The Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast The Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast

Adam Lyman is a design researcher, engineer, entrepreneur and adventure motorcyclist.   He uses his skills to make devices that actually work to help improve people's lives in rural Africa, and to keep an ancient Africa Twin on the dirt roads of southern Africa, which is probably where it should be.  See, not just a clever name.

He recently launched The Bush Barrow Company which is a social enterprise he started with a community partner in Zambia. They produce appropriate mobility technology that makes life easier for people in Africa. This company was born from a three-year collaborative design process with small-scale farmers in Zambia. 

He also rides an excellent Africa Twin and is Noel's best Internet friend.


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Brett Anderson was living a healthy and active life with his wife and dog in Hot Springs, Virginia.  He had worked as a pilot for United Airlines for 26 years out of Washington D.C. and was a senior Captain flying International routes to Europe and South America.  In the late summer of 2021 he noticed that he was having excessive shortness of breath with simple exertions, such as walking up a slight hill, something very unusual for him as he regularly ran 3-4 miles a day, rode motorcycles off-road, and lifted weights.   As this continued and got worse Brett went to his doctor who took a chest x-ray and immediately sent him to the local emergency room, where they admitted him to the hospital for 4 days.  He was diagnosed with Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia, a type of Autoimmune Lung disease.   After being released and started on a treatment regimen, he got better for a while, but then stopped improving after a few months.  He could not get back to running and other cardio activities without extreme shortness of breath.  
Concerned about the long-term effects, Brett went to one of the top pulmonology clinics in the world, the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester MN, where he was eventually diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis as a result of the Eosinophilic Pneumonia. 
 Knowing that PF is a terminal lung disease, but not knowing if he had one year or many left, Brett decided to not only fulfill some dreams of his own by riding his motorcycle in different areas around the world, but to use his journeys to inspire others and to show that a bad medical diagnosis does not mean you have to stop living your life.  Because the FAA has decided that he cannot keep flying with this disease, his career is currently on hold, but he is working with his doctors to convince the FAA that he is safe to keep flying at his current disease level.   In the meantime, Brett decided to raise money for Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness and research through a fundraiser for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
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Welcome to this weeks episode.  We welcome the very modest, and very funny Matt Bishop and Reece Gilkes, AKA The Sidecar Guys.

They hold a world record for the longest around the world trip on a scooter and sidecar.  As if anybody else would even be remotely interested in trying to beat that ridiculous record!

Anyway they tell some great stories, and despite the scooter bit, they give great podcast.

They also tell us about their brilliant festival of all things adventure - https://www.armchairadventurefestival.com/

Sounds great, you should go, on your new Ural outfit, which you can also buy from them... https://www.sidecarexperience.co.uk/ or just go on one of their experience days.
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Simon & Lisa Thomas are considered by many to be the world’s foremost Adventure Motorcyclists, with more ‘real-world’ experience than anyone on the road today! They are also leading authors, photographers, motivators, public speakers and world renowned travellers. The pair are on the Committee of Advisors for the Ted Simon Foundation and regulary contribute to many of the worlds leading adventure publications.  

They are currently enjoying a COVID induced layover in the UK whilst planning to resume their travels.  

Their loss is our gain however as they have started a photography school called Living Lens Photography.  It's worth signing up for the stories alone we reckon...

https://www.livinglens.photography/
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Neil's back again for part 2 of his Africa trip.  Neil's In Africa, at the Sudan - Ethiopia border to be precise...
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Neil's In !
Neil Gonzalez is back with a second installment of his travels, this time down the east coast of Africa.

This is part 1.  Part 2 will be coming next week.

Fascinating and enlightening stuff, a must listen.
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