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Highside/Lowside motorcycle podcast: Ryan of FortNine's round-the-world record run

Dec 29, 2025

Can you imagine how hard it would be to ride your motorcycle around the world in 17 days? If you've ever been involved in (or even witnessed) the making of a feature-length-quality film, you know what an incredible amount of work goes into it. Now imagine doing both at the same time. 

This episode of Highside/Lowside invites popular FortNine video host Ryan Kluftinger to give the behind-the-scenes story of how he and a colleague and a cameraman sped around the world in 16 days and 23 hours on two Ducati Multistrada V4 Rallys. And that's a straightforward record. No stopping the clock and taking a week off to rest up while the motorcycles were shipped across an ocean. It was one, uninterrupted, around-the-world sprint.

The film debuted with a special showing December 22 at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver, Canada, and is now available for download at FortNine. You can see the trailer at the FortNine YouTube channel. Of course a lot more happens while racing around the world than will fit in an hour-long film. For more of the backstory, check out Highside/Lowside.

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As always, for those who prefer visuals, we’ve got the YouTube link above. But if you're listening to this inside your helmet on your commute and just want the words, the podcast version is available via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and LibSyn to name a few of your favorite podcasting apps.

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