I really enjoy listening to podcasts. I am a musician by trade, but more often than not I find myself listening to an audiobook or a podcast. I have been searching all the directories for good motorcycle content and the search has been arduous and often fruitless. So I have started to gather a list of motorcycle podcasts and review and evaluate them so that the next guy doesn’t have such a difficult time finding some good listening.
One of the things that makes this so difficult is that many of the podcasts that are popular enough to show up under the search “motorcycle” are no longer producing shows. Nothing seems to frustrate me more than getting excited about a show only to realize that there is never going to be a new episode.
The original plan was to evaluate all of the shows and write a long rundown of the state of motorcycle podcasting today. I then looked at the list of shows, that had grown to 17, and realized it would take me a year to listen and write about each one. It seemed prudent to instead break up all the reviews into bite sized pieces, looking at just one show at a time.
Here is the list of shows as it stands now:
| Shows that are still running | |
|---|---|
| Adventure Rider Radio Brap Talk Cafe Racer Podcast Cleveland Moto False Neutral Front End Chatter Girl on a Moto High side/Low Side Law Abiding Biker | long riders radio Loud Pipes Moto Pod Motorcycles And Misfits Noco Moto Podcast The Wheelnerds This Motorcycle Life Throttled |
To lend some scientific credibility (year, right) to this work, it felt like there needed to be some list of criteria by which to evaluate each podcast. Here is a rundown of ideas I will try and touch on for each review.
- Motorcycle Content
How much motorcycle stuff is in the podcast? Is the podcast content connected to motorcycle life/world peripherally? - Credibility
Are the hosts and guests credible? Are they people to whom you would go to to ask questions and seek information? - Host Likability
Are these the kind of people you would want to hang out with? Often the podcasts we enjoy the most are the ones whose hosts we find magnetic. - Production Quality
Is the audio up to par? Nothing is worse than bad audio… - Subscribe
Would you subscribe?
I will try to listen to each podcast in one stint, but that may prove difficult as some of them run into 2+ hours. Stay tuned (ha, get it?) for each podcast review and a recap/best of at the end of the run.
