I watched a little of this on YouTube,looks interesting.
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I watched a little of this on YouTube,looks interesting.
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A friend mentioned LWR several years ago while we were talking about McGregor's narration of the Faster movies about MotoGp, and he mentioned that McGregor was a motorbike nut and that he and another guy rode round the world on GS12s and made a movie about it. I parked that info. I had no use for it at the time, but I hoard information of that sort. For the last year, I've been in the mood to park the sport bikes after 30 years and get back to my off-road beginnings with a GS, and perhaps now I'm old enough to consider relaxing tours rather than high-intensity knee dragging. The bike decision has been ramping up to where I'm ready to make a purchase this summer.
Last week, one early evening around 7:00pm, I was sloshing around the internet, hemming and hawing over the merits of an F800GS-A or an R1200GS-A, that disused info about McGregor's trip came dislodged and I promptly hopped over to NetFlix and found it. I watched it straight through that whole night. The next day I started (and finished) LWD. Excellent shows. LWR over LWD by a long shot. LWR was just a couple cats running round on bikes having a great time seeing what they see and meeting who they meet and dropping big bikes in bigger mud holes. It was fantastic! LWD seemed more like it was planned by a publicist with all manner of "special" way points and pre-arranged VIP access. Who gets to ride a bike up the side of the Great Pyramids of Giza? Surely not me, but Ewan McGregor did and there was no one else around. It's as if they closed the Pyramids for them. It didn't twang in my heart as something I can do too (money and time permitting, of course), like LWR did. It just seemed like another thing that movie stars get to do when their people call ahead to government officials and they bring TV cameras. I'll concede that the meeting with the President of Rwanda was spontaneous. I buy that, but a private tour of Roman ruins in Lybia? Flying in to meet up with Richard Effing Branson for some self-indulgent Unicef crap? Granted, it didn't stop me watching it all straight through.
The upshot of the Long Way Round/Down series? Question answered: R1200GS Adventure in Olive Green it is! Screw that silly little F800GS Adventure. I don't know and therefore don't trust it's engine, I've been maintaining chains since I was five and would love to stop doing so, and I really don't want to go back to inner tubes.
Jim
2009 Ducati Monster 1100
2009 Suzuki RSV650 Gladius
2001 DRZ400E
1981 RM465
1997 BMW 528I (54K miles)
(All for sale to fund a 2014 BMW R1200GS Adventure)
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Last week, one early evening around 7:00pm, I was sloshing around the internet, hemming and hawing over the merits of an F800GS-A or an R1200GS-A, that disused info about McGregor's trip came dislodged and I promptly hopped over to NetFlix and found it. I watched it straight through that whole night. The next day I started (and finished) LWD. Excellent shows. LWR over LWD by a long shot. LWR was just a couple cats running round on bikes having a great time seeing what they see and meeting who they meet and dropping big bikes in bigger mud holes. It was fantastic! LWD seemed more like it was planned by a publicist with all manner of "special" way points and pre-arranged VIP access. Who gets to ride a bike up the side of the Great Pyramids of Giza? Surely not me, but Ewan McGregor did and there was no one else around. It's as if they closed the Pyramids for them. It didn't twang in my heart as something I can do too (money and time permitting, of course), like LWR did. It just seemed like another thing that movie stars get to do when their people call ahead to government officials and they bring TV cameras. I'll concede that the meeting with the President of Rwanda was spontaneous. I buy that, but a private tour of Roman ruins in Lybia? Flying in to meet up with Richard Effing Branson for some self-indulgent Unicef crap? Granted, it didn't stop me watching it all straight through.
The upshot of the Long Way Round/Down series? Question answered: R1200GS Adventure in Olive Green it is! Screw that silly little F800GS Adventure. I don't know and therefore don't trust it's engine, I've been maintaining chains since I was five and would love to stop doing so, and I really don't want to go back to inner tubes.
Jim
2009 Ducati Monster 1100
2009 Suzuki RSV650 Gladius
2001 DRZ400E
1981 RM465
1997 BMW 528I (54K miles)
(All for sale to fund a 2014 BMW R1200GS Adventure)
.
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UK4X4
Expedition Leader
Pyramids.....they are right on the edge of the capital and next to a main road !
View from inside Pizza hut !
