Biker Radio Rodcast
107 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBiker Radio Rodcast is a podcast on motorcycling in India, celebrating her heroic riders, legendary mechanics and iconic builders through stories told by members of the community, one legend at a time.
These are portraits in audio of the people who ride, fix and build motorcycles; their journey and their enlightening learnings from the road they have travelled on.
Awarded The Whickers in the UK and with a BBC Sounds audio documentary to boot, the RODcast (Radio On Demand) is a proven example in "narrowcasting", a 'community' domain expertise of Soundboard Media
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BRR Ep 99 Preetam Bora on the Long Way Home
April 05, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 128 MBBehind the stories that auto journalists write lies their own story. The story of a boy from small town India and the wheels that have kept turning for him, taking him places. His love for touring is perhaps only matched by his love for the six string. Preetam Bora is a senior auto journalist from Car&Bike, one of India's leading auto jourmals Honest, candid and very refreshingly real, our 99th milestone awaits you. Now grab a good pair of headphones and dive it. --- Send in a voice me...
BRR Ep 98 Malkiat Singh Hoonjan on the Long Way Home
March 22, 2024 08:25 - 56 minutes - 103 MBMalkiat Singh Hoonjan is the road captain and a mentor with the Legendary Sikh Riders of Canada, a unique motorcycling club in the world. Their flaming kesri turbans and long flowing beards make them stand out as they establish the pride of their Sikh identity amongst other formidable motorcycling icons in the west. Whether it's mechanised heavy machinery, fabricating a palki for the Gurughar or working with vulnerable youth, he's a workhorse and does it as part of his sewa. We've been wa...
BRR Ep 97 Long Way Home forNanda
March 08, 2024 11:18 - 3 minutes - 7.1 MBIt’s international women’s day as we remain engulfed in a quiet riot of emotions in India today. Our silence through the shameful act of a violent episode against a woman is best shattered as we dedicate out 97th milestone to Nanda; our heads hung in the sound of silence… Music : Nouela - Sound of silence --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bikerradiorodcast/message
BRR Ep 96 Gul Panag on the Long Way Home Part 2
February 23, 2024 13:09 - 50 minutes - 91.9 MBMotorcycling has always attracted the contrarian like a moth to the flame. Independent and sometimes revolutionary ideologues like Che Guevara have used it as a vehicle to test their idea on wheels. One would have to be blind to ignore that we too now live in challenged times where around the world democracy seems to be squeezed into an ever narrowing bandwidth where citizens are increasingly getting seduced with a self-righteous deep-rooted sense of inherited injustices with forceful narrati...
BRR Ep 95 Gul Panag on the Long Way Home Part 1
February 09, 2024 11:30 - 48 minutes - 89.4 MBWe’ve always had Gul Panag on our guest wishlist; not because she’s been a top model, a Miss India, a famous film and TV actress; but for being an outdoorsy motor heady kind of person… and that despite her stardom. She’s a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a pilot, a runner, a fitness buff, a dog lover, an entrepreneur, a conscious citizen and so much more as we’re going to learn over the next two milestones on the Long Way Home with Gul Panag. Let's begin with the Boyevaya Mashina Pe...
BRR Ep 94 Rey Dhillon on the Long Way Home
January 26, 2024 11:15 - 1 hour - 158 MBIf dirt were Dollars, Ravit Singh Dhillon would be the king of Wall St. At the 94th milestone on the Biker Radio Rodcast we feature Frisco kid, champion motocross and dirt bike rider and now Reise Motorsport’s lynch pin for the CEAT Indian Supercross Racing League, Rey Dhillon. Rey’s been flirting with dirt since he was a kid growing up in Dansville, California. A Lakers fan boy, he’s been a champion skateboarder, has had a clothing line to his name and has grabbed all the silver the Indian...
BRR Ep 93 Adil S Nargolwala on the Long Way Home - Part 2
December 31, 2023 12:22 - 39 minutes - 71.4 MBTill now we've heard of the amazing person in Adil S Nargolwala. This time we get to understand the competetive animal that he is and what fuels this extreme athelete to keep on climb his personal peaks. This seminal identity creator has always been at the core of our enquiry and Adil did not dissapoint us as he motored his way through the sallies. A truly fascinating listen that could help you to discover the Adil in you as we walk out of 2023 and into 2024. Happy New EAR! --- Send in ...
