Skid Plates and Crash Bars - What Your Bike Needs with Teach McNeil

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Skid Plates and Crash Bars - What Your Bike Needs - Chris "Teach" McNeil No matter how much riding you've done or how experienced you are, there's always the possibility that your bike may go down. Be it from losing your footing while off-road riding or just from it toppling over for some random reason, you will want the best protection for your motorcycle. Motorcycle damage can be expensive, but there are after-market protection components available to minimize or prevent costly repairs, or perhaps even to keep from putting your bike out of commission. For the past ten years, Chris "Teach" McNeil, a champion freestyle motorcycle athlete, has been performing around the world doing some pretty extreme stunt riding. And Chris has learned a thing or two about protecting a bike through the school of hard knocks! In carrying out the stunts he does, he's had his fair share of spills and as we all know, experience speaks volumes. On this episode Chris shares his knowledge of how to best safeguard your bike for when it goes down. Twitter: teachmcneil Facebook: teachmcneil Rider Skills-Improving Rider Visibility - Bret Tkacs Improve and master your riding techniques with some great tips from Bret Tkacs from Puget Sound Safety Off Road. Bret is a skilled expert and this segment's instructor. BestRest Products Home of the CyclePump Tire Inflator, TireIron BeadBrakR, EZAir Tire Gauge, and other adventure motorcycle gear. When you’re on the road you’ll want a compact and reliable method of tire inflation. The CyclePump runs off your bike’s electrical system and it’ll fill a flat tire in less than 3 minutes. It’s made in the USA and it comes with a 5-year warranty. BestRest also makes tire changing and tire repair kits that are small enough to fit in your saddlebag. The crew at BestRest are adventure riders themselves, so they know what you’ll need when you’re exploring the world. www.CyclePump.com Giant Loop A rider owned company born from a desire to carry camping gear on enduro bikes into the demanding, rugged high desert country of eastern Oregon. Giant Loop is the exclusive North American importer for Rally Raid Products Honda CB500 kits, parts and accessories. Giant Loop offers adventure proof packing systems, modular customizable bags and gear for small enduro bikes to adventure touring machines. Choose the individual components to carry the gear you need on the bike you ride. “The best hard-core saddlebag and tank-bag solution we’ve found…” - Cycle World Magazine, Nov 2015. Proven by adventure riders on every continent but Antarctica. Get free shipping in the USA with promo code: ARR. www.giantloopmoto.com Green Chile Adventure Gear Offering American made heavy-duty, innovative motorcycle luggage systems for all types of motorcycles. Tested in extreme weather conditions and terrain to withstand any abuse you can throw at it on your adventure rides. To complement riders’ needs they are also the exclusive USA distributor of Outback Motortek, a Canadian company specializing in adventure and touring motorcycle protective accessories. Outback Motortek offers ultimate and essential protection for your adventure bike. These accessories could be your best investment to save you from replacing your damaged bike with the ever-expensive factory parts. Available at www.GreenChileAdv.com. More motorcycle podcasts at www.AdventureRiderRadio.com

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0:00.0	If you ride your adventure bike off the pavement, which hopefully you do because that's why you bought an adventure bike,
0:06.0	but especially if you ride it off-road, the chances are you're going to drop it.
0:10.0	There's going to come a point where it's going to end up laying down in the dirt. Now that probably won't be the last time.
0:15.4	It'll happen again and again and usually it's no big deal as long as you have your
0:19.5	bike properly protected. Now Teach McNeil is a world-renowned stunt rider. He does all things
0:25.2	with his motorcycle you would think were impossible. And he does it with the grace and style of,
0:30.1	I don't know, ballroom dancer. Really,, he makes it look easy like anybody can do it.
0:34.3	Like you could take your bike out and do it. What does that have to do with bike protection?
0:38.6	Well, when you do extreme things with motorcycles, it doesn't always work out, to say the least.
0:45.6	In fact, Teach McNeil has dropped his bike a lot.
0:49.0	All stunt riders do.
0:50.4	So when we thought about protecting our bikes for adventure riding, we figured who better to talk to than somebody who needs that bike protection and depends on the bike protection for their livelihood.
0:59.0	And that's Teach McNeil, professional stunt rider.
1:02.0	Also on this episode, we have another rider skills segment. Teach McNeil, professional stunt rider.
1:02.6	Also on this episode we have another rider skills segment with Brett Tax
1:06.0	and Brett has a new way of using your vision
1:09.4	that's going to make you a better rider.
1:11.5	I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio. Terry Borden.
1:23.0	Jack Gordon. Ryan Field.
1:24.0	Justin Vince.
1:25.0	Jason Spafu. Lisa Mori,
1:26.0	Bethesen, Bettschoor.
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