37: Near Misses, Credit Card Fraud, Travel by Ural and Going Electric
ARR RAW Round Table Discussions With Motorcycle Adventure Travellers - Featuring Grant Johnson, Brian Rix, Shirley Hardy-Rix, Sam Manicom, Graham Field and Jim Martin.
FIND OUT MORE: To find out more about the co-hosts go to the RAW CO-HOST FEATURE PAGES: Shirley Hardy-Rix & Brian Rix, Grant Johnson, Graham Field and Sam Manicom.
On This Episode:
Graham Field: While in India, Graham Field finds out what it’s like to be the target of possible credit card fraud or even stolen identity.
Topic: Lessons learned from near misses on and off-road ~ Dan Collins
URALS:
Question: I'm interested in the group's thoughts on Urals as far as long distance rigs. Have you seen many out on the roads or know anyone who's done serious distance on one? ~ Nick Vicente
NEW HARLEY DAVIDSON ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE, ELECTRIC BIKES AND TRAVEL:
Discussion about Harley Davidson’s new e-bike and about electric motorcycles in general. Electric bikes are coming - what’s this going to mean for travel? Is it even possible to ride an electric bike through different countries? Is it realistic at all?
LINKS:
Sam Manicom has taken much of his valuable time to put together this list of useful links for RAW listeners:
URALS
American Borders: A solo circumnavigation of the United States borders on a Russian sidecar motorcycle by Carla King - Find the link to your favorite store at books2read.com/americanborders
ELECTRIC BIKES
Trui Hanoulle
Zap Map - EV charging point App
zap-map.com/
Link for world charging points
openchargemap.org/site/country. Interesting map.
EV in Africa – a fascinating set of comments