BRR Ep 92 Adil S Nargolwala on the Long Way Home - Part 1
December 22, 2023 09:10 - 1 hour - 143 MBFor every Everest that looms large, the trio of belief, discipline and prep shall enable one to conquer it. But to be playful while at it; that’s something worth digging in to… Adil S Nargolwala is Head Talent Acquisition at WNS Global Services. A biker, a rally racer, an FMSCI certified rally marshal, an entrepreneur, an active farmer, a marathon runner having run the World Majors; London, New York, Boston, Chicago, Berlin, Tokyo, the 7 continent runs, the Kilimanjaro, Umlingla, Antarctica ...
BRR Ep 91 Rongom Tagore Mukerji on the Long Way Home
December 08, 2023 06:52 - 41 minutes - 75.2 MBIf dopamine was the currency, a drag race would be THE casino on overdrive. A place to claim everything that the mind craves for. Glory, fame, belief, power and above all an identity to match your swag. The Valley Run is India’s casino of Elite Octane where Rongom Tagore Mukerji plays Bugsy. He’s built the event from the ground up and today, in its 11th year, the Valley Run kicks off at the Aamby Valley airstrip to a delirious crowd of motorheads. Like a moth to a flame, TVR attracts r...
BRR Ep 90 Shardul Shas Sharma on the Long Way Home
November 24, 2023 11:30 - 48 minutes - 89.3 MBShardul shot into fame when he nonchalantly walked into the Red Bull Romaniacs, what can be considered as the toughest motorcycle race known to boyhood and into the category that’s reserved for none lesser than warriors – THE IRON CLASS. That’s the class where adrenaline becomes haemoglobin. If you win, you are Thor. If you complete the race, you are man. Shardul is the first boy from India to complete the race and that’s the nut he wears in his helmet. Below his soft spoken demeanor flows l...
BRR Ep 89 Anand Dharmaraj on the Long Way Home
November 10, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 196 MBAnother momentous milestone with a man whose enthusiasm for life is infectious. Anand Dharmaraj's quest and wanderlust outpace the adversities that are served an eager middle finger. The presiding deity of three enterprises; Indimotard Adventures, which is a curated international ride experience, Greasehouse Garage, which is somewhere between an ICU and a spa for Bengaluru's papmpered motorcycles and T.W.O. or Throttle wide open, India's first and only track riding school, Anand Dharmaraj g...
BRR Ep 88 Jaspreet Bhatia Carberry India on the Long Way Home
October 27, 2023 11:30 - 44 minutes - 81.4 MBThe Carberry is a 1000cc British V Twin designed in its days by Paul Carberry and Ian Drysdale, coupling two 500 cc Royal Enfield engines with a custom built crank and mounted to a Royal Enfield frame. A firestarter of a motorcycle, this rocket is being built to comply with BS6 norms in India by Dream Engine Manufacturers a pet project of Jaspreet Singh Bhatia, a greenhorn but with the 'junoon' that is the leitmotif of the 'never say die' biker. The IBW is a Kumbh Mela of motorcyling in thi...
BRR Ep 87 Gaurav Gill on the Long Way Home
October 13, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes - 64 MBBelieve it or not, ace national rally car driver, Arjuna awardee, Gaurav Gill arrived on the rally circuit and took it by storm on a motorcycle. He beat the best sending seismic shocks across the country. But what still defines this lad is the hunger, to win; period. We met on the sidelines of the 2nd Outback festival in Leh and chatting up Gaurav sure added to the proverbial high. This podcast is also available in video premiering later this week. Let's GO...! --- Send in a voice messa...
BRR ep 86 Gursaurabh Singh on the Long Way Home Part 2
September 29, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBLife’s battles don’t always go to the faster or stronger man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks, he can. This is the story of faith, of friendship, the highs and the abysmal lows. It is about looking at fact in the eye and learning to live with it. It is the story of the coming of age. The Long Way Home story with Gursaurabh Singh is carried forward from our 85th episode and culminates at this emotional 86th milestone even as the road beckons. We’ve got the story; do ...
