PRESENTERS
Presenters for Winter Warmer 2022 are still being confirmed, because Covid continues to thrust changes upon us, but some of those speaking are listed below
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Helen Lloyd
Helen spends most of her time travelling. Even when she’s working to save up for the next trip, she maintains the freedom of an itinerant lifestyle by residing in her van.
For her first big overland journey, she cycled from the UK to Cape Town. Since then she’s pedalled down North and Central America and across Asia, packrafted in Nicaragua, bought and ridden a horse in Kyrgyzstan, and paddled a pirogue down the Niger River in Guinea.
After a winter cycling in Siberia(!), she finally upgraded to a motorbike and hasn’t looked back. She has since returned to Africa on her XT225 Serow, ridden it across Europe twice and spent last summer exploring Iceland’s remote highland trails.
At the WW in 2020 she'll be talking about the 15 months she spent riding her Yamaha from Cape Town to Cairo: exploring the remoter parts of Angola to Ethiopia’s Danakil depression (hottest inhabited place on earth) with mine-avoidance, monkey mischief, safaris, volcanoes, salt flats, pyramids in the desert and other tales.
She has written for Overland, has published two books – Desert Snow and A Siberian Winter’s Tale – about her cycling adventures and the book about her ride around Iceland will be launched at the Winter Warmer!
For her first big overland journey, she cycled from the UK to Cape Town. Since then she’s pedalled down North and Central America and across Asia, packrafted in Nicaragua, bought and ridden a horse in Kyrgyzstan, and paddled a pirogue down the Niger River in Guinea.
After a winter cycling in Siberia(!), she finally upgraded to a motorbike and hasn’t looked back. She has since returned to Africa on her XT225 Serow, ridden it across Europe twice and spent last summer exploring Iceland’s remote highland trails.
At the WW in 2020 she'll be talking about the 15 months she spent riding her Yamaha from Cape Town to Cairo: exploring the remoter parts of Angola to Ethiopia’s Danakil depression (hottest inhabited place on earth) with mine-avoidance, monkey mischief, safaris, volcanoes, salt flats, pyramids in the desert and other tales.
She has written for Overland, has published two books – Desert Snow and A Siberian Winter’s Tale – about her cycling adventures and the book about her ride around Iceland will be launched at the Winter Warmer!
Supported by Dunlop Tyres
No matter how you like to ride, there’s a Dunlop tyre that’s perfect for you and your bike. Ever since John Dunlop invented the pneumatic tyre in 1888, Dunlop have been at the forefront of tyre technology. They never stop trying to improve riders’ grip, control and safety. Continually developing new technologies they have an incredible range of tyres to suit every kind of adventure and touring machine. All new technologies are thoroughly tried and tested in racing conditions so you can concentrate on nothing but the road ahead. And just ride.
Bruce Smart
Bruce Smart had a GSXR when he decided that he would follow his mum's advice and 'Live his life'. So he set off Round the World and the tale of how it all went became the hugely successful book 'Live Your LIfe' released back in 2015. He'll be talking about some aspects of that trip on Saturday evening. Since he released the book Bruce has infact bitten the bullet and bought a more conventional 'adv' bike and has also become a proliffic vlogger, something that he's going to talk about at the WW. How do you do it? Why should you do it? What works and what doesn't, should all be covered in his workshop.
Tiffany Coates
Tiffany Coates is the world’s foremost female motorcycle adventurer, having travelled over 300,000 miles crossing every continent, some of them several times. Each year she heads off on new adventures. She discovered motorbike travel by accident after several years of backpacking. Her initial two-wheeled adventure involved riding overland to India when she set off two-up on a BMW R80GS alongside her best friend, with just two months riding experience between them. Overland Magazine has featured some of her stories from those early journeys and she'll be talking about something to do with Africa at the Winter Warmer. Perhaps the mud of Madagascar or wonderful Uganda, which she says is a must-see for all overlanders. Remote riding adventures remain her passion, something she now shares with others in her role as freelance motorcycle guide, working with the biggest names in the industry.
Ed Gold
Ed Gold lives in a tent all year round, from the back of a motorcycle. He works as a photojournalist, producing photo essays for BBC News online, for books, exhibitions and his for own quarterly magazine 'Positive Futures’. Ed will be talking about his passion for off-grid living and his visits by motorcycle to his main interest; remote indigenous communities. He’ll show some of his favourite images and discuss his rides to some of these communities in Patagonia, North America, Australia and Europe.
Jack Groves
Jack Groves is a Britonabike and now the holder of the record as the youngest person to ride round the world. He used an Enfield Himalayan and managed to complete his trip even with multiple Covid lockdowns. It's a great story! Sadly he couldn't make it to the Overland Event this summer as he was caught in France with delayed ferry crossings. Thankfully he's joining us for the Winter Warmer.
Simon & Lisa Thomas
Since 2003 when they first left the UK on a BMW R1150GSA and an F650GS, Simon and Lisa Thomas have ridden something like half a million miles through 78 countries, breaking records and more than a few bones along the way.
In 2016 their original bikes were upgraded to a BMW R1200GSA LC for Simon and an F800GS for Lisa, which they’ve been riding around Mexico, Canada, Alaska, and the USA. Now, with continued Covid uncertainty, they’re back in the UK waiting to continue their quest to ride through 122 countries and on all seven continents.
