Long Way Up

[Dabz]

At last, a follow on to Long Way Round and Long Way Down. Shame it's on Apple TV this time but hopefully it'll be out on dvd eventually.

Interesting that they're on electric Harley prototypes too. Not sure what that'll do for the adventure...you can hardly disappear off to the middle of nowhere for a week with a couple jerry cans of electricity.

https://apple-tv-plus-press.apple.com/en-US/news/2020/08/apple-tv-unveils-first-look-at-long-way-up-a-new-original-unscripted-series-starring-ewan-mcgregor-and-charley-boorman/

[BB]

At last, a follow on to Long Way Round and Long Way Down. Shame it's on Apple TV this time but hopefully it'll be out on dvd eventually.

Interesting that they're on electric Harley prototypes too. Not sure what that'll do for the adventure...you can hardly disappear off to the middle of nowhere for a week with a couple jerry cans of electricity.

https://apple-tv-plus-press.apple.com/en-US/news/2020/08/apple-tv-unveils-first-look-at-long-way-up-a-new-original-unscripted-series-starring-ewan-mcgregor-and-charley-boorman/

Exactly, will be interesting to see how they get on ;)

[Last Train]

:cool:

I loved the first one :)

[WR6133]

Not sure what that'll do for the adventure...

Maximise their income from HD's shilling, not that I blame them and I look forward to watching it. Not on Apple TV though which seems an odd choice.

[Dabz]

https://www.harley-davidson.com/gb/en/motorcycles/livewire.html

98 miles of range in a city...so I bet HD send a support crew and they switch to new bikes when the charge runs out. Otherwise in 100 days they’d only do 10,000 miles not 13,000 given an 8 hour recharge time.

Not exactly a touring bike

[BB]

Nope, they need a longer extension lead! lol

[Scotty]

I read some stuff on the Adventure Rider forum a while ago saying that Ewan & Charley’s accompanying support crew carried generators - I’m sure that if this were to be true there wouldn’t be any evidence of them escaping the editor’s knife to keep the products of the major sponsor of the trip from looking bad... somebody gives you free bikes and bankrolls your latest jolly, you don’t make ‘em look stupid...

We’ve just started re-watching Long Way Round and while it’s entertaining and slickly produced, Austin Vince’s trips such as Terra Circa and Mondo Enduro are far more authentic - a bunch of guys riding relatively low-tech bikes all over the world, no big names or big budgets, and importantly NO SUPPORT CREWS IN 4x4s! If you haven’t seen any of these, they’re well worth tracking down. That said, we’ll no doubt watch Ewan & Charley’s latest one when it’s more widely available.

[WR6133]

With the crew following, they had the same for the BMW's I believe they even had spare bikes. It's entertainment not real adventure. I think if you want to do it "hardcore", you buy a Royal Enfield Himalayan. Internet seems full of videos of people riding them round the world solo.

[Dabz]

I'm hoping it'll be entertaining. As far as advertising the HD goes, there's no way a 98 mile range can be a sensible purchase - least not for £29k. The mid-rideout splash and dash turns in to many hours sat waiting for charge? I think not

[Last Train]

If you’re interested, Have a read of this,

1845

It was the inspiration for Long Way Round.

[BB]

If you’re interested, Have a read of this,

1845

It was the inspiration for Long Way Round.

I've got that, had it about 30 years but strangely never read it lol

[DC]

I've got that, had it about 30 years but strangely never read it lol

I read Jupiter's Travels years ago , and not long after I bought the Bonny , I read the follow up , Dreaming of Jupiter which came out in 2007 , both books are well worth a read .

[Scotty]

If anyone likes the idea of motorcycle travel books, then (in addition to Jupiter's Travels) I'd strongly recommend the books by Lois Pryce (details here: https://www.loisontheloose.com ) - she's made a few interesting trips and written great books describing them. I've seen her give talks locally a couple of times (last time was at the Marlborough Literary Festival a couple of years ago) and she's a great speaker.

On Lois' trips there's her and a bike... nothing more, no buddy or accompanying cameraman, no 4x4s full of support staff and spare parts. All of her books are a good read, and if she does a live talk locally then it's definitely worth going.

[Dabz]

Speaking to a member of the public at the end-of-the-journey event, Boorman said the charging wasn’t too difficult, although they did sometimes have to rely on locals with generators in the wilder parts of their journey.

Once they got into the US charging stations were apparently plentiful, enabling them to up their average daily distance to 300 miles from around 150 while they were in the south.

For much of the journey they were followed by petrol and diesel-powered vehicles, which ferried battery packs around to keep the bikes topped up.

[Scotty]

....For much of the journey they were followed by petrol and diesel-powered vehicles, which ferried battery packs around to keep the bikes topped up.

Hmmmm.... doesn't quite inspire confidence in the electric bike being a proper adventure tool yet does it?

[BB]

Hmmmm.... doesn't quite inspire confidence in the electric bike being a proper adventure tool yet does it?

Certainly doesn't!