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[QUOTE=*Touring Ted*;400210]I hope so...
There will new influx of riders buying loads of adventure gear and accessories brand new with their "more money than sense" attitudes.
Then 12 months later they realise they aren't using any of it and flog it all on eBay, nearly new, for a fraction of the price..
Then all us skint travellers can buy it up cheap and actually use it..
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Nice thought TT I like your style. Thing is I also enjoy watching their travel shows. Ok it does'nt represent the reality that most of us would experience, but I find them entertaining and a change from the usual cak,bearing in mind they have got to sell this to mainstream audiences. Oh dear I think it's time I hit the road again.....
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I hope so...
There will new influx of riders buying loads of adventure gear and accessories brand new with their "more money than sense" attitudes.
Then 12 months later they realise they aren't using any of it and flog it all on eBay, nearly new, for a fraction of the price..
Then all us skint travellers can buy it up cheap and actually use it..
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Nice thought TT I like your style. Thing is I also enjoy watching their travel shows. Ok it does'nt represent the reality that most of us would experience, but I find them entertaining and a change from the usual cak,bearing in mind they have got to sell this to mainstream audiences. Oh dear I think it's time I hit the road again..... |
I have to admit, it was that first series that inspired me to do my first big trip way back in 2003. I was 22 and saw an interview with EMG on a talk show talking about the plan and I thought "f**K that.. If he can do it, so can I"...
So, as much as I HATE to admit it, they got me started on all this... If I would of done it anyway, who knows... Probably !! But maybe much later in life.
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I have to admit, it was that first series that inspired me to do my first big trip way back in 2003. I was 22 and saw an interview with EMG on a talk show talking about the plan and I thought "f**K that.. If he can do it, so can I"...
So, as much as I HATE to admit it, they got me started on all this... If I would of done it anyway, who knows... Probably !! But maybe much later in life.
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I think many of us saw LWR and it was our first step on the ladder of becoming and adventure motorcyclist.
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Got a great kick of putting an Irish flag sticker under one of their LWD stickers on the back of a signpost in Namibia.
I think it's good that the general public get a sense of what all this travel malarky is about. It makes the rest of us look like hero's :-)
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I have to admit, it was that first series that inspired me to do my first big trip way back in 2003. I was 22 and saw an interview with EMG on a talk show talking about the plan and I thought "f**K that.. If he can do it, so can I"...
So, as much as I HATE to admit it, they got me started on all this... If I would of done it anyway, who knows... Probably !! But maybe much later in life.
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Ted Simons Jupitor Travels was the book that first inspired me back in 1994. It still does!!
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Hmmm? Some interesting, some might say fascinating, comments here into what the original inspiration was for some of us to go overland travelling. Could be a worthy topic for a brand new thread perhaps? .. or has this been done already?
I could do with a great read; nothing better than a good yarn or two. And Christmas is only 41 Days, 5 Hours and 31 Minutes away!
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Hmmm? Some interesting, some might say fascinating, comments here into what the original inspiration was for some of us to go overland travelling. Could be a worthy topic for a brand new thread perhaps? .. or has this been done already?
I could do with a great read; nothing better than a good yarn or two. And Christmas is only 41 Days, 5 Hours and 31 Minutes away!
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I feel I have to finally admit it: I inspired Ewan and Charley. They read my stories in Motorcycle Sport and Leisure and said to themselves: "If that stupid tawt Bright can manhandle a wholey unsuitable overloaded bag of sh!t BMW around the world, then so can we. All we really need is Russ Malkin to film us: He's the best..."
Errr, sorry, just woke up. T'was just a dream. My inspirations were Ted's "JT", Helge Pedersen's "10 years on 2 wheels" and Robert Fulton's "One Man Caravan". Another excellent book I read after I came home from my trip was Jonny Bealby's "Running with the Moon".
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I have some friends who off roaded to Alaska and raced the outlaw Baja 1000 every year. They dragged me to a slideshow by this dude named Helge Pedersen. I saw that big bike in a tiny canoe and was hooked!
That was probably 15 years before LWR.
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[QUOTE=*Touring Ted*;400238]
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I have to admit, it was that first series that inspired me to do my first big trip way back in 2003. I was 22 and saw an interview with EMG on a talk show talking about the plan and I thought "f**K that.. If he can do it, so can I"...
So, as much as I HATE to admit it, they got me started on all this... If I would of done it anyway, who knows... Probably !! But maybe much later in life.
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Funny Ted, I had the same experience. Had the idea already, but when I saw those guys doing it I knew for a certainty that I could pull it. So can't help but love them for it.
Still haven't actually gone much of anywhere tho.. 
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