We’re thrilled that they are to be part of the Winter Warmer but rather than talk directly about their travels, they'lll be running some workshops. Lisa will be cooking up something really special: an on-the-road cookery workshop, while Simon will be offering a taster of the photography courses they now offer through their Living Lens project. https://www.livinglens.photography/
Find out more about their mammoth trip here
https://2ridetheworld.com/
In 2016 their original bikes were upgraded to a BMW R1200GSA LC for Simon and an F800GS for Lisa, which they’ve been riding around Mexico, Canada, Alaska, and the USA. Now, with continued Covid uncertainty, they’re back in the UK waiting to continue their quest to ride through 122 countries and on all seven continents.
We’re thrilled that they are to be part of the Winter Warmer but rather than talk directly about their travels, they'lll be running some workshops. Lisa will be cooking up something really special: an on-the-road cookery workshop, while Simon will be offering a taster of the photography courses they now offer through their Living Lens project. https://www.livinglens.photography/
Find out more about their mammoth trip here
https://2ridetheworld.com/
Supported by Dunlop Tyres
No matter how you like to ride, there’s a Dunlop tyre that’s perfect for you and your bike. Ever since John Dunlop invented the pneumatic tyre in 1888, Dunlop have been at the forefront of tyre technology. They never stop trying to improve riders’ grip, control and safety. Continually developing new technologies they have an incredible range of tyres to suit every kind of adventure and touring machine. All new technologies are thoroughly tried and tested in racing conditions so you can concentrate on nothing but the road ahead. And just ride.
Matt and Reece (AsSeenFromTheSidecar)
Matt and Reece are back from their circumnavigation of the globe on a scooter with a sidecar. For those of you who haven’t checked in with their progress since they left from the 2017 Overland Event, you’ll be surprised to hear that the lads made it to Paris and much, much further.
We welcomed them home at January’s Winter Warmer where attendees were treated to Russian caviar as the guys talked about the coldest stretch of their trip back from Vladivostok.
For the WW this year they are going to let us in to what happened traversing South America and just how the little Honda coped in the Andes among other things
We welcomed them home at January’s Winter Warmer where attendees were treated to Russian caviar as the guys talked about the coldest stretch of their trip back from Vladivostok.
For the WW this year they are going to let us in to what happened traversing South America and just how the little Honda coped in the Andes among other things
Mike Vitkovitch
A proper engineer and motorcyclist who only reads one kind of book; a bike manual. Well that was the case, but he's now learning to enjoy writing, especially about his travels, and was second in the Rev'It Overland adventure writing challenge in 2015. He rides whenever and wherever he has an opportunity and particularly loves the desert... still unable to resist a good challenge. He'll be talking about surviving incredible flash floods in Morocco.
Max Jowett
Max is probably known to you as the owner of TravelDri, selling camping equipment and motorcycle gear at The Overland Event and many other shows across the country. But he's widely travelled and tests all that gear that he sells. He led mountaineering expeditions to the Annapurna region of Nepal in the early 90’s whilst also enjoying winter mountaineering, rock and ice climbing, before setting up and running a charity called Wheels 2 Work.
It’s a motorcycle loan programme for disadvantaged people, that stretched over five counties and had nearly 300 motorcycles on the road helping isolated people access work and education. He ran two motorcycle dealerships investing all of the profits back into local communities through Wheels 2 Work.
At The Winter Warmer this year he'll be talking about his recent CRF250 ride through West Africa.
It’s a motorcycle loan programme for disadvantaged people, that stretched over five counties and had nearly 300 motorcycles on the road helping isolated people access work and education. He ran two motorcycle dealerships investing all of the profits back into local communities through Wheels 2 Work.
At The Winter Warmer this year he'll be talking about his recent CRF250 ride through West Africa.
Jacqui Furneaux
In the summer of 2000, Jacqui Furneaux began what became a seven-year journey around the world through 20 countries on a 500cc Royal Enfield Bullet. That was seven years without a plan. Hit the Road Jac! tells the story of that life-changing adventure. Ted Simon called it, “much more than an absorbing book, this is a manual for self-discovery.” She hasn’t stopped travelling though and has recntly returned from a 6-month ride in Australia, still using her Enfield, which remains her everyday transport in the UK.
Craig Carey-Clinch
Author of the 'Road to Mali' a great book that blends motorcycle politics with overland travel, Craig is widely travelled, but he has also acted as an overland tour guide for some very big names in the business. At the Winter Warmer this year we'll hear some confessions of a tour guide...
Supported by Dunlop Tyres
No matter how you like to ride, there’s a Dunlop tyre that’s perfect for you and your bike. Ever since John Dunlop invented the pneumatic tyre in 1888, Dunlop have been at the forefront of tyre technology. They never stop trying to improve riders’ grip, control and safety. Continually developing new technologies they have an incredible range of tyres to suit every kind of adventure and touring machine. All new technologies are thoroughly tried and tested in racing conditions so you can concentrate on nothing but the road ahead. And just ride.
Fern Hume
Although Fern's epic global ride aboard her DRZ400 began back in 2011, now that she's back in the UK she hasn't stopped travelling. Now though, she's been exploring the world on micro adventures, setting a £1000 budget and seeing where in the world she can get to, hire a bike and ride until the money runs out. You'll be amazed at what's possible!