Celebrate 20 years of Long Way Round with Charley Boorman and MCN! | Devitt London Motorcycle Show
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Come and meet Long Way Round star Charley Boorman at the 2024 Devitt MCN London Motorcycle Show at London's Excel from 16-18 February 2024.
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Did you enjoy the Long Way Round series? Tell us below!
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No you won't tell them, or no you didn't like it?
After watching that I fell in love with adv riding and started dreaming about having and adv bike. Many years later I got one (bmw gs of course), did some great trips, traded in the bike last week and ordered a new 1300gs :-) I'm a big fan of all the three Long Ways. Love the whole Charlie and Ewan's team. Hope They'll make another Long Way
Loved it! Waiting for the next one!
Yes. Bought the DVD series. Loved it. Bought the rest, Long way down, race to Dakar etc as they came out and also watched those that were streamed.
Absolutely brilliant series,time for a new one 😊
Just not on electric bikes again. Would almost like to see them do the South American trip again on adventure bikes.
I have the DVD and when i feel the urge i watch the whole thing, fantastic trip and what an experience it would have been.
Really great show that inspired me to go motorcycling. It is the best thing in my life.
First proper series of anything I ever watched, their series helped me get through boredom of Lockdown and as soon as I could I did my own trip 28 nights to Athens from London. Looking at tickets for the MCN show now 😎
I loved this series. I know Itchy does it all on her own, and she is a true heroin, but this show was just so much fun to watch: the banter, the honest dialogue, the generosity to local people. Great entertainment value and a reminder to all those riders out there that adventure has many disguises and variations. Some are more collective and better prepared, others are solo, improvised and on shoe string. The main thing is to experience the excitement of new horizons, other landscapes, and unknown cultures without sitting behind glas as if your watching a movie, but by being "it it" in the famous words of Robert Pirsig. Very inspirational. Hope there will be a part 4.
Watch c90 Adventures - Ed March is waaay more genuine, does it mostly off his own back, and tries to use his own engineering skills to solve real world problems.
“Heroin” is an opioid.
I'm sure that Ed is great, but it's a shame when people talk about Charlie and Ewan being more privileged, less genuine, having a support crew, etc. With or without a support crew, it's a genuine feat and takes a certain kind of person to do it.
In terms of adventure on media, they brought us something that we'd never had before.
Can't believe it has been 20 years. I received a copy of Long Way Round from a friend's mom for a birthday present and that had me hooked. Have also loved Charley and Russ together in By Any Means, Race to Dakar and Extreme Frontiers. Thank you both for all the great adventures I have enjoyed.
20 years sure did fly by, can't believe how young they looked! I still remember Charlie getting pissed that KTM didn't want to have anything to do with the project, oh well their loss was undoubtedly BMW's gain when the show turned out to be a success. Really owe a great deal of thanks for Charlie and Ewan for introducing adventure riding to a generation of riders!
3yrs ago it started my journey after watching you guys…hope to see you guys do it again!!!!…thanks for the Journey….
on ya boys and girls it was a beautiful journey for you guys and all off us who was lucky enough to be around to witness that or should i said them awesome trips
Blimey, I was 5 years old when this show aired. I remember vividly meeting Charlie Boorman at a Waterstones book signing with my dad at around that time. I still have his singed copy of his book today. His travels with Ewan must’ve had a huge impact as I’ve spent the start of my adulthood travelling the world. Thank you Charlie.
I remember watching the first series like it was yesterday. Simply Awesome! Now I’m all of a sudden feeling a bit older… 😂
I can't believe that was 20 years ago. I had just turned forty and now sixty. I watched your TV series religiously and have all three books. Your book By any Means which I have a signed copy, I won in a raffle at a fundraising evening for some Bikers from the Larbert/Falkirk area in Scotland who were inspired by you guys to do a tour of the UK top to bottom on BMW GS'S the book was I believe gifted by yourself after they contacted you about their plans. One of the organisers was a very good chef who was a client of mine when I was in Banking by the name of Brian Ainslie which was the reason I attended. It was a very good evening and Brian had me seated at the top table with the guest speaker who was an ex football Manager of Dunfermline FC by the name of Jim Leishman. What a very funny speech and a most enjoyable night. Thanks for the memories.
I love their reaction when they hit the roads in North America and especially in Either Montana or North Dakota where they had miles of smooth road and no speed limits.
Loved your series. I’ve watched the Mongolia episode countless times. It’s such a dream to do a trip as you did.
Damn straight..my son and I wore out those DVD ss..he was 10 at the time... going where not many have gone before...thanks for sharing the ride..
