Ted Simon - 90 and Still Riding

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Ted Simon has been a motorcycle travel mentor for riders and adventurers around the world for decades. Countless times we’ve heard from people who have said that his book inspired them or that they consulted with him before they travelled or that he helped them write their own book. He’s travelled the world twice, and as he turns 90 he is still riding and still writing. On this episode, a conversation with the adventurer who helped paved the way for long distance motorcycle travel, Ted Simon. More motorcycle travel episodes available on Adventure Rider Radio at adventureriderradio.com. Want to help out? Subscribe, rate and review us on iTunes or on your favourite podcast app, tell your family, friends, riding buddies or club about ARR. Adventure Rider Radio is a listener supported show and we'd love to get your help. Please check us out on Patreon. Have a comment? Go to the episode show notes on our website and have your say at the bottom of the page. Thanks for listening!

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0:00.0	Ted Simon is turning 90 years old and he's still riding his motorcycle.
0:05.4	When he was 70 years old, he wrote around the world following the trip that he did in 1973.
0:11.0	You gotta ask yourself, what are you too old for? Ted Simon coming up. I'm Jim Martin. This is
0:17.2	Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. I'm Sammannequin.
0:25.0	Z, I'm Simon, Z, Mr. Man, Simon,
0:28.0	Prime Phil, how you get Peter,
0:30.0	Jocelyn Snow, Chinese, Simon Thomas,
0:32.0	Gee Sir Jarvis, G Grand Johnson, Jimmy Lewis,
0:33.0	Elskispe.
0:34.0	Is Janssen and you're listening to Adventure Rider Radio.
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1:06.6	adventure riding gives it tough reliable gear green chilly ADV.com well for us motorcyclists and many travelers, Ted Simon is an icon, a legend, of course he wrote the famous book Jupiter's travels, which is an account of Ted's four-year journey around the world
1:24.7	with his Triumph Tiger motorcycle leaving late in 1973. Now the book has sold upwards
1:31.0	of perhaps a half million copies,
1:33.2	incredible by anyone's standards, and it continues to sell.
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