Shifting Gears After 17 Years on the Road - Lisa and Simon Thomas
Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast
Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 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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