Absolutely brilliant to relive the adventure
Amazing trip indeed….watched and enjoyed their book…..Alli South Africa
Loved the series 🤙🤙Two things I enjoy ever so often: Clips from long way round & Pink Floyd the wall, genius well made stuff, love it .... Keep riding
Such likeable guys. I need to re-watch the Long Way Round series. Easy binge watch for sure.
Watched both series back to back and was blown away. Made me want to learn to ride which eventually did in 2013, ended up buying a Yamaha XT660 as first bike then onto a new 2015GSA which was ridden all over Australia thru the outback and is now in Ireland after moving home and ready for some big European rides. This show gave me the bug of bikes so holds a found spot.
Must have watched it four or five times, always when life seemed so terribly dull it helped pick up my spirits. Now at roughly the age and positions that they were back then I’m planning my own adventures on my bike. Nothing crazy, nothing too far but for me and my buddy it’ll be an adventure. On a GS? No, far too heavy, far too expensive. But without those two lads and those two bikes I’m fairly sure I wouldn’t be riding at all.
One of the best films, series, ever. On level with Any Sunday.
Russ & Charley seem like a lovely bunch of chaps. I very much enjoyed all their adventures even the slightly suspicious electric one. I'm still not sure about the London show as I went to the NEC last year and the Excel show always feel so much smaller, but there's lots going on so I will probably make the trip. Last year's sprint was great fun!
Could , would they do it again ? Looked forward to every episode, the venture and experience that lives on .
Loved Long Way Round. In fact...I loved all the series these guys made but LWR is by far my favorite....
Love the idea of the changes over time. I had a 1981 Honda CB900F SS and wanted the gen 2 version a 2002-2007 Honda Hornet 919. Had to be in asphalt gray though. That is a cool evolution of the bike.
I was 13 when long way round first aired. Bscause of them, i had a motorcycle at 16 before i even had a car. Been riding every year since
Pleaseeeeee do another trip!!!!
Thank you, Charlie!
You quite literally changed the motorcycling industry and changed my life!
I am eternally grateful.
Time to get those DVDs again.
Thanks.
Dave "Tiger " Coward 🇨🇦
KTM missed out on the best publicity they could've ever got.
I watched long way round, long way down and long way up… and now all I’m dreaming of is a new Long Way Back, for a round trip but going in the opposite direction of Long Way Round, and going through Asia (such as New Zealand, Australia, India, etc…) back to the UK :)
Great to see Charlie and Russ together again, and YES, we so need another Charlie and Ewan road trip… eBen if it’s not half way round the world, it could just be highlighting great places to ride like the Pyrenees 😊
So what was the story again with KTM..they thought these two soft actors could never pull this off ? BMW ended up being the better choice anyways😎
More likely they knew their damn bikes wouldn't survive the trip.
If Carlsberg did bad business strategies
All I can do is reply to this wonderful comment.
KTM might be more exciting, but the GS is better at everything else.
KTM really missed a trick in this. The GS increased in popularity massively!
Hearing Russ talk about running out of food, no wonder Ewan wanted that big American breakfast when he got to Alaska.
I absolutely loved Long Way Round series, I've watched them several times.A true adventure, please do another but not on electric bikes this time....maybe the new 1300gs?
Every time I've been inside the M25 it's been stop start, I'm surprised to see you doing more than 5MPH
How many BMW bikes were used for the Long Way Round World trip ?
I feel so old hehe
Best series ever and never been surpassed. Literally don’t know what anyone could do to better it. Do you have ideas? If you started a UA-cam channel rides around the world it would be huge. Visit a country, stay there for a month and film 5-6 rides in each country.
@david hutton. Are you kidding?!
If not, search “Itchy Boots”.
Try “Itchy Boots”.
I remember it happening, I couldn't understand why all these Boomers were going misty eyed over two Dudes riding around the world.
I grew up reading about people doing the long, epic journey, then, when I started to get involved in the Motorcycle scene, I read about people building bikes and riding to Eastern Europe, or Africa.
The Berlin wall had only fallen a few years previous, building a bike and riding it into that area was a big story.
The was no maps, no guidebooks, not for bikers, and no internet, you couldn't just pop to the post office and change money, or use your phone with Google translate.
Then, I see all these Know-it-All Boomers, ranting and raving over this telly program, and was clueless as to why, surely it's just another round the world story, isn't it??? (it is...)
Looking back, I didn't realise why, now, I can see it more clearly.
I still know a lot of those people.
Most were illiterate, working on the Council, or Factory jobs, still are.
When they got into the bike scene, it was because it was a cheap way to get to work
They read about mechanicing, and Barry Sheen, not world travel, if they could read at all, and a lot of them couldn't
Right at a sensitive time in their lives, when so many of them had died from illness, accidents, many were divorced, the way of life they knew was disappearing, (It was), and they were lost and worthless, these two iconic dudes showed them something they had never even dreamed of.
