Aaron Steinmann KTM500EXC - 140,000 ks around the world motorcycle adventure

Exceptional posting. Clear engaging. Gracias. Greetings and respect to all from Durango Mexico 🇲🇽

Aussie pivot pegs- best upgrade. Best pegs by some margin. Great interview.

Great interview, Mich appreciated

Really enjoyed that. The world needs more blokes like Aaron.

I like this simplicity, you do not need a big GS for do touring. Great interview, thanks!

Arron is the man hey ! Super nice guy ! Nice interview well done

What an impressive trip. Thanks for the tips about the BDR, I need some trips to take int he states.

like seriously, how did he manage about maintenance with 500exc?? 140.000km is a lot!!

Come to Africa snowflake ;)

Tons of rebuilds im sure. These bikes are maintenance hogs.

How is it with registration or your bike when you travel through all these countries? Any issues with going through places like say... the USA?

Great interview, really insightful questions. thank you!

Argh, the Seat Complaint! When will older interviewers get creative and stop wasting time on dirt bike seat complaints? If you dont have your core strength and good posture - every seat will bother you, including your office desk seat, after hours in it.

Im late to the party. Great interview, amazing how much drive, passion and commitment a trip like this takes.👍🍻🇦🇺

Hey Dave, all the good questions were there but - unless I missed this part twice while (re)wathing the interview - what was the service on the 500EXC? I imagine every 500/1000km changind the oil, filters, valve adjusting, etc, how did Aaron manage that part? The big EXC is perhaps the best candidate for the unicorn, just a bigger tank, stronger subframe and bigger service intervals and voila! So it would have been nice to hear how was Aaron coping with one of the most disapointing shortage of this bike = service intervals. Cheers

Awesome, mans a kiwi!! me too.

TET is now about 52k i think at last count 🙂 brilliant resource for anyone

unreal story by the way

That's a long way on a dirtbike!

Great interview. He seemed to fly/ferry from Mongolia to Western Australia. Any reason he didn't bike it in China & SE Asia. I think he said he'd been to Laos, so maybe he'd done a lot of SE Asia before??

Loved the interview Dave and really helpful for planning on my rtw tour

Dave if you want to ride the northern california Sierra gold rush foothills from Tahoe to Yosemite, let me know

Wow!! Love the bike choice!!! Love this Podcast!!

Great interview. Thanks for posting. Very inspirational.

Dear David Thank you for such a great vid. In 2019 I rode a BMW GS 650 from Sydney to London to raise funds for Beyond Blue and the Black Dog Institute. I had never ridden a motorcycle on the road before no bike no license and frankly no clue.
I am now embarking on a tour of the America’s commencing in April 2023. My ride is a KTM 790 Adventure R (2019). My plan is to travel North from LA to Alaska and then following the East Coast of the US to Mexico and travel South to Chile. As you have experienced the pre planning for such a ride is critical. I would appreciate, if you choose, to discuss my journey and most importantly learn from your experiences
Best
Ian Yates

The BDR started out west, they have blazed some trails in the eastern United States now. I hope to do a few of them in the next few years.

Gents … I have a CRF450XR … I’m curious about your rally Pegs . Do you have a link for them ?

2,016 gets oils changed about 2,400 miles 😁🤣

Awesome video! Really enjoyed the discussion.

I’m allergic to Merino ! Used to get SERIOUS lower leg itch,like for days after riding,turns out it was my Sealskinz !

Really enjoyed the interview with Aaron, crazy amount of kilos! I created a poster of the most iconic off-road KTMs of the last 50 years (1973-2023), and the KTM500EXC-F was one of the 12 pencil sketches that i did for the poster. In the inscription below the 500EXC-F i made reference to Aaron and his round the world trip

Did he use the same bike for hole trip and not rebuild it?

The thing about clothes is that you can buy them as you go. I would only bring one pair of pants, 2 underwear and two socks. You can buy that shit anywhere in the world and even if you couldn't you can do without socks and underwear. You need tools, rain gear, tent, sleeping bag and stove. You can't buy that shit just anywhere.

Great interview, such an easygoing guy.
See how you suck us into going back into these older videos when I'm watching the Husqvarna 501 videos. lol

Giant Loop, I have multiple sets of GL luggage. I have several other brands of luggage as well, which I've never used. The GL luggage is so easy to put on & off the bike, pack & unpack that I just can't get motivated to use the other stuff. I met Harold at the Giant Loop Rally last year, and his staff and they are all down to earth people that are passionate about the lightweight motorcycle adventures. I'd go to this year's rally but I need to head across country the other direction.
Dave, if you come over to the States to ride you should let us know. All of us pensioners will ride out with you, and the beers are on us. Clubby, Nugget, and Kyle would be super welcome as well.

GREAT Interview - We need more riders like this!

So he put 60k miles on it before the rebuild? That's reassuring, just hit 2k on my 2015.

It's a shame that the plandemic stole years from your lives...

the original Dirt Baggers (dirt bike and camping)

Incredible man. Very cool life experience, thanks for sharing. I just picked up a 24’ ktm 500 and I’m looking to do a British Columbia trip and a USA tour

Terrible that such an adventure came to an abrupt end where the bike was stolen in Northern Australia. Disgusting he had to go through that.

Really great interview!! Maybe because my English is not the best and I missed it. Did he do the whole ride with one engine? Normally the engine oil needs to be changed every 15 hours. How often has he changed the oil?

Salut ,y’a n’arefait le moteur qu’a 100000km? Rien avant pas même le piston tout les 10000km?

Crazy he had been through all those ‘dangerous’ countries and his bike gets stolen in OZ!

How many kilometers was befote piston rebuilding?

Goes all the way around the world, through some very questionable countries, interacts with some interesting cultures - some with bad stereotypes. Then comes to Australia, home to supposedly the oldest continuous culture, who flog his bike like the mutts they are.

Fantastic interview, how do you get into vehicle licensing and country to country import rules etc? I’ve looked at taking a car from Aus to Nz and the custom wait times are unreal as well as price

wow

the dude has consumed 2 tankers of oil