Whenever you are on a motorcycle ride, either a trip across the country, a weekend clover leaf with some friends or just out to get new bottle of whiskey and cigars, if you ever stop for gas, more times than not, someone will walk up and say those famous two words, "Nice Bike..." and a conversation usually goes from there. This podcast is about Motorcycle talk, trip advice, packing lists, history, routes, cigars and more. James and Chris are not professional riders, but are passionate about a good ride, a fun trip and the history that surrounds us on a ride. Have a quick listen and drop us a note, a question or a topic on twitter @fuelstopchats. Also, we try to post pictures from the rides or routes we discuss, our instagram is @fuelstopchats as well.
Featuring Chris Black and James Matrisciano
Enjoy and welcome back! After a 2 year MIA....we are back. It helps if I hit record and not 30 minutes into the episode....but hey, it's been 2 years, im rusty. Enjoy and hopefully you find it entertaining, more to come this season as we catch up on rides, bikes, and other things.
We catch up with the Disorderly Drifters, you'll never guess where they are now. Pakistan? Vietnam? Mongolia? Iraq? Listen in and find out!
Chris and James....well, Mainly Chris, talk about BBQ across America
James and Chris discuss The Trades and compare that to the costs of Higher Education.
Chris and James welcome back Tracy Charles for another episode in her travels across South America, although now she has a dog that rides on the back of her GS with her, Roo. We talk about traveling with a 4 legged companion on how Tracy taught Roo how to ride on a motorcycle.
In this episode, we talk a little bit about getting ready for fall riding and then we wrap up our TT experience.
In this episode Chris interviews James on the preparation work to travel to the Isle of Man for the Tourist Trophy 2022 race. Steamer tickets, AirBnB's, Plane tickets, Package options, air planes...a true planes trains and automobiles episode.
James and Chris visit the Isle of Man for the 2022 TT races. This is a mini podcast of 7 minutes to talk about initial thoughts, quick highlights and the start of the races. Recorded on site, audio is not the best.
Join Chris and James as they talk to Molly Vaughan and Brian Schaffran, the founders of Skidmark Garage and MotoGo, a 501(c) that is educating the female youth of Cleveland how to care and maintain motorcycles. https://motogocleveland.com and https://skidmarkgarage.com
Chris and James talk about Tires, Bikes and IOMTT among other tangent topics
We start out Season 2 of Fuel Stop Chats with a bit of a bitch session....we take a few weeks off and it seems everything has gone to hell in a hand basket....do you agree?
James and Chris sit down with Wesley Schultz from The Lumineers and Publicist Jim Merlis to talk about the new album Brightside, how motorcycle riding influences the music he writes and even writing songs like Gloria while riding the back roads of the Catskills Mountains.
Adventure Riding! Back Woods Camping! James and Chris sit down with Tim James and Inna Thorn from the BDR group. We discuss past, present and future adventures and our overall enjoyment of the BDR movies as well as the mission of the BDR in keeping backcountry dirt roads open to connect small town to small town.
James and Chris talk with Cindy Bently-Roberts from Wreaths Across America to talk about the organization, donations, participation and motorcycle escorts to honor the fallen heroes. Remember. Honor. Teach. https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org
Chris and James sit down with David Goldman, an award winning documentary and portrait photographer/filmmaker. Originally from Toronto he has lived in both Los Angeles and New York. His documentary work has taken him to India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia and the Northern Territory of Australia. Working on projects about human trafficking, maternal health and marginalized people. David is also known for the album packaging artwork for Blink 182's Enema Of The State that has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. The Motorcycle Portraits series began after considering how ubiquitous motorcycles are in developing countries yet a luxury item in more developed countries. Focusing on the people that ride and how the shared use of this machine connects individuals no matter where in the world they live.
Chris and James come back after a fat thanksgiving to talk about the ramp install in Chris's truck, Black Friday and an attempted motorcycle sale certified check fraud.
Jame and Chris sit down once again with Florian from Road Runner to discuss the upcoming Fall issue, as well as other riding tales from the road. Florian shows off a pretty cool travel guitar from Ciari Guitars.
Chris and James welcome our friends the disorderly drifters - five friends riding Monkeys and a CT90 from the North Dakota / Canada Border to Ushuaia, back again from Mexico. We talk about Coco's Corner, packing list adjustments, monkey problems and Iron Butt certification "The Disorderly 1600".
Chris and James discuss transportation, when is it ok to truck/trailer? ever? Camping/Glamping abilities and the ultimate power ramp at ultimatepowerramp.com
In this episode, Chris and James sit down with Amazon travel section best seller author Michael ONeill to discuss his new book Road Work. A travelog of American and Canadian roads from the perspective that only a motorcycle can produce. We also discuss other authors and books that inspire us as riders as well as some suggested reading from listeners. Tune in and enjoy! Road Works is available on Amazon in hardback and for downloads via Kindle and the Apple Book Store.
Learn a. little about your states monuments while touring on your motorcycle. Tour of Honor's Steve Brooks gives us an update on this years tour, a little talk about the ride to meet that was held this year and discussion of next years rides.
