Long Way Down trip

[FlyBri]

Anyone heard anything about the latest expedition planned by Charlie Boorman / Ewan McGregor? Apparently from John O'Groats to South Africa if memory serves but I haven't heard when that'll be etc.

Cheers

Bri

[veeeffarr]

Some time this year LOL.

Can't wait.

[iamBevan]

That should be amazing, I was a massive fan of Long Way Round. Charlie's Race To Dakar is amazing to

[map]

Quick search and amazon.com has Long Way Down already listed and due to be published 4 Oct 2007.
So expect the trip, and I'm sure the associated TV show on Sky, sometime before that.

Then this report says that Ewan's wife, Eve, will be joining them for 3 weeks in the middle of the trip.

HTH
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[Squiffy_The_Wombat]

brilliant, i love these two, and the way they promote biking is great! Hats off to them i say!
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[polarman]

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'Long Way Down - 3 week Late night special'

Both been amazing so far, feel sorry for Mr Borman messing up his hands the way he did!

Should be good, i wonder which BMW they'll be riding... silly KTM missed a BIG trick there.
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[bigwill]

cant wait, Long Way Round was fantastic. I briefly met Charlie at the bike show and its so cool to meet someone so "up for it" about biking.
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[khoock]

Long Way Down is scheduled for Sept 2007. I imagine details will get posted on https://www.longwayround.com/ as it appears
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[Racheldawn]

I loved the long way round and Race to Dakar also. Ewan McGregor is bloomin funny..! They had to have so much skill, its was really interesting to watch them training and all the strange experiences they had.

[Pete.]

To me Charlie appeared to be much the better of the two riders. Gotta admire the balls of that cameraman dude just passed his test and set off around the world.

I offered Charlie a turn at top-speed flyers on my tubo-bike. He said he was up for it and gave me a contact email but I never got a reply
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Racheldawn]

Your probably right about Charlie because he did Race to Dakar, he didnt complete it though, shows how hard it must be.

[ISLAND GIRL]

I loved both the long way round and race to dakar, looking forward to this next one, love both these guys too, they are so likeable
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[chris___]

Really looking forward to this, loved Long Way Round and Race To Dakar.
Long Way Round was on TV just as I was learning to ride so I found it really inspiring.
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[Jamie S]

i seen the race to daka on sky last night and it messed with my head as it couldant be the new one but one of the guys broke his hand and they broke the support cars rear suspention so could it have been the new one (i thought it hadent been filmed yet )

[FlyBri]

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[FlyBri]

Totally disagree - BMW bikes couldn't have come out of it looking better. Bare in mind how strong the 1100 GS sales are now in comparison to similar bikes before it showed. All those miles and no 'serious' faults - that's pretty impressive considering I think they only had 2 services during the route on the long way round. RE the car being crap in the race to dakar, if I were in the market for a serious off roader, I wouldn't buy and X5 anyway and I think most people who buy them live in cities so no big deal really.

I guess they'll be keeping the timing of their route very quiet for the Long Way Round as otherwise they'll be on one giant ride out through europe!

Bri

[G]

Suspect a lot of the people who buy the GS live in cities too .

[veeeffarr]

Sorry it was a good watch but I don't really think they achieved much what with the big fuckoff support crew and massive budget to plan routes, etc

It's not like they did it themselves, they had shitloads of help whereas our very own Nath from these boards did it with a rat bike and no support vehicles/budget.

I know which one's the bigger achievement out of the two.

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[Pete.]

I asked Charlie at the ally pally show if he thought the KTM would have made it all the way, and he said no. I wasn't expecting him to say anything else mind since he was BMW-sponsored, but he did sound sincere and he seemed to consider it before answering.

Funny thing that happened was a little boy who stood patiently for 15 minutes for his poster to be signed. Whe I got to the front of the queue I pointed him out to charlie and he said "sure" but when he unrolled the poster - It was a KTM
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[bigwill]

[veeeffarr]

I don't mind people disagreeing with me but jamie could you please explain why you disagree with what I posted?

I just think Nath achieved a lot more than they did...

[_Will_]

Nick saunders did the world on an R1

Really looking forward to this, can't remember where i found out but its been in the pipes a while, if they were to actually do the trip in the summer it would be cool as thats when i'm planning to ride to africa


(mind you mine is more of a sissy run )
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