BRR Ep 85 Gursaurabh Singh on the Long Way Home Part 1
September 15, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes - 86.6 MBMaverick creator and entrepreneur, he's a man for all seasons. always there for the pack both on and off the saddle. Son, father, husband, biker, scientist, founder, enterpreneur, inventor, explorer, foodie, friend and most loveably; a comedian at heart, we give you Gursaurabh Singh. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bikerradiorodcast/message
BRR Ep 84 The Big Forkers on the Long Way Home
September 01, 2023 12:00 - 45 minutes - 83.2 MBChefs who are bankers who are foodies who are bikers ! The new face(s) of 'food for thunk' on the Indian horizon, we dig in with The Big Forkers duo of Shashank Jayakumar and Sid Mewara; fan boys of Anthony Bourdain's culinary ecapades who now have a TV show of their own on Discovery dropping Sep 11th 2023 called I should have STAYED HOME. "Take it all" says Sumeet Narang, President Probiking Bajaj Auto on the sidelines of the Triumph Speed 400 launch and Anita Krishnan sledges Ozzie food ...
Ep 83 Maral Yazarloo on the Long Way Home Part 03
August 18, 2023 13:36 - 1 hour - 119 MBIn episodes 81 and 82, you’ve heard the first and the second part of the Maral Yazarloo trilogy that meanders through her childhood, her formative years and her epic ride around the world, travelling across continents. Her co-rider, Pankaj Trivedi had, due to medical reasons, drop out in South America leaving Maral to accomplish the rest of the ride by herself. We pick up the story right at the cusp of when, born in a new avatar our thoroughbred ice maiden takes on the frozen dessert lan...
BRR Ep 82 Maral Yazarloo on the Long Way Home Part 2
August 04, 2023 12:25 - 1 hour - 114 MBPicking up from where we left it on episode 81, Maral Yazarloo is accomplished rider, world traveler, artist, business owner, animal lover, tattoo lover, a hopeless jewel junkie, beyond cure unless we’re talking manicure. Maral Yazarloo is a fashion designer and the owner of the House of Maral Yazarloo brand. She’s a wife a mother and a strong and opinionated woman, who always demands more from herself, And so she decided to go around the world on a motorcycle to all the continents barring ...
BRR Ep 81 Maral Yazarloo on the Long Way Home Part 1
July 21, 2023 12:30 - 1 hour - 117 MBA 'chashme baddoor' daughter of Iran, a world traveler, who’s gone on a worldwide ride from India to Iran taking the Long Way Home across over 64 countries, spanning 18 months and even riding thru Africa and Europe all by herself, despite being 6 months pregnant riding a BMW 800 GS. She is a daughter, a sister, a mother and a a wife. She’s got an MBA and Phd. in marketing, she’s had a corporate career in retail, she’s a designer & owns her own fashion brand called MAYA, a tattoo lover, a b...
BRR Ep 80 Koka Rahul Rao on the Long Way Home
February 18, 2022 22:25 - 1 hour - 115 MBA 'Bonafide Saint' albeit charged a sinner, Wg. Cdr. Retd. Koka Rahul Rao is a son, a husband and a father. He's been a fighter pilot, a racer, a national level rallyist, a navigator, a mechanic, a dog lover, a farmer, a golfer, a chef and a bonsai specialist. Tall, dark and handsome, it would be unfair to fault him for his affinity for wine, women and song; we bring to you the charmer who's re discovered motorcycling in his late 60s. This is also the story of a soldier’s run in with th...
BRR Ep 79 Ganesh Shinde on the Long Way Home
February 04, 2022 01:51 - 1 hour - 154 MBStarry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul... An associate creative director at Ogilvy Mumbai, the painter at heart who’s discovered a penchant for riding; Ganesh Shinde’s evocative story is that of a man who far from being born with a silver spoon in his mouth was dealt a wooden spoon instead like millions of others in our country. He’s a son, a husband, a friend, a painter, an artist, an explorer, a huma...