Even it they couldn't get their act together to do the same thing, it was still inspirational to them.
The war on Bikers was in full swing, the big CC bikes were getting harassed off the road, and they were to old, stiff and blind to ride them fast anymore, so they went and traded them in for the BMWs, and rode from one burger van to the next.
Wild times.
The motorcycle documentary by which all future documentaries will be judged!
I love and hate this series. I love it because it’s obviously a fantastic, bonafide modern day expedition. I hate it because for the last 20 years, the whole blooming biking industry has been suffocated by adventure bikes. Lol.
Love LWR and LWD. Didn't enjoy the riding bits in LWU but the other stuff was great.
Whoever filmed this PLEASE stop moving the camera around like a drunk sailor on skates!
The creators of the old guys on way too heavy of bikes crowd. BMW will be making a 2600cc 1200lber soon and sell the crap out of them. Lol.
Garbage. Strictly for the chelsea tractor/bmw set with no imagination and fanboy t-shirts. Silver spoon softies with more back up than a WRC team.
I so loved this original series. Ground breaking TV in many ways. Skillfully filmed by Claudio von Planta pre Gopro Action cams.
Two mates with an idea who could gather a team together to make it happen.
KTM really messed up, not sponsoring them as Charlie originally wanted. It led to the popularity of the GS with so many folks wanting to emulate (or at least make people think they could ride around the world)
I had the book and the DVD and would still be happy to re-watch again now.
Not really two mates with an idea, others had done it before, the problem was they weren't celebrities who could anchor a tv series. Same with Long Way Down.
@@flippy66 I didn't say the journey was groundbreaking. Just groundbreaking TV and the way it was filmed.
At the time I think Ewan was the only one who could be described as a celebrity.
Hard to believe its 20 years ago I repaired Ewans pannier in Calgary Canada
I remember that part of the documentary. Didn’t they get hit twice in Calgary and Edmonton? Didn’t show much of Canada at all. Not a good look for our car drivers
Was that when he got rear-ended by that young kid? Young- that kid, if he is still with is now 40+/-.
Which shows you that people on motorcycles are at far greater risk from cars in cities than bears in Russia.
its not hard to believe. The man is grey and KTM (the original bikes that they were suppose to use) is about to fold. Its about right.
You lads sparked the flame that ignited a worldwide phenomenon. I might not be on a bike today had you not made that Doc. Cheers to all involved.
These two blokes helped kickstart the multi-billion dollar
Adventure Motorcycle market , which continues to grow & grow ..thanks fellas
and what a great series it was .
Started long before that for many adventurers
@@chrisnothnagel4910 Yea of course mate , but they unknowingly kicked it into top gear
& got lots more punters interested than would have been otherwise , so good on em ..
@@queenslander954 nah their fake adventure made people buy bikes that are absolutely not suited to do that therefore those people go to get coffee with 550lbs bikes.
I watched the first series with my late wife who later got me the set of the 3 for Christmas with the two hard cover books, I got signed photos of LWR and Race to Dakar, I even had a few T-Shirts. I couldn’t afford the BMW and got a Suzuki VStrom instead
I can't believe its been 20 years. Love this show! Its time for a reboot!
Thanks for the nostalgia. Long Way Around was one of my inspirations for taking up adventure riding. Thanks again.
All the best Charley! Thank you.
I was on my first ever adventure ride when Long Way Round was being filmed. Brisbane to Darwin via the Savannah Way on a new R1150 GS Adventure. On my 4th GSA now.
Sadly I bought a 1200G.S. on the strength of the film !!! What a pile of rubbish they are Over priced and under engineered in my humble opinion. With very very expensive servicing costs and parts are a joke. B.M.W. were also not helpful when I had an issue. It seems that senior managment just don't wish to speak to mere mortals called customers ?? Personally I would not be given one !!
I loved all the adventures and still have the DVD from Long Way Round............
All I learned is that the GS is a pig and a russian dirt bike shown that less is sometimes more.
Thank you for sharing your journey! It was epic! 🙏🏻
The old 1150GSA is a rolling piece of agro art!
Loved all of the Long Way series. Arguably, Charlie and Ewan not only put the GS and BMW on the map, but entirely created the whole adventure bike genre.
It certainly got me wanting and adventure bike in my twenties, that's for sure!
Still looking awesome, guys! 👍
This old GS looks so much more beautiful then what they have created now.
Two great men who have turned/going grey gracefully. Wow 20 years....Never underestimate the great adventure you all did as a team.
Truly one of my favorite shows of all time. The adventure you guys took us on was amazing. Thank you for getting me through so hard times. Cant wait for more! Never stop!
