FOREVER MOTORING: The Romance of Motorcycling with Paul d'Orleans

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07/17/23 • 91 min

This episode is about the feeling of being alive, and the flow of time, style, and sensuality. Looking back at the ways we've moved means looking back at what matters. Paul d'Orleans is an exceptional traveler and guide along these paths. As an artist, author, entrepreneur, rider, motorcycle historian, and curator, he has found ways to connect and inspire us, way-making towards greater potential and understanding, saving exceptional stories and images from being forgotten. His work and the work of his team at The Vintagent and the Motor/Cycle Arts Foundation are treasures towards forever motoring.
Link here to an article about Paul in Classic Driver.
Read some of Paul's Cycle World articles.
Watch the panel discussion of Electric Revolutionaries here.
Find the Vintangent and Paul on Instagram.
Check out the film Impatience that we discuss.
Here's The Sex Machine, the first article written about the experience of having an orgasm while on a motorcycle.
Gestalten's gorgeous books The Ride and The Current (in collaboration with Paul).
Taschen's incredible Ultimate Motorcycle Collection (in collaboration with Paul).
Here is the NPR episode on parking he discusses: How Parking Explains the World.
Watch the following videos to learn more about two extraordinary humans we discuss, Richard Vincent and Samuel Aboagye.
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Our website is Forever Motoring.
Link here to the Motorcycle Arts Foundation.

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Watch the opening spoof with over 20 million views here on the video version of this podcast.
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Transcript

Andrea Hiott: [00:00:00] Hello everyone. Have you ever read The Vintagent? It's likely that if you love motorcycles or motoring in general, you've probably read something from Paul d'Orleans, who is our guest today. I'm so excited to have Paul on the show. We had such a nice conversation.

Uh, actually 'nice' is not the right word. It was graceful, motivating. It was an emotional conversation in some ways, or at least we talked about subjects that I've thought ab