Long Way Down?

Well, I've tried hard but I just can't grasp that from what others say, 'Charlie Boorman is a good bloke'

He irritated the shit outta me on LWR and yet again he's managed to do after watching Race to Dakar, which was kindly lent to me. (thanx Jimbo... ;) )

I can only describe him as a 'big girls blouse'. Thank God I don't have friends like him, I think he would certainly have been given a 'good slap' a long time ago if we had!

Talk about feckin whinge and moan. How they tolerate him on the team I'll never know. They way he talks, you'd think someone had a gun to his head... :nenau

Sorry girls, my mind is now made up 100%

HE'S A BIG FECKIN GIRL'S BLOUSE!

I must admit, I did feel sorry for Pavey and Matt, who had to wipe his arse during the race... :(

And the fact as someone mentioned earlier that he's instructed at the BM off road school, I find extremely comical... :o

'Give it up fat boy'

DD... :thumb
 
dirtydog said:
Well, I've tried hard but I just can't grasp that from what others say, 'Charlie Boorman is a good bloke'

He irritated the shit outta me on LWR and yet again he's managed to do after watching Race to Dakar, which was kindly lent to me. (thanx Jimbo... ;) )

I can only describe him as a 'big girls blouse'. Thank God I don't have friends like him, I think he would certainly have been given a 'good slap' a long time ago if we had!

Talk about feckin whinge and moan. How they tolerate him on the team I'll never know. They way he talks, you'd think someone had a gun to his head... :nenau

Sorry girls, my mind is now made up 100%

HE'S A BIG FECKIN GIRL'S BLOUSE!

I must admit, I did feel sorry for Pavey and Matt, who had to wipe his arse during the race... :(

And the fact as someone mentioned earlier that he's instructed at the BM off road school, I find extremely comical... :o

'Give it up fat boy'

DD... :thumb
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Go for it DD you tell it like you see it ;)

Matt's story was very interesting; it’s a side of the race that I don’t think we'd have got to see otherwise.

I felt very sorry and uncomfortable about all the footage covering Andy Coldacott's dreadful accident, I'm not sure how you do go about covering something like that as part of the story, but to me it did feel very invasive, particularly when if its anything like LWR it will be something that is aired again and again. :(
 
In the Race to Dakar did anyone else notice how pissed off Si was at Charlie for coming in and asking him stupid questions?
 
god yes... and pre-race when they had to would out who was going to make team decisions, especially race decisions.

actually hats off to Si for keeping his cool, or maybe that was just good editing
 
Hope Claudio comes back as the camera man, he was quality in the first one.

And why is the producer spending so much time in front of the camera..?? That seriously hurts me head!
 
stop spanking the monkey

Old FTW:rob owns an 1150 Adv, bought the LWR dvd and met Chaz Boorman at a 'charadie' bash-he came over as a top bloke, after reading the LWR book it seems the dvd/tv series did Chaz an injustice, Saint Ewan of McGregor threw his toys out of the pram more times than Chaz (According to the book), I have never met Ewan, Claudio or Russ so am unable to comment on their personalities, but I thought Chaz was a decent bloke and as for his wife HUBBA HUBBA!!!:bow
 
Long Way Down looks like definately happening in 2007. The LWR website now has a 'headline' indicating that detailed info will be posted 'soon'. The Amazon.co.uk website is taking advanced bookings for the book - available October 2007.

Cheers
 
Hi
I watched LWR and thought it was brilliant. Never met any of the guys involved but I thought they achieved something special, like all the guys who do that long distance stuff and they all have my admiration.:clap :bow :bow
Yup it certainly helped Mr BMW flog a shit-load of bikes and I'm certain the guys at KTM were kicking themselves afterwards but I dont think a KTM would have served them as well as the GS, but I may be wrong.
What I do know is that whoever you are it takes some skill and a lot of bottle to do anything like that and if it can entertain me as well from the comfort of my sofa then who am I to have a go. :rob
There is sod all about bikes on the TV so anything like that is heaven sent.
The long way down.......bring it on, I'll watch it, buy it and read it. you never know, I might have a go my self one day.....must see the bank manager.:rolleyes:

Cess staring in "Long Way....to the shops" (Sponsers anyone?)
 
Latest McGregor interview

This was in todays Guardian in a film review about his latest release.....

Edited to the motorbike relevant piece..

