motorcyclists. It's made in the USA has a lifetime warranty.
1:19.2	There are the place to buy Google tech filters in North America, their website triple W dot cycle pump.com.
1:25.6	When we hear talk of deserts and motorcycles, it's easy to imagine Dachar, and those images of fast riders on large dirt bikes, rooster tails of sand and dust as a bike tops the dune and descends down the other side.
1:45.0	Jimmy Lewis has been in that seat, even on the Dakar, and he still loves riding in the desert. What's a desert like? What's a desert ride like for you?
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