Well I liked it, not as much as I liked Long Way Round, but that's because it seemed a bit rushed - and that's not really their fault, it's whichever commisioning editor asked for 6 one-hour programmes, no doubt there's hours of extra footage which could have been used.

As for the fire, come on guys it's TV, they didn't leave the fire burning, they (or more likely Claudio/Russ/David/Jimmy) decided it'd be a nice shot of them riding with the camera angle looking through the smoke and flames, so they shot it like that, probably even did a number of takes, and no doubt all stamped on all the embers at the end - get real, it's TV.

And the support crew? No doubt half of that was a condition of the insurance brokers who were a condition of the production getting any comminsioning money etc. The rest? Well can you really fit all that tape stock, and various TV quality video cameras, and editing facilities etc on the back of a bike? Methinks not. Then Claudio's bike breaks and has to be trailered, so of course we're going to see the support vehicles closer in, because they become then only camera vehicles. And so it goes on.

Whatsmore, I don't doubt for a second that either of them love bikes, love riding, and take every opportunity to get away from it all for a day or week whatever, with no-one but themselves.

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