BRR Ep 78 - Rishad Saam Mehta on the Long Way Home
January 22, 2022 02:18 - 1 hour - 150 MBOne of India's senior travel and auto journalists who's spent over two decades exploring exotica across the Indian landscape and also all over the world. Rishad Mehta’s pieces featured across India's top magazines are insightful, well measured and delightfully original. He's also authored three travel books; Hot tea across India, Fast cars and fidgety feet and Long drive home. He is both a prolific reader as he is a tireless traveller. A son, a brother, a doting uncle, a traveler, a travel ...
BRR Ep 78 Rishad Saam Mehta on the Long Way Home
January 22, 2022 02:18 - 1 hour - 150 MBOne of India's senior travel and auto journalists who's spent over two decades exploring exotica across the Indian landscape and also all over the world. Rishad Mehta’s pieces featured across India's top magazines are insightful, well measured and delightfully original. He's also authored three travel books; Hot tea across India, Fast cars and fidgety feet and Long drive home. He is both a prolific reader as he is a tireless traveller. A son, a brother, a doting uncle, a traveler, a travel ...
BRR Ep 77 Bobbee Singh of Old Delhi Motorcycles Part III
January 07, 2022 07:41 - 1 hour - 129 MBYari hai imaan mera yaar meri zindagi... Friendships have defined the life of Bobbee Singh. He's valued each relationship and each of those relationships has helped Bobbee as he's made his way through his troubled years almost to a point of a self correcting being. Learning from every loss and building on them until he makes a success of it. The trilogy with Bobbee Singh of Old Delhi Motorcycles has been a first for us spanning across three episodes. A big thank you to Veeru Lamba, Vaibhav Ni...
BRR Ep 76 Bobbee Singh of Old Delhi Motorcycles Part II
December 24, 2021 06:48 - 1 hour - 127 MBRebellion is an infliction. Wired to rebel even against one’s self, the only peace one can derive is the proximity to the answer … why rebel? Bobbee Singh of Old Delhi Motorcycles leads a life that is charged, intense, dramatic yet Spartan. Behind the liveries and the grandeur is a man living in his quiet riot at an ease he has winnowed. He’s an actor with the heart of the fall guy. A charmer with tales taller than flights of fancy, minds can seldom make. But friendships are one’s true wea...
BRR Ep 76 Bobbee Singh Part II of Old Delhi Motorcycles
December 24, 2021 06:48 - 1 hour - 127 MBRebellion is an infliction. Wired to rebel even against one’s self, the only peace one can derive is the proximity to the answer … why rebel? Bobbee Singh of Old Delhi Motorcycles leads a life that is charged, intense, dramatic yet Spartan. Behind the liveries and the grandeur is a man living in his quiet riot at an ease he has winnowed. He’s an actor with the heart of the fall guy. A charmer with tales taller than flights of fancy, minds can seldom make. But friendships are one’s true wea...
BRR Ep 75 Bobbee Singh of Old Delhi Motorcycles Part I
December 10, 2021 07:34 - 1 hour - 165 MBOur platinum episode features rare-earth restorer of vintage Royal Enfields, the one and only Bobbee Singh of Old Delhi Motorcycles. The side car revival man, he is India’s most sought after artist who can breathe new life to ever rare barn finds into motorcycle heirlooms. He stirs up nostalgia, celebrating the days when all good things in life, was for keeps; when metallurgy, design, form and function came together in an alchemy that vouched for life, for love and old school values. There ...
BRR Ep 74 Parakram Hazarika part II - on the Long Way Home
July 23, 2021 14:21 - 1 hour - 113 MBIt perhaps all started with the cave paintings. A canvas perhaps of one’s identity. The most prized portrayal of one’s achievements. As time went by the expression found its place as the mantel piece, or the framed photo with a celeb, the Hussain in the living room, but the Yamaha RX 100 in your bedroom? That is our guest, the enigmatic Parakram Hazarika! They say a bird in hand is worth two in bush but this man who has a weakness for the momo suffers a FOMO with his RX in bed and Jajabor a...
BRR Ep 73 Parakram Hazarika Part I on the Long Way Home
July 09, 2021 16:25 - 1 hour - 117 MBParakram Hazarika's is one of the coolest beards on the circuit, he’s a #foodie, a #pogonotrophe (thanks Shashi Tharoor), an ex PR and communications man Friday, a social media marketing specialist, ex customer experience lead at Harley Davidson with the key responsibility of the Harley Owners Group or H.O.G. a vibe he liked so much, he even likes hog in his momos. Inked, bald and bearded, in the guest seat chatting over a couple of brews is the super affable manager marketing at Suzuki Mot...
