Long Way Down

[wiganer516]

Has any1 watched that bike trip on telly with that actor fella Ewan Mcgregor from John o Groats to Cape town, Ive followed it every program, I said to the Mrs If I could still ride I would love to do a long trip maybe not that far but just seemed an amazing experience. Saying that he can afford to do a trip like that.

[kazy]

It was a great series, I watched most of them. Wouldnt it be great if you could have 3 months off work to do that.
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[Itchy]

the trick is to do this inbetween jobs , I think
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[deanoet]

Or get a courier job to cape town.

Edit
And on topic.
Yeah i watched it all, looked like a good trip.

Would love to do something like that, maybe not africa cos i have a teddy named Mohammed, but a european one yeah...
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[DynaMight]

Just watched the Long Way Around too, It made the Long Way Down seem like a walk in the park
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[Ichy]

I think they should go Pole to Pole next. Up to the North Pole then down through Canada and South America.

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[Bofh5]

Yeah agree totally. Long Way Round was brilliant. A real adventure especially in Mongolia and Siberia.
Long Way Down just wasn't the same. Seemed rushed and the Ewan / Charlie / Claudio relationship of mates on bikes having fun just wasn't there.
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[Finglonga]

Long Way Down was no where near as good as LWR. I wont be buying it on DVD when it comes out.
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[Kal]

[iooi]

Seems if you are a bit flush and have a few weeks to spare, you can.....

Linky

[Finglonga]

[td007]

yes seen every episode great also the other bloke not ewon has got another dvd out

i would love to do somthing like that

[sagalout]

I think one of the things that spoiled this one a bit was the number of interactions with the support trucks .

In LWR they were covering vast countries where you could ride for days, in some cases weeks without hitting a border, leading to much more campig and less meets with the trucks. In Africa its made up of lots of relatively small countries - in some cases they were crossing borders every 300 miles or so. Of course they could have got round this by carrying their own documentation etc, but I think with the tight timescales they set themselves the risk of losing documents would have balsed up the who itiinery.

I still enjoyed it, especially the 2nd half, but LWR was better.

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[Kal]

[D O G]

I have been disappointed. In comparison to LWR is was poop. Too rushed, too little of the bikes and the 'journey'. The concept has clearly been hijacked by producers to satisfy a Sunday night viewer. Shame, as it loses its appeal to bikers, but would probably have increased the appeal to Joe Average.

[Bofh5]

Charlie did Race to Dakar.
From Lisbon - Dakar with Simon Pavey and another guy.
Very enjoyable and great insight into what goes on behind the scenes.
Felt sorry for Charlie going out so soon into the rally but he did really well. The road books looked so complex etc.
Well worth watching and the book is a good read.
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[craigs23]

I only watched it to lull me to sleep on a Sunday night.

Was really disappointed. I defended the programme a little to the beginning, but it just never really started for me.

No sense of adventure, no great outdoors, just seemed like an off road motorway down to Cape Town.

Not as good as Race to Dakar, no where near LWR. I think it's become too glamourised - the life and soul of such an 'adventure' milked from it.

What a shame.

[Bofh5]

the life and soul of such an 'adventure' milked from it.

Sums it up for me perfectly. Good choice of words

[Ben.]

anyone got a clicky for long way around?
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