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Midknyte
Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 02:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Mens Journal Article - The World on Two Wheels

http://www.mensjournal.com/feature/0411/ewanMcGregor.html

"Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman dreamed up the ultimate road trip: a circumnavigation of the globe by motorcycle. More than 20,000 miles and three and a half months later, two longtime friends relive their epic journey from London to New York -- in an exclusive excerpt from their amazing account, Long Way Round..."
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Stealthxb
Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 04:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

How sweet would that be?
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Bomber
Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 04:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

gonna be a tv thing on it as well -- Discovery Channel, I believe?

very cool for the non-motorcycling public to see folks other than Orange County Choopers and the Biker Build-offs involved in our sport --
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Hootowl
Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 04:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Please read that article. Its good.

Here's a few lines...

"It was quite ironic that George Lucas bought me the Ducati. I'm usually forbidden by contract to ride a bike while shooting a movie. The only location where I was allowed to ride to work was Australia; I spent almost two years there on and off, shooting Moulin Rouge, and the second and third Star Wars episodes. When I first met with Baz Luhrmann, the director of Moulin Rouge, I told him that if he wanted me to sign up for eight months to rehearse and shoot his film -- a much longer period than the three months a film usually takes -- then I had to be allowed to ride a bike."

"I act. I am with my wife and kids. And I ride motorbikes. That's it. That's all I do," I said. "If you don't let me ride a motorbike for eight months, it's like forbidding me to listen to music. It's that big a deal to me. I cannot stay off bikes for eight months."


and..

"When I leave work on a motorbike, pull on my helmet, and move off, it doesn't matter if I've had a good day or not. With no phone, no stereo, and no traffic to sit in for 40 minutes, contemplating what's happened during the day, I am concentrating so hard on what I'm doing and where I'm going, and making sure that no one is pulling out to kill me, by the time I get home my mind has been cleared of any troubles. There's something about riding a bike -- the concentration and the single-mindedness of it, and the desire to get it right, taking a corner fast without losing control, doing it beautifully, getting into a groove and winning the battle between your head telling you to do one thing, the bike wanting to do another, and your body in between -- that I miss like hell if I don't get to ride every day."

That about sums it up for me.
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Buckinfubba
Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 06:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

now thats what its all about/...
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Rek
Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 08:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

There's a similar article about Ewin and McGregor in Outside Magazine this month as well.
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Bomber
Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 09:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

check the network airing this show in my previous post -- it's gonna be on Bravo
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