Heat & Hairpins

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Radio TRO is brought to you in part by: Twisted Road - Motorcycle Rental in the USA Visit Twisted.TRO.bike to get a FREE riding day! Travis gets the featured-special chair after flying into New Mexico in moto boots, turning a helmet bag into a hard-shell purse and borrowing Maggie's bike for the Truth or Consequences tour. His ride report moves from Winston, Alpine and the Devil's Highway to blacktop that changes color, gravel that waits mid-corner and rain that dumps once then vanishes. By the end, the verdict is simple enough for a dehydrated punk-rock tourist: New Mexico is worth it ... but not for beginners. Robin runs the same trip with moving-house panic, rig repairs, reversed leaf springs and family gravity blinking red behind the visor. The ride becomes his season reboot, with the road-that-shall-not-be-named turning stress management into delayed-apex therapy. His lesson is consistency, less to prove than skill and a Japanese horn sharp enough to discourage every animal except javelinas. Brian keeps the grab bag from flying apart with Brown County rally logistics, bad superbike shopping advice and the old truth that you cannot plan every inch of a corner. A Ducati Panigale V4S, BMW S1000RR, Norton Manx and a Miata-plus-track-bike answer all get dragged into the same smiles-per-dollar courtroom. When the talk turns serious, he recommends doing the homework, trusting the skills and committing before the baby heads decide for you. Jordan Liebman returns to Joey Dunlop's 1977 with Mick Grant skepticism, Formula-class growing pains and the Silver Jubilee TT that made Joey impossible to ignore. Joey wins on a TZ750 he barely trusts, worries about opening the champagne, stops at Parliament Square on the last lap and still beats George Fogarty by 51.66 seconds. The rope-held exhaust, 110.93 mph lap and Barry Sheene horizon all say Joey's anonymity was no more. Speaker Entry: Brian Wringer - 00:02:00 Robin Dean - 00:02:15 Travis Burleson - 00:02:32 Jordan Liebman - 00:49:53 Episode Page: https://tro.bike/?p=36793 Music by Rabid Neon and Otis McDonald

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