Long Way Round

[Finglonga]

[mr.z]

Myself i'd love a gs, theyd do everything i'd ever want to do and a fair old bit more, only thing i dont like about bmws is the serviceing costs and the increaceing complication of them, but then i think that about most bikes anyway....

Shaft drive is something that would be a nightmare without (its makeing my next bike decision difficult to say the least! shafties rock, i wish they were an option on all production bikes!), i wouldn't say the ktm was a serious traveling (in the propper sense) bike, i was watching it thinking they are wrong choice, too much to be smashed off them...

Tank range is something i'd forgoten, 250 miles is a minimum i'd guess, many common "propper" adventure touring bikes have add on tanks available which push them to 350/400 miles+ (bloody should do though at £700 odd) i'd still want a great big jerry can on each bike too though!

I think they did a great job, they certainly didn't make it easy for themselfs! if it were me in mongolia id have given all the heavy gear to the support team and pick it back up when there was road again!

They certainly have taken a battering and saying there was (well up to now) one cracked frame incident (hardly the bikes fault) and the abs problem they have not done bad at all!!

Sigh, how i'd love to be in the middle of nowhere now with a bike, a couple of good mates and a full tank of petrol....
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[Finglonga]

[mr.z]

[Dom]

[buddha]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006B3UE6/qid%3D1100805981/202-7032328-9130212

the dvd to ther series.

[mr.z]

WOoooooooooooo!

Number five is out
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[mr.z]

This is the last one!

edit:actually maybe not the last?? are there 7 episodes?
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[tintin]

[Bendy]

[stryker]

With only Canada and America left I imagine not much interesting will happen, unless they visit the worlds biggest ball of twine.... the man with the beard of bees etc.
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[Bendy]

If you watch the hi-lights at the beginning of the very first episode, they have to ride round a massive forest fire and some bloke drives into the back of one of them on the highway.

[mr.z]

[Keith]

Oh well, the end of an adventure and a rather amazing one at that.

Couldnt believe how young the kid was who crashed into the back of Ewan, typical! Just seeing how the entire landscape and culture had changed from that of middle eastern and russian countries was bizarre. Really was a trip to remember, and I'm sure its inspired others to do similar trips.

Personally, I cant wait to get a bigger bike next year and begin travelling on that. I've wanted to travel for a good while but didnt realise it would be so rewarding!

Cant wait to get my hands on the DVD now, thats ordered on Amazon.
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[instigator]

Whens episode 7 up on torrent *humph*.......

[Dom]

[Keith]

I doubt I'll see them doing signings at any of the dealerships round here, they're all tiny showrooms!

And yeah, I do plan to travel, only in Europe though. I have friends in Belgium, so plan to ride over there in summer. (Not 18 until April) Will probably travel around for about 2 weeks with my mate then head off home. Reckon a CB500 will handle European adventures?
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[The Tot]

Nice to see the OCC guys feature on anything other than Discovery, but was such a shame that it was the last in the series. Was very interesting and gonna miss it. Still, it was a happy ending in the end.
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[Dom]

[tintin]

The end of a good series and lots of positive messages about why we all ride bikes. I thought the best bit was them saying the main reason to do it was to ride their bikes every day. I also liked the ride into New York, shame there weren't some better bikes in the convoy.

Not sure about the OCC guys, not my scene at all. I know it's about looking 'cool' but I didn't like them riding without a lid.

Let's hope it gets onto some terrestrial station so everyone can enjoy it.
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[Dom]

I finally managed to get through to this BMW garage and book a couple of tickets, it sounds like it should be good. Basically Charley and one of the presenters ('Possibly Ewan but he's probably far too busy') are going to do a talk and then they'll sign books/dvds/whatever. £10 a ticket and all of the money's going to charity, I guess Unicef. Think there's going to be four of these at various BMW bike garages so if you fancy going to one it's worth giving whichever one's nearest to you a call as from what I can tell they're not being publicised too much.

[mr.z]

https://www2.digitaldistractions.org:8080/torrents/Long%20Way%20Round%20-%20Episode%2007.torrent

Propperly the last one now [/url]
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[Gingernut]

[mr.z]

I suspect my girlfriend has got it me for christmas (might make it more bearable eh )

It will be interesting to see how many people it inspires to pack their tent and speed off tot he middle of nowhere, its been top of the dream list for quite some time... one day though....
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[Bendy]

I read the book before seeing any of the series (genius here didn't realise Sky Travel was on Freeview) and really enjoyed it, but now I've seen the shows I'm gonna read it again as I think it'll be better when you can really picture what was going on.