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Back to SearchSteve Johnson
Episode 41
From a teenage pizza-slinging street racer to a professional National Hot Rod Association-winning Pro Stock Motorcycle drag racer, Steve Johnson understands the value of humble beginnings. He also kn…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Peter Dering
Episode 40
Greek philosopher Plato is credited with the expression, “Our need will be the real creator,” which, loosely translated centuries later, became, “The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of o…
Published on 5 months ago
The American Motorcyclist Association with Nick Haris
Episode 39
If you’re a motorcyclist living and riding in the U.S., Nick Haris works for you. Even more so if you’re one of the more than 200,000 members of the American Motorcyclist Association, whose tagline i…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Annick Magac
Episode 38
Annick Magac and “Driven to Ride” host Mark Long grew up in different parts of the country, but they share common ground. They both live to ride and ride to live, as the saying goes, and they both ha…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Nick Haris
Episode 37
Motorcycling and politics don’t mix, right? They do for Nick Haris. In college, the Washington state native was an economics major and worked at a motorcycle shop. Degree in hand, he applied for his …
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Larry "Fletch" Fletcher
Episode 36
Larry Fletcher grew up in Wisconsin in the late 1960s and early ’70s, like a lot of people his age, doing “silly stuff” on minibikes with his buddies. He took a break from motorcycling until he moved…
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Thalassa Van Beek
Episode 35
Thalassa Van Beek fell in love with motorcycling as a teenager working as a hostess and model in her native Netherlands. She was handing out brochures at a trade show when a blue Yamaha YZF-R6 caught…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
Brady McLean
Episode 34
Moms are the best advice-givers. Wyoming native Brady McLean once dated a woman from a multi-generational motorcycle family. “Her mom is the first one that I can ever remember saying, ‘Go fast, don’t…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Vanessa Ruck
Episode 33
Vanessa Ruck is a self-proclaimed “go-getter, a chase-your-dreams kind of girl.” Her path to motorcycling came in a roundabout way: on the heels of a devastating bicycle accident that required seven …
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Daniel Ritz
Episode 32
Daniel Ritz stumbled upon motorcycling a dozen years ago while working as a newspaper editor in Southern California. “There was a small shop up the street from where I was living,” he tells “Driven t…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago