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Book Review: The Fundamentals of Leisure Off-Road Riding

I'm always on the hunt for ways to level up my skills and help my coaching clients do the same. My recent dive into "The Fundamentals of Leisure Off-…

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Anatoly Chamyavskiy’s "White Desert" Book Review

| Sam Manicom | Books
 Anatoly Chamyavskiy’s White Desert: Riding Across the Frozen Landscape of Siberia Anatoly Chamyavskiy is a true adventurer. Born in T…

Book Review: Joey Evans' "From Para to Dakar"

| Sam Manicom | Photos provided by Joey Evans | Books
My hat is well and truly off to Joey Evans. This is the story of how he went from being a paraplegic to racing in the fabled Dakar Rally. It is a jou…

"The Tom Report" Book Review

| Sam Manicom | Books
"The Tom Report: Seattle to Santiago on a Motorcycle" - by Tom Reuter For an important perspective, let’s put three things straight into the con…

"Blood, Sweat, and Notiers" Book Review

| Sam Manicom | Photos by Tim Notier | Books
In Tim Notier’s first book Maiden Voyage, he takes the reader through all the ideas, dreams, testing, mistakes, and surprises that inevitably happen…

"The Moment Collectors" Book Review

| Sam Manicom and Friends | Reviewed by JM Staelens | Books
Reading The Moment Collectors: Twenty Travellers’ Tales from Around the World, an anthology of short stories of motorcycle travel adventures selected…

"The Topography of Fear" Book Review

| Mathew Sturtevant | Reviewed by Sam Manicom | Photos by thetopographyoffear.com | Books
This book provides a shining example of how the darkness of the mind can dominate all—but still be defeated. It’s also about how making one’s dreams…

"The Japanese-Speaking Curtain Maker" Book Review

| Spencer Conway | Reviewed by Sam Manicom | Photos by Spencer Conway and Carl Routhier | Books
Spencer Conway is an adventurer through and through. If you look him up, you’ll see that when this man has a dream, he goes for it. His dreams are us…

"Eldorado to the Klondike" Book Review

| Thomas Porter | Books
Eldorado to the Klondike: Riding Inappropriate Motorcycles to Out-of-the-Way Places What started as just a 'shakedown' ride from his home in Ontario…

"No One Said it Would be Easy" Book Review

| Sam Manicom | Books
No One Said it Would be Easy - Written by Des Molloy, Reviewed by Sam Manicom Do true adventures require life and death situations? No One Said it Wo…