BRR Ep 72 Jai Bharathi part II
June 25, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 116 MB56 Days, 17000 kms, 4 girls, 6 countries across #India, #Bangladesh, #Myanmar, #Laos #Thailand and #Cambodia. Jai Bharthi leads from the front and that is a brutal sport as it takes a combination of thinking on our feet and calculated belligerence to make headway. There of course is always a price to pay and the scars you carry are for life but the stories your have can tell tales; some about you, some about the road but every one of them a valuable learning experience. Courtesy of Telang...
BRR Ep 72 Jai Bharathi part II on the Long Way Home
June 25, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 116 MB56 Days, 17000 kms, 4 girls, 6 countries across #India, #Bangladesh, #Myanmar, #Laos #Thailand and #Cambodia. Jai Bharthi leads from the front and that is a brutal sport as it takes a combination of thinking on our feet and calculated belligerence to make headway. There of course is always a price to pay and the scars you carry are for life but the stories your have can tell tales; some about you, some about the road but every one of them a valuable learning experience. Courtesy of Telang...
BRR Ep 71 Jai Bharathi Part I on the Long Way Home
June 11, 2021 08:26 - 54 minutes - 99.7 MBSelf-actualisation is a hunger, un-famished, self- fueled in perpetuity powering the wheels of a spirit called Jai Bharathi. The name says it all. Inspired by ‘Udaan’ a TV show hosted by #KiranBedi, that showcased the unprecedented achievements of less than ordinary people to positions of power and acclaim, this girl from #Hyderabad has made women’s empowerment her life’s #MOWO. MOving WOmen is a foundation that empowers women with mobility through riding skills with the aim to make them ec...
BRR Ep 70 Nosh Mistry Part II on the Long Way Home
May 29, 2021 00:30 - 58 minutes - 107 MBWould you ride around the #Himalayas for seven and a half weeks, then finish a five day #RaidDeHimalaya successfully and then ride across all the way from #Kashmir, right across India through #Myanmar, #Thailand, #Laos, #Vietnam, #Malaysia, #Singapore and then onwards from #Darwin to #Sydney in Australia? What if your 10 year old child and your wife joined in riding alongside? Some bucket list huh ? Listen to the story of Nosh Mistry part II and his journeys to bring up our 70th milestone o...
BRR Ep 69 Nosh Mistry Part I on the Long Way Home
May 14, 2021 21:25 - 1 hour - 143 MBWrap your head around this one; he’s an athlete, a keyboardist, a coder, a financial analyst, a guitarist, a hiker, a biker a national medal winning racing cycler, a father, a son, a husband a friend, a photographer, a music producer, a painter and them some. He’s walked for weeks on end among glaciers signing off on a no rescue agreement with the army. He’s ridden for 7 weeks across the Himalayas, then completed a 5 day rigorous Raid De Himalaya before embarking on a journey from Kashmir to...
BRR Ep 69 Nosh Mistry on the Long Way Home
May 14, 2021 21:25 - 1 hour - 143 MBWrap your head around this one; he’s an athlete, a keyboardist, a coder, a financial analyst, a guitarist, a hiker, a biker a national medal winning racing cycler, a father, a son, a husband a friend, a photographer, a music producer, a painter and them some. He’s walked for weeks on end among glaciers signing off on a no rescue agreement with the army. He’s ridden for 7 weeks across the Himalayas, then completed a 5 day rigorous Raid De Himalaya before embarking on a journey from Kashmir to...
BRR Ep 68 Mihir Mishra on the Long Way Home - Part 02
April 16, 2021 21:04 - 1 hour - 140 MBShutterbug, motor head, architect and biker, armed with a sharp wit, a sharper tongue, never bothering to measure his words; only numbers as a design implementation manager with the luxury hotel trade moving on to real estate before joining GMR’s battle room at the IGI airport in New Delhi. We're back with the concluding episode of Mihir Misra on the 68th episode of the #LongWayHome on the Biker Radio Rodcast. This episode sees him dig himself deeper into the motorsport ruts, get tired of i...
