Motorcycles Are Drugs: Conversations In Motion Gary and Henri Boulanger

Welcome to the Motorcycles Are Drugs podcast, a show where we speak with artists and engineers, connoisseurs and problem-solvers, from the moto world and beyond. We’re a father/son team that has collaborated for years through storytelling and imagery, often combining our creativity with the adventure and community we’ve found on two-wheeled machines. Thank you so much for spending time with us!

Fictional Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire hates motorcycles as much as Indiana Jones hates snakes, but the New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson loves bikes as much as he loves his horses and Wyoming ranch.

With his 19th novel ‘The Longmire Defense’ set for early September 2023 publication, we spoke with the 62-year-old West Virginia native about his motivation and discipline for writing, how he spent several promotional tours visiting bookstores on his BMW motorcycle, and that time many decades ago when he nearly lost an eye during a motocross race.



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You might know Zahn McClarnon from his iconic roles in Longmire, Fargo, Westworld, Reservation Dogs or Dark Winds. After meeting him in the Buffalo Chip at the 2018 Sturgis Bike Rally, we were pleased when he agreed to be our guest. He had one condition: motorcycle talk first, Hollywood second. 

It was a joy talking to a fellow 1966 baby who spent his formative years in the Midwest. You’ll dig our conversation about his motorcycle origin story, all the places he’s ridden, which bikes he’s owned, and which bike he’s eyeballing these days. He also drops a spoiler about Dark Winds: Season 2!



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For this special 2023 Quail Motorcycle Gathering podcast episode, Henri stitched together brief conversations with 20 attendees, including custom builder Hugo Eccles, Quail Motorsports Director Gordon McCall, museum curator Robb Talbott, 4-time GP world champion Eddie Lawson, lead judge Somer Hooker, and MC Paul d’Orléans, among others.

We hope you enjoy our unique episode of interviews conducted at the 2023 Quail Motorcycle Gathering. Maybe they move you to go on a ride, to fix up your bike, or call up your buddy for some two-wheeled soul-searching.

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Torsten Robbens is the youngest team manager to win the 24 Hours of LeMans, and with his twin brother Bjorn acquired Saroléa and developed a modern electric bike to race the Isle of Man TT. Torsten has been riding motorcycles with Bjorn since they were 4 years old, planting a mechanical seed of curiosity in them both. 




Torsten regales us with his career arc, from riding a 50cc moped to England for a lowly apprenticeship to working with Hollywood A-listers on motorcycle stunt bikes, with his impressive Le Mans accomplishments in between. We were also jazzed to talk to a fellow Belgian!




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Jared Zaugg founded Dravot & Carnehan, a strategic management consultancy, specializing in lifestyle, automotive, mobile technology, and travel. Named after the dynamic upstarts in Kipling’s classic The Man Who Would Be King, Dravot & Carnehan is inspired by those who blaze their own trails with character and flair. 

With Dravot & Carnehan, Jared and his wife Brooke identified a gap in the market and pioneered a new approach to motorcycles as art. Hosted at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California, “Legend of the Motorcycle” was launched in 2006 as the first world-class concours d'elegance exclusively for motorcycles, attracting a burgeoning international audience of collectors, judges and aficionados.

The Wall Street Journal, London Times, Fortune, CNN Money, and the Los Angeles Times called it the best event of its kind in the world. 

In this episode, Jared talks about his entry into motorcycling with an early `70s BMW, how his parents always had one or more British cars on the property, his friendship with the late high-flying Alain de Cadenet, and how “Legend of the Motorcycle” came about.

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