"When he needs a shot of autonomy himself, McGregor always has his motorbikes. "I had this childhood craze for bikes, the shape of them, the sound of them, the idea of being able to ride one. I still wonder at it, that I've got a licence." In 2004, inspired by Ted Simon's book Jupiter's Travels, he and a friend biked 20,000 miles through Europe, Mongolia and Canada, fundraising and visiting Unicef projects. Next year, they plan to do another trip, this time from John O'Groats to Cape Town. (Eve, evidently tiring of her role as a biking widow, is learning to ride, too, and will join them for the stretch between Malawi and Victoria Falls.) "Your life just becomes really simple," says McGregor. "Petrol in your tank, food, somewhere to sleep - that's it, that's what you need. There's something really nice about that simplicity."

As for the bikes, he has eight, which sounds rather Hollywood, but none is particularly flash. Most are reconstituted eBay wrecks (his positive feedback is, he says with satisfaction, 100%). A perfect day would involve taking each one out, one after the other, like a jockey exercising a string of horses: a hack of 10, 15 miles, the same route each time, just to keep the batteries topped up. "I love the feeling of riding them, the state of mind I get into, bumbling along on a bike. I find myself really at peace." He gets quite excited, describing his latest eBay purchase: 'An old 1950s bike that didn't work, and I took it completely apart in my shed, like a big Airfix kit. I've rebuilt it, and it works now. Hours and hours went by in my shed ... It was like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Building. Brilliant."

Make of that what you will. Personally i am not interested whether motorcycling has a good image. To me that me means more dorks/assholes fashion types get into it for the wrong reasons. Rather it was still seen as a dark art.....

D.
 
Gordon said:
Long Way Down looks like definately happening in 2007. The LWR website now has a 'headline' indicating that detailed info will be posted 'soon'. The Amazon.co.uk website is taking advanced bookings for the book - available October 2007.

Cheers
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I pre-ordered the book this morning.

I must remeber not to give my future father in law a copy of it as I did with Long Way Round. Although David is a man with a sense of adventure and a former biker, he is also a former English teacher. Not impressed.

Even if it's not a literary masterpiece I'm looking forward it :thumb
 
Tasy's BIGJIM said:
What will be will be. :bow
I'm selling up to fund an early Retirement. Mum is in a Home? So a little while yet. Then myself and the old GS1100 ( White like the origanal)...to start in Africa head north. No, I don't wont a new one. (Read the 100s of complaints in the forums to see why)?
That Trip "The Long Way Round" certainly did change my life! Yeah I saw Faults. But I didn't care. Those two will never read this but if I ever see them? I will thank them.
Any way one and all take care and so sorry if I have touched anyones nerves. I only mean you well?
Ride for Freedom. (from the Land of Convicts).
BIGJim. Tasmania. :beerjug:
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FTW said:
Old FTW:rob owns an 1150 Adv, bought the LWR dvd and met Chaz Boorman at a 'charadie' bash-he came over as a top bloke, after reading the LWR book it seems the dvd/tv series did Chaz an injustice, Saint Ewan of McGregor threw his toys out of the pram more times than Chaz (According to the book), I have never met Ewan, Claudio or Russ so am unable to comment on their personalities, but I thought Chaz was a decent bloke and as for his wife HUBBA HUBBA!!!:bow
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I'm with you FTW, Charley comes across a decent sort of bloke. Read the book, DVD, Bike, 'T' shirt etc. etc. Real inspiring stuff. Yes, there were obviously things behind the scenes as these things dont make themselves, but it had to pay for itself somehow. Thought out of them all, Ewan was a luvvie, every freebie, T shirt etc, and how many changes of clothing do you need!!! No wonder the frame broke. Looking forward to the Long Way Down' or whatever they call it, it'll make good TV when it's p*****g down.:thumb
 
Looks to me like they're going to be riding 1200 gsa's ,cos if you go on the lwr site there is an option to download clips or whole shows .. albeit at a price:augie and you see a short video of the pair talking about the upcoming trip whilst leaning on an adventure ,which looks to me like it has a lowered seat ;) ;)
 
I didn't watch LWR but I just read the book this week. I was dissapointed, not by the adventure but by the attitude of the two plonkers to the journey, to their camera man and the support crew. Too much bursting into tears and too many spat dummies for me.

Now if you want to read about some hard core round the world travel suggest picking up Nick Sanders book, now there is a bloke who is well 'ard. Mentally unbalanced, but well ard:D
 
Terzikat said:
Now if you want to read about some hard core round the world travel suggest picking up Nick Sanders book, now there is a bloke who is well 'ard. Mentally unbalanced, but well ard:D
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Now I enjoyed LWR and, has been said by others before me, the fact that they got up and did it, regardless of the money/fame involved, is enough for me.

Nick Sanders....met him last year and he seemed pretty normal, bit eccentric, but overall a regular guy. I'm reading his book now and in this he comes across as a bit more than eccentric! I sometimes get lost in his poetic ramblings and forget that this is a book about a journey.

Read Ted Simon - now there was a guy who could take you on a mental journey!
 
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