The Wheelnerds Podcast

Todd’s fixing the Ural and I’m getting ready to buy a new bike. Oh yeah, he got married, too. We’ll be back soon!

Well, show 21. This marks the end of what we’re calling Season One of the Wheelnerds. We’ll be taking a break to allow Todd time for his wedding/honeymooning. For this week, we talk to John Bunce of John’s Alaska. John did the ‘Big Trip’ from Connecticut to Alaska on his bike. It’s interesting to hear the trends that we pick up from these guys that manage to go ahead and do the ‘Trip.’ They all seem to have some common ideas and Todd and I talk about it while dreaming up our own ‘Big Trip.’

Go check out John’s site: http://www.johnsalaska.com/ and watch his videos and plunk down a buck to pick up an e-copy of his ride report. Nice job on documenting the trip!

This week’s Classified has already been taken down. Hope he found the bike.

Here is the motorcycle safety video that we talked about:

Pretty jarring stuff when I first saw it. Speaking of videos, we’ve seen the Nissan one with the Juke running down bikes, but it just makes me go ‘eh.’ What’s funny is that the Juke is actually the car I’m thinking of picking up if/when my 12-year old Subby gives up the ghost! Guess I’ll lose my biker cred if I’m seen in it now for sure, huh? Damn marketing!

Any bets on when Franca finally ponies up for her own S1000RR and stops crashing the dealer-loaned ones?

That’s it for us. Don’t forget we’re offering stickers and other stuff up on the ‘Merchandise’ page at the top. Help us get some beer and taco money!

Also, send us a photo entry for the Adventure Starbucks contest. I got the prize in the mail from Touratech…

That’s some hardcore TP right there!

We’ll be back in a couple weeks with more shows on motorcycles and.. stuff. Thanks for listening and being a part of the fun! Keep writing us. We answer every email we get (most of the time sober even!).

Don’t forget about our official Wheelnerds Disorganized Unpaid Correspondent Program. Basically, we want to hear some stuff from you! Ridden a bike (like your own) and got an opinion? Got a cool piece of gear or farkle? Got a story? Know some jokes? Record an MP3 (or whatever) and email it to us at wheelnerds@gmail.com. We’ll throw it on the air and talk about it, too. That’s right, you can be the first on your block to be openly mocked by the Wheelnerds. Alternatively, you could call our google talk # to the right there and leave us a message if you’ve got no way to record something. Or, even cooler, (to me, anyway), you can now also leave us a voicemail via Skype! Our skype ID iswheelnerds. Just go ahead, call, and leave us your story there! (We still read your emails, too, and will answer them on the show). If you got something really cool, shoot us a line and maybe we’ll talk to you live, too.

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The Call of Nature

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Why our guests always sound so distracted….