ADV Cannonball
ADV Cannonball
Podcast Description
Discussing the ADV Cannonball and all aspects of adventure motorcycles, including rallies, tours, technology, reviews, YouTube, moto camping, and long-distance international motorcycle travel.
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This podcast covers a variety of themes revolving around adventure motorcycles such as the ADV Cannonball Rally, touring advice, motorcycle technology, and reviews. Specific episodes highlight unique journeys and practical advice like motorcycle shipping to Europe, discussions on electric motorcycle regulations, and insights into adventure biking events such as the Desert Adventure Rally.
The ADV Cannonball Podcast is the official show of the ADV Cannonball motorcycle rally, covering everything related to adventure riding, rally life, and life on two or four wheels. The show mixes rally news, tall tales, and stories from past tours around the world with the highs and lows of moto camping and attempting Cannonball records. We travel globally to interview guests in person, including the heroes who have achieved ADV Cannonball records, motorcycle racers, skills trainers, adventure authors, and film producers.
A gun gets waved in bumper-to-bumper traffic, a rider escapes down the shoulder, and we are left asking the same question we keep circling back to: what does “safe” even mean when you ride long distances in the real world? We start with updates from the ADV Cannonball orbit, including a heavy, time-sensitive story tied to an active nonfiction research project, and how modern tools like AI research agents, photo metadata, and public records shape what we can prove. The death of Walter Lauridsen and the book You Are Family by Aaron Pufal.
From there we get into the friction points that riders keep hitting in 2026: electric motorcycle charging costs versus gas, and how automated systems are starting to police behaviour in ways that feel detached from reality. We connect an Iron Butt Association dispute to delivery platforms suspending riders for being “too fast”, and dig into what happens when algorithms replace context, common sense, and human review. We also talk Scooter Cannonball changes, why the competitive edge matters to some riders, and what gets lost when events get softened by liability fear.
Then we bring on Swedish adventure travel photographer and filmmaker Yuan Stollberg for a wide-ranging conversation on craft and travel. Yuan shares how he went from ski photography to motorcycles, offers practical smartphone photography advice (light, composition, and the rule of thirds), and tells stories from Texas to Pakistan, including rough roads in the Karakoram, welcoming locals, and the kind of humility travel forces on you when you see how other people live. We wrap with Patagonia travel logistics, weather hardships that create the real story, and balancing big trips with life at home as a new parent.
If you enjoy smart rally talk, adventure motorcycling culture, and travel storytelling with real edges, subscribe, share the episode, and leave us a review. What’s one moment from your rides that still doesn’t feel real?
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