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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

Shifting Gears After 17 Years on the Road - Lisa and Simon Thomas

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Seventeen years of continuous travel by motorcycle has come to an end for Lisa and Simon Thomas as Lisa’s health and a pandemic has changed everything for them. A few years ago they bought a home in Wales but continued on with their travels, until...

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17 years of continuous travel by motorcycle comes to an end for to ride the world's Simon and Lisa Thomas as Lisa's health and then a pandemic change everything for these two riders.

0:12.0

A few years back they bought a home in Wales, but without even doing anything with it, they immediately hit the road again.

0:18.0

After that, they were forced to return home to deal with Lisa's health issues, and then the pandemic hit and they settled into the new home.

0:25.4

So they spent the last two and a half years getting used to living under a solid roof again

0:29.6

with a wood door, glass windows, no flapping tent fabric, no inflatable mattresses, driving a pickup truck

0:36.2

instead of a motorcycle, getting, well, comfortable.

0:40.2

You have to wonder if that comfort of a home changes things for two travelers that have been on the road for that long, and they're both getting older.

0:47.0

Simon is 51. Lisa just turned 60, and we all know how the body refuses to hold up under the demands of a younger you.

0:55.0

I wanted to know how having a permanent home will change things for them, for life and for travel,

1:01.0

and how getting older affects their travel decisions as they move forward.

1:05.0

What will happen next?

1:07.0

I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio.

1:09.0

Stay with us, we got a good one for you. I'm Sam Manneke.

1:15.0

Z. Simon, baby,

1:18.0

Bueg would do.

1:20.0

How you get better?

1:21.0

Joce on Snow?

1:22.0

Simon Thomas,

1:23.0

he said Johnson, Jimmy Lewis,

1:25.0

John Thomas, and this is Adventure Rider Radio.

1:27.0

It's wind pressure that powers the motobreeze chain oiler. No electrical or vacuum

1:35.6

connections, it delivers the oil to a felt pat on your swing arm, no nozzles near

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