BRR Ep 67 Mihir Misra on the Long Way Home - Part 1
April 02, 2021 23:35 - 1 hour - 121 MBA father of two sons, a husband, a friend, he’s an architect, an artist, a photographer, a problem solver, a biker, a single malt lover, a catador, a carnivore, a motorsport junkie, a wild lifer, an admirer of big engines in small cars, slow cooking and slow driving in a world that is rushing to get a speeding ticket. Please welcome our latest friend and guest on the Long Way Home , lights, camera, Mihir Misra. Soundboard : Navigation by Nikhil Balakrishna MyWay : Sailesh Sharma – Road trip ...
BRR Ep 66 Saurav Priyadarshi of Throttle Shrottle Moto Cafe
March 19, 2021 21:31 - 1 hour - 126 MBBiker Radio Rodcast embarks on its 66th episode of the Long Way Home featuring an iconic café that has become a sanctuary for DIYers but is essentially an overgrown man cave that doubles up as a garage, a tattoo parlour, a rescue home for pets, a kitchen for the hungry, and a hangout for motorheads as country Midwest meets the dhaba slam bang in a meteoric flash over the Aravalis. A must do in Delhi’s NCR, the Throttle Shrottle Moto Café run by its maverick founder Saurav Priyadarshi is In...
Episode 65: BRR Ep 65 Lalli Singh on the Long Way Home
March 06, 2021 04:38 - 1 hour - 159 MBThe vision of foreigners travelling around India on vintage Royal Enfield rentals from Karol Bagh is a story that has intrigued us for many reasons. Until then, most Indians took a train or a bus and the better heeled took a car or a van to go on a vacation because the motorcycle was considered unreliable perhaps even unfit for travel. Just like the Hippie movement of the early 70’s, India witnessed the rise of yet another subculture, this time of foreign tourists, back packers, Israeli army...
Episode 64: BRR Ep 64 Biswaroop Banerjee From Motoziel to Who moved my Cheese
February 19, 2021 20:07 - 1 hour - 134 MBThe Motozeil Experience was a motorcycling utopia unheard of in India. A motorcycling experience zone which was a combination of an international motorcycle accessories store, a rental, an touring company, a restaurant, a brewery, a tattoo shop and a builder’s workshop spread across over 20000 square feet on the Golf Course Extension road in Gurgaon. And it was the figment of imagination of a dreamer who went from designing accessories and apparel for Royal Enfield to becoming an entrepreneur...
Episode 63: BRR Ep 63 Biswaroop Banerjee - Scissors to Panniers - Part I
February 05, 2021 20:40 - 1 hour - 173 MBWhen passion, skill, ambition and failure come together in one melting pot, it churns a butter known locally as "noni makkhan" ... the creamy goodness of success. Co Founder and CEO Motoziel, a motorcycling experience zone well before its time; BB weaves a yarn that takes him from fashion tech thru motorcycles and down to Earth in farming. He’s a son, a father, a husband, a master, a founder, a designer, a leader, an entrepreneur, an optimist, a compassionate rehabilitator, a dog lover and no...
Episode 62: BRR Ep 62 Sukesh Viswanath on the Long Way Home
January 22, 2021 22:15 - 1 hour - 180 MBThere are some who face life’s battles with a tankful of gas and then there are those, who don’t. Some use the ride to think things thru and some who do it to abandon thought itself… Sukesh Viswanath is a thinking man. A cinematographer, he’s good to go on land, in the air and underwater as well. Born to academicians, Sukesh is well read but his penchant for adventures keeps his wild side sprightly. From running around the jungles of the Nilgiris to riding thru hell and high mountain passes i...
Episode 61: BRR Ep 61 Clifton Shipway on the Long Way Home
January 09, 2021 07:10 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBYou could be forgiven for assuming he missed the Aussie cricket team bus, because he’s tall, wiry, athletic and demonstratedly antipodean in every sense of the word but get a selfie as your jaw drops when he lashes out in the Terrai lingua franca. He might have two left feet but he sure can yap in chaste Hindi. And why not… Born Australian he's spent all his adult life here since he returned to Indian shores. His family has adopted India’s destitute children, given them a home and educated th...
