Fast forward past the UNICEF parts... boring
Ewan McGregor is likely the reason people initially watch this and then gets on your nerves quick. He ruins the trip by inviting his wife (grow some balls), is "surprised" the roads in Africa are garbage (are you serious?) and fawns over people living in primitive conditions (No Ewan, living in the stone age is not "romantic").I am just surprised at the poor preparation for the trip considering they did this before.
1. Ewan still cannot ride a bike without falling off. (At least Charlie's skills have improved)
2. Their riding gear was not water proof. (Yet advertise on their website it was the same company that Che Guavara used?)
3. They use BMW bikes again for their supposed "reliability" yet last time had the frames break on multiple bikes, multiple time and now have the shocks fail on multiples bikes. Top that off with a worthless kickstand "safety" switch preventing Ewan's bike from starting. Anything worthless like this that can break on an adventure trek should be removed from the bike before you leave. (or make the cover protecting the switch out something like say... titanium?)
Long Way Round was much more interesting, especially in Russia. Africa does not look interesting let alone exciting to visit. The only thing I was surprised about was how good the roads were in Tunisia. Ironically just like LWR the only time they got threatened was in Arab countries. (Ewan seems oblivious to this fact)
They needed to focus more time on the gear and bike preparation and give Claudio more camera time. Claudio, Charlie and the crew are much more interesting than whining Ewan.
Fast forward past the UNICEF parts... boring
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The_Real_Review 24 August 2013
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