In this episode James and Chris talk about helmet laws, lane splitting and lane filtering. Also, a video breakdown of an accident and having rider awareness
In this episode, Chris and James talk about great places to see fall colors, what to think about before going (the planning aspect of it) and the dangers of wet slippery leaves on the roads.Like, Subscribe and if you have feed back feel free to hit us up at fuelstopchats@gmail.com
in this episode, James and Chris talk about planning and conducting long distant multi day motorcycle trips, how to prep, how to pack and things to think about. Also, James talks about his Alabama Lot Lizard experience.....not for the faint of heart, rider beware
OnSite Live with Darryl Cannon from Killboy.com to talk about the Dragon, how many paved pull-offs do you think there is in the 11 miles of dragon? thinking you guessed wrong too.
5 friends prepare to embark on an epic life time trip on 4 Honda Monkeys and 1 Honda CT90. Starting in ND USA and heading "To The Bottom" Ushuaia South America.....then over to South Africa, then up to the UK, then over to Mongolia and other places in between. BatShit Crazy....or Absolutely Brilliant...you be the judge. Follow them here or at Disorderly Drifters, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
Dirty Honey front man Marc Labelle joins James and Chris before heading out on tour with the Black Crows to talk about music and rides, Alaska to Croatia, Harley to BMW off road. follow Marc @campmoto on Instagram for more music, tours and motorcycle news and check out Dirty Honey on tour with The Black Crows this summer!
Ep22 - Jack Riepe Author of CONVERSATIONS WITH A MOTORCYCLE, MOTORCYCLES SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS, THE MOTORCYCLE RIDER'S DIET and CIGAR SMOKING IN POLITE SOCIETY stops by to talk about the BMW MOA Rally, and his love of the K bike, I mean the R bike....I mean the K bike. Check out Jack's books available at https://jackriepe.com
We have a return visit with Tracy Charles, out on her world wide adventure with her GS Tracey talks about roads, foods and general observations while traveling through Colombia.
The Playlist - Dirty Honey and Bob Seger to Wicked Soundtrack and Cuban Radio, what do you listen to? Chris and James talk music this episode, what they listen to and how it changes depending on the bike and road.
EP19 Road Runner Magazine Editor-in-Chief Florian Neuhauser returns to discuss up coming issue with the HD ADV 1250 Panamerica, bikes past and present and riding with the kids
In this episode we sit down with the Tail of the Dragon's photographer Darryl Cannon, owner of KillBoy photos and Killboy.com to talk about how he got started and interesting sites on one of the worlds most sought after rides.
James talks about construction skills, motorcycle awareness month and some short stories from the road
Ep16 Tyrone Williams - long time friend and riding partner joins the podcast to talk about being introduced to multi day rides and what to expect, as well as how to prepare
Ep15 Kiwi Dr. Russell Lowe, PhD in the Art of Motorcycle Design talks to us about his time on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Parachuting blindfolded and E-Bike concepts and designs.
Ep14 Kim Moon and Andrew Davies talk K1600 Enthusiast topics, Michigan rides, Army times and the benefits of education
Episode 13 We have a Fuel Stop Chat with RoadRunner Magazine Editor-in-Chief Florian Neuhauser to talk about my favorite magazine! How it started, Blue Rim Tours, favorite bikes, subscriptions….just listen, you'll like it! Subscribe and Like it if you do.
Tonight we talk to Todd (our resident fashionista) about "The Black Motorcycles" and Road to Recovery, a not for profit organization the helps inner city kids with addiction problems.
Tracy Lynn Charles. Retired widow sells all worldly possessions, buys a GS and embarks on a motorcycle trip around the world. COVID creates challenges for border crossings, but determination is packed in her saddle bags! Check out Tracy's travels at TLC_Travels on instagram and YouTube.
James and Chris welcome Steve Brooks from Tour of Honor to talk about the motorcycle scavenger hunt to honor the military and first responders. Find out more at www.tourofhonor.com
Rob from Americas Ultimate Long Distance Rider joins us tonight to talk about his riding inspiration, What it's like to ride 70k miles in a year and the joys of the open road.
in this episode, Chris and James talk about what they pack on their bikes for different kinds of travel, some talk about tents and preferences for sleeping.
We sit down for an extended unedited fuel stop chat with Wil Willis to discuss a little forged in fire, motorcycles, cars, fatherhood, his new production company and veteran relations. One for the books! Airborne!
On this fuel stop chat, we sit down with Angie Sandow, to discuss motivations in becoming a one armed motorcyclist and musician
Todd K joins joins Chris and James to talk about bikes, we discuss the Austria fire and some other must see museums for motorcycles, riding gear fashion and what he has coming up around the next bend for his ideas for rider fashion.
In this episode, Jame and Chris discuss some Road Runner articles, race across the desert with a coyote and James almost goes to jail. Enjoy, leave some feed back and subscribe!
In this episode, Chris and James discuss their first bikes and how they came to love motorcycle riding, a couple hot spots to visit in Texas for some hill country riding and the love of a good banana pudding.
In this episode we do a fuel stop chat with Jerry Lyver to discuss North American Biker Rescue (NABR), a Facebook group 42k strong that respond to "Chrome Alerts" when bikers need assistance, we have a ride through social media to discuss winterization for your motorcycles and a couple food stops along the way. Enjoy
In this episode, we do our basic introduction, who we are and what to expect, we talk about some of our favorite routes to ride and chris shares a story worth the listen to. Enjoy
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