The Motorcycle Sidecar Journey That Changed Everything
Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast
Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eva Strehler had already learned what drew her to the road on a motorcycle: freedom, movement, and a way of living outside the usual shape of things. Then she built a sidecar for her dog, Polly, and headed east. What followed was meant to be another long motorcycle journey — through Turkey, into Iran, and across landscapes that changed as quickly as the people she met along the way. But somewhere during the trip, the journey became about something else entirely. This is a conversation about travel, companionship, risk, solitude, and the moments that quietly change the meaning of a journey while you’re still inside it.
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| 0:00.0 | Eva had already learned what motorcycle travel gave her, freedom, movement, a way to live |
| 0:07.3 | outside the usual shape of things. Then she brought Polly into that life. With a sidecar |
| 0:14.6 | built for her dog, Polly, Eva set off east with only sort of a loose plan and a long horizon. |
| 0:21.1 | The road led through Turkey and into Iran where the journey became something that she had not planned for. |
| 0:27.4 | This is a conversation about motorcycle travel, sidecar life, traveling with the dog, |
| 0:32.9 | and the question that stayed with Eva even after Iran. |
| 0:36.6 | What makes a journey a good one? I'm Jim |
| 0:39.8 | Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We get a good one for you. |
| 0:47.8 | Hi, this is Charlie Borman. Not a Lee schoolmaker. Simon Mackor. Simon Mannicum. |
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| 1:59.3 | Okay, my name is Eva. Iva Streler. I'm German. I've lived in Germany until a few weeks ago, and now I'm in the south of England. And I'm a travel writer. |
| 2:15.5 | Eva, welcome to Adventure Rider Radio. |
| 2:18.2 | Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. It's a great pleasure and honor and, yeah, exciting. |
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