Johann ZacroJohann Zarco joined Grand Prix motorcycle racing in 2009, competing in the former 125cc two-stroke class. His first win was not until the Japanese Grand Prix in 2011, Zarco claiming the 125cc-class victory for Derbi.Zarco joined the then-new Moto2 class in 2012, but didn’t have much luck while competing on Motobi, Suter or Caterham Suter machinery. Things changed drastically for the 26-year-old in 2015 when he began piloting Kalex machinery; that year, he won eight races, earning the Moto2 title. This put France on the GP map.
Hello everyone and welcome once again to Motos and Friends, the weekly podcast brought to you by Ultimate Motorcycling. My name is Arthur Coldwells.
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In this week’s first segment, Editor Don Williams takes the smallest BMW ADV bike on an urban adventure in Los Angeles. The BMW G 310 GS is a full size motorcycle with a modest engine, so of course we wonder if it is a little too underpowered and might struggle. Don put it through its paces and gives us his take.
In the second segment, Neale Bayly and Kiran Ridley have returned from the Ukraine to Paris where Kiran is based.
Kiran is an award winning photojournalist, and as an accomplished documentarian, he has covered stories as diverse as drug smuggling around the Mexican border, to the devastation of the Australian Bush Fires, to the tragedy of the Mediterranean migration crisis. Neale and Kiran reminisce about their motorcycle adventure in the Ukraine, and their observations and experiences with the incredibly resilient people of Ukraine, who have been put through such brutal hardship.