The Road Ahead: Reinventing Life on Two Wheels
Adventure Rider Radio
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
When Bernd and Anchen Sass’s children moved abroad, the couple decided it was time to start living the dream they had discussed for decades. In their mid-50s, they left behind stable careers and set off on motorcycles—despite Anchen having no riding experience and deep fears about learning. Over several seasons of travel, they’ve crossed tens of thousands of kilometres through Africa and Europe, adapting their gear, pace, and mindset along the way. In this episode, they share what it’s truly like to make that kind of transition later in life, how they handle setbacks, and why travel, especially by motorcycle, has helped them rediscover a sense of purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm talking with a couple from South Africa, burned an Anshin sass. |
| 0:05.6 | Now, they've spent the better part of their adult life, they're working and raising children as we do, before they decided that they wanted to explore the world on motorcycles. |
| 0:14.3 | Now, Anshin wasn't a rider before this, before they decided to do it, but she had no intention on exploring the world on the back of a |
| 0:21.3 | motorcycle. So she learned to ride on a BMW F-700. And I think by most people's standards, you'll |
| 0:27.3 | agree that's a pretty big bike to start out on. So that presented some challenges in itself. |
| 0:33.5 | But there was also the learning curve on how to pack and how to equip the bikes for travel. |
| 0:43.6 | Also, how to handle problems that they have while they're traveling and know when to stop and know when to move on. |
| 0:45.3 | We're going to talk about a bunch of the things that worked and the things that didn't work |
| 0:48.9 | on their trials of traveling Africa by motorcycle. |
| 0:51.5 | But interestingly, being from South Africa, the country, |
| 0:55.4 | Byrne wanted to begin with what he saw as a difficult destination, South America. He wanted to ship |
| 1:00.8 | the bikes to South America and start there. But Anshin said they should explore Africa first |
| 1:05.8 | because they knew it. They understood the people, the systems, the terrain, and they felt safer there to begin |
| 1:12.2 | there. It's a perspective that challenges the way many North Americans think about borders and |
| 1:17.7 | travel comfort zones, in particular when it comes to riding Africa. I'm Jim March, and this is |
| 1:24.0 | Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. |
| 1:34.1 | I'm Sam Manick. I'm Simonic. |
| 1:34.1 | Simon, David. |
| 1:36.0 | Halgipherdust. |
| 1:37.2 | Presby. |
| 1:37.8 | Elizabeth Martin. |
| 1:38.6 | Jocelyn Snow. |
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