I met Charlie 20yrs ago at the Sydney motorcycle show here in Australia 🇦🇺. I was 24 at the time and had just got back from a return trip on my CBR600F down to Phillip Island for the Moto GP. It was before the Long way round was released here in Oz. Not many of the punters knew who he was. I bought the dvd series, had a photo and got him to sign it. I binge watched those DVDs before binge watching was a thing!
Thanks for keeping the dream alive Charlie ✊🏽✊🏽
If ktm had said yes to you, everyone will be on ktm‘s now not BMW. BMW owes you a lot. I met you in Dublin a few years ago and shook your hand and had a chat. You asked me what bike I was on et cetera. It was nice. Fairplay to you, Charlie Good man
Loved those programs so much fun and adventure shame you couldn’t do another similar program maybe not so far
Hi Charlie
where can I buy long way up dvd and book? I don't subscribe to Apple or Prime
that was the worst bike show ive ever been too. how why does it cost more than the NEC . i live near Heathrow and I can get to Birmingham in the same time and see 5x more. it was very poor this year
Hope you got a cut from BMW! You are the best bike salesman that's ever lived.
@clydecardy7410
3 minutes ago
My wife and I went Saturday - very disappointed because in general it was a load of crap. More empty space than stands and why o why do you get deafening music when bikes are being ridden in the "arena" - I would like to hear the bike sound - not ear splitting musac
Whatever happened to those dumb electric Harley’s? Over priced and underwhelming bikes.
I loved the series so much that it started my adventure riding travels. I do think that you are responsible for adventure bike riders that ride bikes far too large for purpose. If you can't pick it up on your own when fully loaded, you're in need of an ego check. The smaller the bike the bigger the adventure !
Lol. I did a rtw in 2000 to 2002. The long way round made such a song and dance of it as they tried silly daily distances on the worst rtw bikes ever made. Sorry bmw fans!
I wonder if KTM are still employing the same marketing executive? If so, only by the skin of his teeth.lol
There is a new series on the works apparently, following the one from 2020 (long way up)! I need more news! 😬
Long Way Outback? Trip around Australia.
20 years and the world is a different place. This trip would be nigh on impossible now with the war in Ukraine.
my dad met him and Ewan when they were in Russia, Rostov Oblast, i still have the pictures !:D
I’m ready for Long Way Round 2, using an alternate route.
I want a Long Way Back, to go the other way around the planet, and going through Asian countries, such US (like Route 66), Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, etc… BACK to the UK… to have an alternative path, going the other way around and visiting Asian countries since they are the ones they didn’t do yet since they did Europe, Russia, Africa, US, South America, so Asian countries would be such a great closure… Also, some of those Asian countries are very popular for their use of bikes.
I wonder if KTM now regrets their decision not to supply the bikes.
Oh man……..thanks to those boys me and a mate made a trip to Ukraine…….we WILL go again.
gs 1150 probably best gs the newer one just to much electronics
Long way round and down ,seen it mutiple times it gives me a feel to grab my bike and go. please make a new one Charlie ,and ewan
I have Long Way Round on DVD. Watched so many times!!
The old is like ww2 veteran rough and angry the new is like Gen Z wannabe hard pass for me.
Wish you came to Western Canada for some public engagements.
Excited for Long Way Home!!!!!!
What brand/model jacket is Charlie wearing?
what a trio that was we need another
It's why every other bike you see on the road is a GS.
And i own one. 😂
Loved it. Hated down, but round was good.
the 1300 next to 1150 looks like v strom
Ace vid Loved Long Way round :) i grew up watching it Charley, Ewan and the team were a huge inspiration to me. Ive just recently realised my dream of owning and Riding a BMW R1150GSA after having the more modern 1200s.
Its really refreshing having something thats easy to spanner on and you can buy the service manual for :) she needed a bit of work but ive got her perfect now 😀 i hope we see more simple to work on and unique looking motorcycles again in the future.
For me Long Way Round inspired me to see motorcycles as a way of adventure and engaging with the world, nothing better for your mental health :) than finding adventure wherever you can on a motorcycle.
Why isnt ewan there as well??
Absolutely loved the show and then saw Charlie when he came to Perth, Western Australia. My mum is also friends with his wife's mum!
Really enjoyed that, LWR was and still is amazing. Charlie, Ewan and Claudio were incredible, folks who know it have never ridden an 11GSA off road and probably not done much adventure travel on a big bike. I’d love it if the same crew could do a small but exciting trip on the 1150’s again, those bikes are brilliant and will still be going in another 20 years when the electrics will have long failed on the new bikes.
I visited the Glasgow Transportation museum and they had one of your BMWs. Highlight of the museum visit fir me as I’ve watched your series several times
YOU SUPER GUYS ))))!!!!