Bravo +2, anything that encourages people to have a try is good.

What I'm less comfortable with is how people react to the details. From Maxander's other posts I detect (tell me if I'm wrong) that he's viewing this as a starting point and comes here to pick up other aspects. At the other end of the scale some clown will eventually get into big trouble when he's found a thousand miles from home with a part welded BM GS, half the Touratech catalogue and a signed photograph of EM/CB. This isn't the LWD/R boy's fault, it's how the media presents everything and how some people seem to soak it all in as fact. If the only result is Metal Mules costing £2000 a set because they are a must have for stockbrokers, so be it but I worry the effect will be worse.

I could criticise Chris Scott's book for now being used as a shopping list (not his fault, the lists are a useful starting point). Ted Simon was always more of a journalist on a bike not a biker (something he's said himself). Nick Sanders is ****ing dangerous and it's pure luck he isn't now a stain on some roadtrain or bit of armco, but lots of people ride like that and he's just a more famous example. They all got info out there and gave people ideas. The biggest issue with LWD/R is the shear size of it's profile because Ewan McGregor is an actor, it swamps the other sources and hence worries me.

I'll stick by the idea that if they'd made a Holywood feature film of Mondo Enduro the results would have been similar to LWD/R.

Andy

Agreed, but that's the commercial factor. They made LWR initially because they had a famous name to launch the project at the highest level, and without Ewan you could argue that it would never have been made at all.

You see the contrast between LWD/R RTD where there is obvious big sponsorship and career directors / producers on mainstream TV channels, and the amateur DVDs that would be lucky to make Men & Motors, Discovery Whatnot, or direct to DVD. It doesn't mean the amateur stuff isn't good, it's just more for the enthusiast fringe audience.

LWD was great entertainment and could not have been made any other way and still fit the mainstream market it was sold into.

Maxander

Yeppers, there's a world of difference in the promo world with the right personalities fronting / backing a film project. Take aussie Rossco's good work for instance. Rossco has put together a bloody brilliant promo of his adventure ride called "This Way Up". The download for which is here: http://www.radium.tv/thiswayup/This%...Up%20Promo.wmv

You can get the full story from this ADVrider thread, which you'll find self-explanatory. I piped-in on the thread with my tuppence-worth at post #55. [BTW, I am not a regular visitor or prolific poster on ADVrider, but I do hang-out there from time-to-time under the screen name 'Keef'.]

Ross &Co deserve a BIG break with this project, that's for sure. I'm certain he would appreciate your support .. and any constructive help /ideas /comments would no doubt go down well too.

I thought Rossco's project would be worth mentioning under this particular HUBB thread, as it's highly relevant IMHO.

Thanks

KEITH

PS - Incidentally, I have no commercial interest in "This Way Up" whatsoever.




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