Libya ruins, there's a caretaker and no tourists, so everyone gets a private tour...even me !
can't remember if this is the guide or my driver !
Mr Branson, one of the most down to earth billionaires on the planet, yes he flew them in, why not a bit more publicity for helping people is always worth it
His first company started as a mail order record business from the public telephone outside his house..then moved to a house boat on the Thames, one the classic self start businessmen of the last 30 years.
Of course its TV, of course it helped
most ADV riders go with zero support and a cc card, but did it make for good TV - and probably brought travel motorcycling to the masses
View from inside Pizza hut !
Libya ruins, there's a caretaker and no tourists, so everyone gets a private tour...even me !
can't remember if this is the guide or my driver !
Mr Branson, one of the most down to earth billionaires on the planet, yes he flew them in, why not a bit more publicity for helping people is always worth it
His first company started as a mail order record business from the public telephone outside his house..then moved to a house boat on the Thames, one the classic self start businessmen of the last 30 years.
Of course its TV, of course it helped
most ADV riders go with zero support and a cc card, but did it make for good TV - and probably brought travel motorcycling to the masses
I agree that I prefer LWR to LWD. Yes LWD felt more of a controlled environment, but I also got the distinct sensation they were with the crew the whole time. LWR they were pretty clearly on their own for long stretches, until the last stretch in Russia. LWRs big letdown is that the USA and Canada seemed like a boring afterthought. They could have actually done some really nice riding in this continent even if they wanted to stay on pavement, but they rode through plains.
Nonetheless they are fun shows, and in many ways they kick started the adventure bike trend. (Yes, those bikes existed before the show, but the long slow popularity growth can trace itself back to LWR.)
Nonetheless they are fun shows, and in many ways they kick started the adventure bike trend. (Yes, those bikes existed before the show, but the long slow popularity growth can trace itself back to LWR.)
RunninRubicon
Adventurer
Love the shows!! Reminds me of "Then came Bronson." The shows make me happy that I have a GSA sitting in my garage that gets used for the same thing. Unfortunately, I don't possess the fame and fortune to afford an around the world adventure as they did. My luck I'd get stuck at any number of the borders that they got past by having fame.....and bribe money.
I credit Ewan and Charlie for showing the way. I completely get Charlie's aversion toward popping wheelies!!
I credit Ewan and Charlie for showing the way. I completely get Charlie's aversion toward popping wheelies!!
plutonic
Outsider
Maverick1701
Adventurer
found another cool show on hulu of all places called "the middle kingdom ride"
It is about two brothers who take 2 bmw800s around china. I just started it but it the show looked pretty interesting.
http://www.hulu.com/the-middle-kingdom-ride
It is about two brothers who take 2 bmw800s around china. I just started it but it the show looked pretty interesting.
http://www.hulu.com/the-middle-kingdom-ride
mr_ed
Toolbag
Four words: "Mondo Enduro" and "Terra Circa." Like LWR and LWD, but longer, harder, more adventure and stepping into the unknown, and no camera crews, $100k worth of bikes, trucks, and gear, and no Claudio whining about how risk-taking, hardcore, and truly bad*** the riders are...
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RHINO
Expedition Leader
dont forget mondo sahara!! so many good moto related movies out there,,,, especially if you start in on youtube. just need to filter out the good from the regular.
alex chacon has a great youtube channel,,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85VErvTqgWc
motorcycle adventure dirtbike tv also has a great channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKqHXIsFkmA
i want to go to russia to meet and ride with these guys for a season http://offroadpeople.ru/
visit http://motologyfilms.com/ its incredible. teasers of my two favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhWR5jjGzfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VmA-E75Z5Q
i could do this all day, literally been riding all my life and strictly dual sport since i was 16, ive ridden much of USA and a few countires so i'm always seeking out these kinds of rides and movies.
alex chacon has a great youtube channel,,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85VErvTqgWc
motorcycle adventure dirtbike tv also has a great channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKqHXIsFkmA
i want to go to russia to meet and ride with these guys for a season http://offroadpeople.ru/
visit http://motologyfilms.com/ its incredible. teasers of my two favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhWR5jjGzfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VmA-E75Z5Q
i could do this all day, literally been riding all my life and strictly dual sport since i was 16, ive ridden much of USA and a few countires so i'm always seeking out these kinds of rides and movies.
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