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Mondo Enduro all the way!
I never watched the long way around because I always knew BMWs were for c**ts, so a couple of rich actors doing a travel program on BMWs didn't exactly appeal to me. Someone recommended the Austin vince stuff to me saying it would be right up my street, but I think I decided that if they'd made a film about it they were probably wankers. About two years later I was looking through a mate's dvd collection and spotted Mondo enduro. I watched it the same night and I think within a day or two, or possibly that same night, decided I was going to do a proper long distance trip the following summer.
It was the can-do attitude and apparent lack of detailed planning or attention to rules that got me. I didn't need to be inspired to travel, I needed to be shown that if you ignore all the nay-saying, micro-managing, safety obsessed losers, it's actually quite easy to go pretty much anywhere you want.
On my Mongolia trip I probably came across as a Mondo Enduro fanboy, but in reality I used a DR350 because it does stand out by a mile as the best cheap, low-tech smaller capable trailie, and the rough camping and lack of 'proper' bike luggage/clothing etc was what I'd been doing for a couple of years anyway.
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