Episode 60: BRR Ep 60 Subhashis Sarkar on the Long Way Home
December 25, 2020 06:20 - 1 hour - 176 MBO Calcutta! …because some journeys take you inwards… A pioneer of the digital media in India, an advertising and media veteran, he’s a motorcycle rider, an excellent photographer, a whiskey lover, a music priest, a beard grower, an animal lover, a voracious reader, a movie buff, copybook TDH, a doting husband, crisis chef and a traveler in love with his wheels.… Biker Radio Rodcast is proud to present on the Long Way Home - Subhashish Sarkar aka Raju Music credits Jibonpurer pothik re bhai -...
Episode 59: BRR Ep 59 Jobin George on the Long Way Home
December 11, 2020 20:50 - 1 hour - 136 MBMotorcycle rider, outdoors man, off road explorer, mountain goat, DIY specialist, electronics enthusiast, meticulous planner, social media distance err…and work from anywhere practitioner. On a fireside chat Jobin George, who’s made Zanskar almost his backyard, frequently riding among the inhospitable terrain, shares what seduced this hermit from Kerala to Manali. This year he was again part of the first civilians to ride a new road put together by the BRO from Padum in Zanskar to Leh, on th...
Episode 58: BRR Ep 58 Rohit Subramanian on the Long Way Home Part 2
November 27, 2020 07:51 - 1 hour - 135 MBSometimes a square peg is exactly what you need in a round hole…especially if the whole thing needs to be rethought. Rohith Subramanian imaginatively christened @misfitmagellan, prefers to square up with the hole sellers and the nay sayers as he does over 50 countries on his motorcycle in less than 4 years, on a budget and a quest. While some of us charter courses, a core magnetic resonance within him guides this young explorer to find newer grounds, challenge popular boundaries and prove tha...
BRR Ep 57 Rohit Subramanian on the Long Way Home
November 13, 2020 22:33 - 1 hour - 112 MBA traveler, artist, dreamer, entrepreneur, explorer, content creator, coffee lover and a very avant-garde human being, Rohith Subramanian celebrates everything life has to offer, from free wardrobes to sleeping in busses, from International travel to demonetization in a brothel and from the joys of riding through Patagonia to looking at death square in the face, down the barrel of a hand gun at the mercy of some kid in the wastelands of Argentina. With an unconventional education from “The A...
BRR Ep 56 Ashish Raorane - The Mariner on the Long Way Home Part 02
October 30, 2020 06:44 - 1 hour - 113 MB"DAKAR", the toughest race in the world is "A challenge for those who go and a dream for those who stay behind." Courtesy of this great conviction and a modicum of madness peculiar to all great ideas, it attracts the world’s toughest challengers like moths to a flame where cars, trucks, quads and motorcycles compete for glory. Its toughest on a motor cycle and almost unwinnable if you are a privateer. Ashish Raorane is a privateer, rookie challenger and India's new prince of the fesh-fesh. On...
BRR Ep 56 Ashish Raorane on the Long Way Home Part 02
October 30, 2020 06:44 - 1 hour - 113 MB"DAKAR", the toughest race in the world is "A challenge for those who go and a dream for those who stay behind." Courtesy of this great conviction and a modicum of madness peculiar to all great ideas, it attracts the world’s toughest challengers like moths to a flame where cars, trucks, quads and motorcycles compete for glory. Its toughest on a motor cycle and almost unwinnable if you are a privateer. Ashish Raorane is a privateer, rookie challenger and India's new prince of the fesh-fesh. O...
BRR Ep 55 Ashish Raorane - Safety Third on the Long Way Home Part 01
October 15, 2020 22:43 - 1 hour - 164 MBThis is the story of an unassuming champion who almost stumbled on the sport of, off-roading, at the age of 34 and made it his own, overcoming challenges of age, resources and then some. This is a story for that victor that lies hidden in your soul. A marine engineer by profession, the value of the time he spends on the high seas seldom equals what it takes to fuel this expensive cross country motorsport, but then there are some for whom the challenge itself is the reward. Presenting the n...