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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BlogTalkRadio’s Ride! Show Features Hot Lineup

Of Motorcycle Guests For Spring/Summer 2008;

Genevieve Schmitt, Carla King, Basem Wasef, Pete Gagan,

Laurel C. Allen & Mark Gardiner To Appear On Ride!

May 21, 2008 (Toronto) – With summer fast approaching, BlogTalkRadio’s Ride! heats up with a brand new series of entertaining interviews featuring international motorcycle experts and personalities beginning May 21.

If you’re a female rider, you’ll be especially interested in two upcoming shows. Genevieve Schmitt, who’s a leading spokesperson on the topic of women and motorcycling, addresses issues affecting women in the sport, while intrepid motorcycle adventurer Carla King recounts her experiences riding in China.

There’s also plenty of motorcycling history in store. Author and photographer Basem Wasef talks about legendary motorcycles and their celebrity owners; motojournalists Laurel Allen and Mark Gardiner discuss the history of BMW racing motorcycles; and Antique Motorcycle Club of America President Pete Gagan chats about his novel set in the early days of motorcycling.

These live blogcasts begin May 21 at 7 p.m. EDT on award-winning Ride! on the BlogTalkRadio Network (If you miss the live show, the recorded podcast will be available on the Ride! website www.blogtalkradio.com/ride.)

Ride! guests for May, June, July 2008:

May 21 – Basem Wasef

Basem Wasef is an author, journalist, and photographer who also happens to be a graduate of the Freddie Spencer School of High Performance Riding. He’s resident motorcycling expert for the popular web portal About.com and contributes to such magazines as Robb Report and Popular Mechanics. Basem recently wrote and photographed his first book Legendary Motorcycles for Motorbooks International. (www.basemwasef.com)

June 4 – Pete Gagan

Pete Gagan is the (recent) past president of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America, which he joined in 1959. He founded the Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group (CVMG) in the late 1960s. An avid collector and restorer, he’s owned some 150 vintage bikes over the years. He’s also actively participated in vintage roadracing. The Legend of Fireball Fleming is his first novel. (www.antiquemotorcycle.org)

June 18 – Carla King

An avid motorcyclist and travel writer, Carla King authored a series of realtime dispatches about her travels in India and China during the early days of the Internet. A book about her solo-circumnavigation of the United States on a Russian Ural was published in 2007. Her follow up book about riding solo in China, called Under The Radar, will be published this summer. Carla currently hosts the popular Miss Adventuring podcast. (www.carlaking.com)

July 9 – Laurel Allen & Mark Gardiner

Laurel Allen grew up around the road race paddocks of North America and is personally familiar with racing legends and some of the fastest competitors racing today. She has been senior editor at Road Racer X magazine since 2005. (www.roadracerx.com)

An amateur motorcycle racer for 15 years, Mark Gardiner quit his advertising job in 2002 and moved to the Isle of Man to race in the TT. As a motojournalist, he’s contributed to a variety of international motomags and authored a memoir. (www.markgardiner.com)  

Laurel and Mark’s book BMW Racing Motorcycles: The Mastery of Speed was recently published by Whitehorse Press.

July 23 – Genevieve Schmitt

Genevieve Schmitt is a leading spokesperson on the topic of women and motorcycling. She’s an Emmy-nominated television producer and was the first woman to host a weekly motorcycle TV show. In 2000, Genevieve launched Woman Rider magazine and, more recently, WomenRidersNow.com about the lifestyle side of motorcycling. (www.genevieveschmitt.com)

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About Ride!

Ride! is an online talk show that's all about motorcycling. It debuted on October 24, 2007 on the BlogTalkRadio network and subsequently won a 2008 MAX Award (Motorcycling Award for Excellence) from the North American International Motorcycle Supershow.

The 30-minute show features engaging interviews with a wide range of noted international motorcycling personalities and experts. Ride! is unique in that it airs in real time and is interactive. Listeners can call in and comment or ask guests a question. The shows are recorded and can be downloaded directly from the Ride! site and by RSS feed.

About Adrian Blake

Adrian hosts the online motorcycle talk show Ride! on the BlogTalkRadio network. A freelance motorcycle journalist, writer, and podcaster, Adrian currently writes a national motorcycling column called Twistgrip for Sun Media. SM is the largest chain of tabloids and community newspapers in Canada.

His freelance motorcycle features have been published in England, Australia, Canada and the U.S., including eight years in the bestselling custom publication American Iron Magazine. In the late ’90s, Adrian designed the popular Route 66 tour for premier international motorcycle tour company, Edelweiss Bike Travel.

About BlogTalkRadio

BlogTalkRadio was established in August, 2006 as the first social radio network on the Internet. Receiving attention and acclaim from media outlets like USA Today, CNN, CNET.com, TechCrunch, FoxNews, and dozens more, BlogTalkRadio is revolutionizing both social media networking and radio broadcasting.