Last Hurrah DVD Screenings Across New Zealand

[Beemer]

Gee Merv, if you'd posted this anywhere other than in the bloody adventure bikes section I'd bet Des would have had a larger crowd in Palmy last night, that's for sure! We found out through our bike club and 9 of the 14 there were our members!

Very poor showing from Palmy - and the worst part was, nobody seemed to know about it. There was one other couple - obviously KBers, and an old guy, and that was it. That was the main reason I didn't post it in the events section because that seemed to be mostly rides.

[Geordie]

Hey, whoevers organizing it? They can have a copy of my seven minute short movie on DVD, 'The Worlds Fastest Mexican' to play along with it. make a night of it, its a spoof of that other famous film 'Worlds Fastest Indian'. storyline - Pepe Lopez, a Mexican lawnmower mechanic, dreams of going to New Zealand and race his homemade motorcycle and breaking the 100 MPH speed record...

[Geordie]

Hey, whoevers organizing it? They can have a copy of my seven minute short movie on DVD, 'The Worlds Fastest Mexican' to play along with it. make a night of it, its a spoof of that other famous film 'Worlds Fastest Indian'. storyline - Pepe Lopez, a Mexican lawnmower mechanic, dreams of going to New Zealand and race his homemade motorcycle and breaking the 100 MPH speed record...

see picture of the star Pepe,

[merv]

Gee Merv, if you'd posted this anywhere other than in the bloody adventure bikes section I'd bet Des would have had a larger crowd in Palmy last night, that's for sure! We found out through our bike club and 9 of the 14 there were our members!

Hi back from Aussie, shame to see the turnouts poor.

I put in it the group I thought it belonged in and imagined most were like me and just always look at the new posts anyway so to counter that I went to the trouble of listing every single showing in the calendar of events so they were popping up on the home page every day right in front of your nose - geez what more can a guy do and then I was only doing it for everyone else's benefit as I'd already seen the DVD at the launch down here.

It was advertised through other motorcycle clubs too but still the turnout was poor - so how come we got a packed theatre in Wellington of about 500 or so as the advertising was no better for that?

[Warr]

Please remove ... Ment to post into Waikato thread .. Ops

[NZHog]

Thansk for the heads up on this Merv. I went to the 8pm showing in Auckland tonight. EXCELLENT! Very happy to recommend it. The 6pm showing was better attended but it was definately worth having a look at.
Amazing achievement. I have been very blessed to meet some great motorcyclists who inspire & encourage you to embrace & enjoy life! Granted it will make you feel like a soft arsed piker LOL.
Way too adventurous for me!

[Crisis management]

I haven't been to the screenings, just bought the book & DVD.... I've only seen the DVD so far but can only imagine how hard that must have been in real life.
This week the book!

It's only $50 for both, get out there and buy!

[merv]

Good to hear some feedback and for those that still have a screening coming to their town just be there!

[Wolf]

Went to the Hamilton screening last night and thoroughly enjoyed watching the DVD and meeting Des - I could have listened to him speak for hours!

Turnout was piss-poor despite Warr's extensive texting campaign. I didn't count heads but I could have... few enough there I could have just as easily counted the legs and divided by 2...

And I was the only one to turn up on a motorbike! I expected the bike park on Worley Place to be nearly full but when I got there there was only a scooter and some mouth-breathing in-breed had parked his fucking cage in the bike park, taking up half of it. The scooter rider obviously wasn't at the screening as I was the only one with a helmet and the mouth breather wasn't there because a) there was no one there with six toes on each foot and a drooling problem and b) wankers who park cages motorbike parks are not the sort to go to motorcycle movies.

Those in towns yet to be visited: I highly recommend you grab the opportunity to see this DVD meet Des.

It was fascinating - from the point of view of one who would love to make similar tours - to learn the rigamarole they had to go through to ride their own bikes in China and Mongolia (technically you can't, and they had to be registered as a tour company, get their bikes registered in China and Mongolia, sit local riding licences, have support vehicles and tour guides etc.)

Really sorry to learn of Dick's stroke and glad to hear he's recovered enough to be riding again.

Strayjuliet wasn't there because she had another commitment but I bought the book and the DVD so we sat up until half past one this morning watching the DVD and I tried to fill in the details that Des told us while it was all fresh in my mind.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching the DVD ("Katrina's story", as Des calls it) and I look forward to reading Des' story in the book.

[clint640]

Didn't make the Tauranga showing as I was planning to as I'm stuck in D'Auckland for work, but a mate who I had mentioned it to went along & said it was packed out with more people queing up in case some one who had booked didn't turn up. Luckily he had called up 1st & got tickets.

He reckoned it was bloody good & bought both the book & DVD afterwards.

Cheers
Clint

[merv]

So Tauranga must be the adventure capital of NZ after Wellington then. Glad you guys enjoyed this.

I'm just amazed after posting so much on here about the DVD and the showings and putting the dates in the calendar on the home page we weren't able to drum up more interest in a NZ biker story.

[warewolf]

Went to the Nelson screening last night. Good stuff!

Due to demand they added a second screening in another smaller theatre, and that one only had a handful of seats left, too. There was a small article on page 2 of last week's freebie paper, and an ad inside the back page. No doubt helped to drum up viewers.

Dick certainly wins the prize for the best comments.

[NordieBoy]

Hmmm...
4 days ago...
Damn...

Home page?
Bugger...

[merv]

Yes Nordie keep an eye out on the home page for the calendar of events.

[bell]

Well worth seeing. These guys gave real meaning to 'following your dream' and 'courageous' and 'adventure' and so on. Left the theatre thinking it was a privelege to have shared their story. Go see it if you can.