TV2 The Long Way Round

**Beemer** · 1st September 2005, 12:31

Originally Posted by crashe

Twas great to watch the first episode..... now looking forward to watching all the rest of them... especially after seeing the last 30 second segment of whats to come.

Yeah it would be great to get a copy of the series on dvd....
Ok who has a copy of it, and are you prepared to copy off a few?

Mmn, not a good thing to post publicly, do you know the fine for pirating videos, etc? You'd be putting the person who copied the DVD at risk here.

**bugjuice** · 1st September 2005, 13:13

Originally Posted by SpankMe

Just ordered the DVD from amazon.co.uk.

so, everyone round to Spanks when it gets here..
spanks spanks..

**curious george** · 1st September 2005, 13:14

Or you can order it from the site itself http://www.longwayround.com/lwr.htm
note: Amazon America doesn't have it!! Fking americans!

**hondacmx450** · 1st September 2005, 14:18

mmmm ktm well thay r missing out and rightly so bmw all the way pitty thay keep droping the bikes

**mikey** · 1st September 2005, 14:35

my one ob was those guys were dropping the bikes quite a bit, who would want to ride a heavy POS with even more gear around the worl. its what a suppoort crew is for.

**bugjuice** · 1st September 2005, 14:47

it was Ewan at first, but he got the hang of it. Then as they jump on to take off on their epic voyage, Charley bloody drops it within seconds!!

The support crew are only at the boarder apparently. Sounds to me like it'll be the 3 bikes (Ewan, Charley and the cam bike) for the majority of the way

oh, and who saw that ding too? They got the beemers dropped off by van, so Charley was pulling one out, went backwards onto the road, then rolled it forwards and clipped the van with the bike!! literally 10 seconds of taking ownership, and a ding in the saddle box already..

**unhingedlizard** · 1st September 2005, 18:31

Sorry if this has been mentioned but i couldnt find it.

Did anyone watch the long way round last night? TV2 10.25pm?

Its the video dairy from Ewan Mcgregors trip round the world. Man it was good. This eposide was all the prep work up to when they actually left. Was well edited and funny as hell.

Remember, Wednesday TV2 10.25pm.

Looks like they have everything from beening shot at, to the support vehicle rolling to many many crashes. All in good humour.

**Skyryder** · 1st September 2005, 20:25

Didn't see it, but with fuel prices the way they are I will be going the short way round.

Skyryder

**Bob** · 2nd September 2005, 02:21

Originally Posted by unhingedlizard

Sorry if this has been mentioned but i couldnt find it.

Did anyone watch the long way round last night? TV2 10.25pm?

Its the video dairy from Ewan Mcgregors trip round the world. Man it was good. This eposide was all the prep work up to when they actually left. Was well edited and funny as hell.

Remember, Wednesday TV2 10.25pm.

Looks like they have everything from beening shot at, to the support vehicle rolling to many many crashes. All in good humour.

Keep watching - it is superb. I saw the series when it was first shown in the UK. My wife (we both ride bikes) and I decided to watch the first one out of curiosity... and were hooked. It really was a case of 'Stop everything, Long Way Round is on' each week.

And when it was finished, we bought the DVD of the series... and I got the book later as well.

You'll find yourself wanting to go out for a long ride after watching each week, it really is inspiring.

**XP@** · 2nd September 2005, 09:34

It was awsome!

Looks like they could have had a bit better project management...
But there again the trip is very possible on the smell of an oily rag.

No wonder Euans frame cracked, with the amount of gear they were carrying, totally unnecessary! But everyone who I've known who has done similar has ended up dumping or sending home a whole load of gear because it just wasn't required.

they should have gone to the horizons unlimited site which has the best information about RTW travel.

If only i had known about the camera man job... would have been on a plane back home like a shot!

**sAsLEX** · 2nd September 2005, 13:27

Originally Posted by SpankMe

Just ordered the DVD from amazon.co.uk.

just googled "long way round torrent" *dvd* should be here in 15 more hours

**T.I.E** · 2nd September 2005, 13:34

yep brillaint programme.
wish work would hurry up and get the dam tapes in so i can see more them.

**TwoSeven** · 2nd September 2005, 13:45

I was pissing meself watching it. Typical rich persons way of doing things. Buy the latest machines, shite loads of useless equipment (heck, I'm surprised they didnt pack a jacuzzi) and throw money at it. Not very many folks would create a whole company with staff just to go on a bike ride (I suspect that was done so they could claim it all back via tax).

The pic is how I used to do tours (this is medium touring 5-10k miles). This part of my trip around france - my rig is the one on the right - note the support crew's machine on the left

Still - adventure touring (which is what they are doing) is damn'd exciting stuff. I'd like to do the russia leg sometime (but on a pushbike, or small motorcycle).