The Story Behind ADV Rider Forum - Chris MacAskill

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Chris MacAskill is a lifelong motorcyclist and the founder of the forum, ADV Rider. After a motorcycle trip to Mexico, Chris launched the forum as an online community for adventure riders and it has been growing steadily for almost two decades. He’s got quite the story to tell about growing up and how he got to where he is today, about starting the forum and where it’s at right now. For photos, links and to download more episodes go to https://adventureriderradio.com. Subscribe on iTunes or your favourite podcast app. Like us on Facebook and on Twitter.

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0:00.0	Green Chili Adventure Gear makes American Made Heavy Duty innovative luggage systems that will turn any dry bag into motorcycle luggage, any bag you have into motorcycle luggage.
0:09.0	GreenChilly ADV.com.
0:12.0	I'm often fascinated by what can come from things that go wrong.
0:17.0	You've probably heard stories of accidental discoveries like Sillyputty,
0:21.0	penicillin, Post-it notes, all stories about things that went wrong,
0:25.3	but end up being the catalyst for another great idea.
0:28.5	Well, on this episode, we have the founder of the ADV Rider Forum.
0:32.0	His name's Chris McCaskill. And Chris has a really interesting story that will take us from living on the street to university, from Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, and an uncomfortable trip to Mexico that he made on his motorcycle that ends up being the seed for the
0:46.7	ADV Rider Forum. And there's a lot more in here too. My name's Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider
0:51.8	Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. I'm playing coach driving our real, Johnson,
1:03.2	thinking, and you're listening to Adventure Rider Radio.
1:07.0	Best Rest Products is where the number one tire pump in the business for us motorcyclists comes from
1:13.9	it's called the cycle pump made in the USA has lifetime warranty they also
1:17.2	distribute the Google Tech filters for North America the website cycle pump
1:22.1	dot com max bimps the website Cycle Pump
1:28.0	Max BMW Motorcycles has been outfitting adventure riders since 2002 45,000 parts online
1:30.0	shipping to your door from Max BMW.com You also can sign up for their e-writer newsletter
1:35.2	a free newsletter maX BMW.com. Well you know it's not even guesswork it's a proven fact that you will get more
1:44.2	miles from your chain by oiling it regularly. Here's we got a look at the
1:48.7	motobreeze chain oiler. It's got no moving parts, it's got no electrical parts. It runs off of air pressure and it's got vacuum connections that take the oil down and deposit it onto a felt pad that goes directly onto your chain.
2:01.0	An ounce of oil gets you a thousand miles or
2:02.9	1600 kilometers. Motobreeze.com. There's two eyes in there,
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