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Photo by Sean Howman, The Pamir highway in an unseasonably cold late October, Tajikistan

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The Pamir highway in an unseasonably
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And i'll watch it just like everyone else who says they won't.
I think you hit a few nails on the head there mate .

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Not here. If I let the wife watch soap operas I earn time out riding. I do about two hours telly a week.

She found me the book in a charity shop. Its unreadable. Still, the charity can make another pound when it goes back!

What I don't get is why two guys who can afford to just do their trip without the crew and support vehicle and pressure from sponsors wouldn't just go. I'm sure Ewan can come up with some means hiding who he is, like a bit of acting or make-up or something? I'd want to do it that way unless I was trying a career move and didn't fancy Celebrity Big Brother.

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Millionaires "What I did on my holiday" combined with product placement that'd shame a Japanese toymaker/breakfast cereal company
Think I'll go for a ride instead.
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I have to admit that I've watched and enjoyed both series. I found the Africa one actually quite entertaining. I've never been to Africa, and it was very eye-opening for me to see how beautiful some of their ride was.
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I have to admit that I've watched and enjoyed both series. I found the Africa one actually quite entertaining. I've never been to Africa, and it was very eye-opening for me to see how beautiful some of their ride was.
Same here. Marked quite a few spots on the map of places to go see for myself.
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Why not !! It's all fun and games.

And i'll watch it just like everyone else who says they won't.

Lets just hope they've read the feedback from the last trips.

A lot of their last trips were faked. Pretending to camp when they didn't etc. Faked solo sections when they we're chaperoned etc. They lost a lot of respect. But due to Ewan being such a prize for kidnappers, it will be a Saga Tour.

No doubt they will be sponsored to death too. So expect them on the new 1250GSA with 500 KG of luggage and more technology strapped to them than a CyberGoth on a space station. I can hear the buzz of drones already. lol.

Let the controversy begin.
That's disappointing. I didn't know that. On a side note if you look at the way they packed in Long Way Round vs. Long Way Down you can see that they figured out how to pack a little better. Even if all of that extra bike equipment was transferred to the support vehicles.
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It was good to watch first series like any motorcycle trip, but with second one they lost me. Anyway it's always interesting to see how you can do a trip when you have unlimited resources Medical doctors, security, 3 SUVs, spare bikes, support from home office etc etc fun yeah?

Weird, so many guys did RTW trips 100% unsupported, on cheap bikes and they haven't been even noticed...Marketing is everything. BMW knows that supplying them motorcycle not like KTM
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It was good to watch first series like any motorcycle trip, but with second one they lost me. Anyway it's always interesting to see how you can do a trip when you have unlimited resources Medical doctors, security, 3 SUVs, spare bikes, support from home office etc etc fun yeah?

Weird, so many guys did RTW trips 100% unsupported, on cheap bikes and they haven't been even noticed...Marketing is everything. BMW knows that supplying them motorcycle not like KTM

Absolutely. I've met a few overlanders that have been coming through Latin America and quite a few actually turned down sponsorship simply because they didn't want to owe anything to sponsors. No deadlines, no mandatory promotional material, etc. I can see that. Although, if someone offered me a brand new motorcycle I'd probably change my tune.
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Met a chap a couple of years ago called Steve. He did the same route on a Tiger 800. Wrote a book of his exploits, bloody good read and he did it by himself, heroic if I might say.
I won't say which group of persons were at the bike meet but I'm sure that some on this forum may have been at the same meet. You can probably see his book on Amazon....."Steve and the Tiger"
Perhaps they should contact him for a bit of real life advice?


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Marketing is everything. BMW knows that supplying them motorcycle not like KTM
I've sometimes wondered if the marketing folks at KTM are still kicking themselves for not giving them a couple of bikes to use....
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Or, they'll be slapping themselves on the back for spending nothing, getting a mention as the bike Charlie really wanted and not breaking down and being replaced with an imz?

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If they do the Ushuaia to North America run, there is going to be a lot of other bikes and riders on the film.

Adventure riding has changed a lot in the past 15 years and it is much more common to see riders in these remote areas now.

Personally I look forward to seeing it. People need to realize that adventure riding is not a competition sport. Some do it differently than others, to each his own. So even if they are heavily supported, they are still riding.
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Or, they'll be slapping themselves on the back for spending nothing, getting a mention as the bike Charlie really wanted and not breaking down and being replaced with an imz?
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LOL... Oh, I doubt it... With Charley jumping up and down and cursing a blue streak at KTM for pulling out at just about the last moment? I imagine someone got fired over it.
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I've sometimes wondered if the marketing folks at KTM are still kicking themselves for not giving them a couple of bikes to use....
well, KTM have worried rather if their big adventure bikes on that time withstand such trip and not break down, which would be bad add. KTM actually did say to them: "we think you not gonna make it" what really could mean, bikes not gonna make it
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First thought when I saw this mentioned was 'Hmm, sounds like Charlie's run out of money again'.

It does sound like flogging a dead horse one more time but at least this time the bike manufacturers won't be treating it a dubious stunt by a couple of chancers using a film crew from the local college and the networks will have their previous track record to go by. If they do it well and if EnC don't look like Darby and Joan on day leave from the care home (how long ago was LWR?) I'm sure it'll be financially successful.

I'll certainly watch it although with the same suspension of disbelief I use for every other programme on tv. It may look like they're camping in a swamp with the tent only partly visible through a cloud of mosquitoes and I'll be on the edge of my seat wondering how many diseases they'll have by morning but I'll know they were helicoptered off to a hotel and stunt campers were the ones being bitten. That's Hollywood but it won't stop me watching.

Be interesting to see who else chucks their product placement hats into the ring though. It'll be a list of the great and the good of 'adventure' travel.
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I fondly remember sitting with my wife and watching the first episode of long way round one boxing day morning (she'd got my the dvd for Christmas) we sat in all day and watched the whole thing (my wife not being into bikes but loving the whole thing).

I don't care if charlie is a bit of a charlie! or that ewan farts $100 bills.

I care that they showed the world that motorbikes and bike travel are fun and that us bikers are not all gang members who rape and pillage everywhere we go.

I welcome any new tv series, i couldnt care less what bikes they use or if they have a huge production team. if it looks good and feels good then its good for mtorcycling.

No one will be forced to watch it and if it gets more people on two wheels then all the better for it
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