It's getting like the Three Yorkshiremen on Monty Python in here:

"When I rode t' North Cape, Ah did it 'wi nowt but an F650 an a black and white GPS"

"F650! Ah'd a thought a were in 'even on an F650. Ah did it on a C50 wi no tread ont back tyre an only a 2-pound book token for petrol"

"C50! Ah pushed an Harley wi mi ole fam'ly ont back and square wheels......"



We've done this one before. You can't make a TV programme to a schedule with a risk that two front men and six crew will get stuck half way up the Amazon for a month until UPS and some customs clowns decide to deliver a spare widget. Hence you have fixers and spare bikes. I agree this makes it unrealistic and I agree Mondo Enduro was way better. It's like comparing a news reel with Saving Private Ryan though. The general public like stable shots and logical editing (ME is the best of it's kind but it's pure skill that it's watchable, it could have been real home movie stuff). Most BBC/Sky viewers don't notice that the bottom half of a Nazi tank is Russian or that one of the bikes changes for no apparent reason, but they will turn off when it ceases to make sense as to why finding a shiney thing it some drunken Russians hut is so good.

I felt cheated too, but having read more I think EM and CB got cheated out of their trip too.

As various people said at the start of this thread, lets hope they ditch the film crew and try it for real.

Andy