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Did anyone watch the road to Dakar on channel 2 last night?
Made by the people who did the long way round,well worth a look.
Its on every thursday night at 8.30 on 2,good stuff.

Yeh, I watched it... Pretty good..
Those guys must have some $ or serious backing....

Yep
I watched it too

I got the DVd for a gift and he only makes it to day 5 and worms out with two sore wrists. probably from wanking too hard. The other two go ok and finish though. Not worth $29 but hey burners are very handy things. This DVD is NOT a good add for the X5 BMW!!!!

Che wrote:I got the DVd for a gift and he only makes it to day 5 and worms out with two sore wrists. probably from wanking too hard. The other two go ok and finish though. Not worth $29 but hey burners are very handy things. This DVD is NOT a good add for the X5 BMW!!!!

Thanks for the ending

burn me a copy ???

damn
why did you spoil it



i thought he would not complete it



long way round was awesome.

rocketrod wrote:Did anyone watch the road to Dakar on channel 2 last night?

Yes. They might as well have made a show about one of the two support riders doing the Dakar with a sack of spuds ockied to the pillion seat for all the effort Charlie Boorman put it.

"Don't criticise me for bailing out of a 4-hour enduro after 45 minutes."
"Build my bike for me."
"You shouldn't've gone over that sand dune so fast. Then I wouldn't've followed you crashed and I wouldn't've broken my collar bone."

Useless prat.

Yeah looks like it will be a good series,be nice to be able to fly to Dubai to "shake a new bike down"...

Hey its all good for you guys to slag off at someone having a go,i dont see any of you putting your hands up to do it,typical tall poppy syndrome i reckon.Good on him for at least giving it a try,at least he admits that his riding ability is prolly not up to it,but he is giving it a go.

rocketrod wrote:Hey its all good for you guys to slag off at someone having a go,i dont see any of you putting your hands up to do it,

The entry fee for the Dakar is something of the order of $60,000.

If I announce that I intend to ride a KLX450R it the 2008 event[1], would you throw in $50 to help me get there?

typical tall poppy syndrome i reckon.Good on him for at least giving it a try,at least he admits that his riding ability is prolly not up to it,but he is giving it a go.

You're confusing the chicken and the egg here. Boorman didn't make the show because he entered the Dakar, he entered the Dakar so he could make a show about it and flog it off for a not-inconsiderable sum of money to the BBC.

He spent that first episode whinging, quitting, making excuses, overstating how much effort he's putting in and expecting everything to be done for him. That makes for crap television.



[1]Incidentally, now that the leg's finally fixed, I'm on track to, *finally*, start doing offroad as seriously as I've been intending to since, oh, late last century... there's likely to be a few enduros in there in a year or two.

Che wrote:I got the DVd for a gift and he only makes it to day 5 and worms out with two sore wrists. probably from wanking too hard.

It says on his website he broke both hands, sounds a good enough reason for giving the other ten days a miss to me .

I-K wrote:

rocketrod wrote:Hey its all good for you guys to slag off at someone having a go,i dont see any of you putting your hands up to do it,

The entry fee for the Dakar is something of the order of $60,000.

If I announce that I intend to ride a KLX450R it the 2008 event[1], would you throw in $50 to help me get there?

typical tall poppy syndrome i reckon.Good on him for at least giving it a try,at least he admits that his riding ability is prolly not up to it,but he is giving it a go.

You're confusing the chicken and the egg here. Boorman didn't make the show because he entered the Dakar, he entered the Dakar so he could make a show about it and flog it off for a not-inconsiderable sum of money to the BBC.

He spent that first episode whinging, quitting, making excuses, overstating how much effort he's putting in and expecting everything to be done for him. That makes for crap television.



[1]Incidentally, now that the leg's finally fixed, I'm on track to, *finally*, start doing offroad as seriously as I've been intending to since, oh, late last century... there's likely to be a few enduros in there in a year or two.

Yeah,well maybe he did make some money from doing it and good for him,but he didnt have to have a go and put himself through all that,but he did.
If your such a legend mate,will i see your name in the aussie safari then?
I think not.........
So your letting a little leg injury stop ya,stop ya whining.......

rocketrod wrote:Hey its all good for you guys to slag off at someone having a go,i dont see any of you putting your hands up to do it,typical tall poppy syndrome i reckon.Good on him for at least giving it a try,at least he admits that his riding ability is prolly not up to it,but he is giving it a go.

A mate of mine who lives in Holland had a go at the P-D in 2005/06. He ran a raffle to help pay for the costs, as he was an unsupported rider. He was riding an KTM that had been used the previous year in the P-D, so it was *reasonably* well set-up.

Hardest riding he has *ever* done in his life, so he told us in several e-mails over the course of about 2 weeks, until he pranged and had to bail out, it was just before Andy Caldecott died........ Old mate has done a couple of Finke Desert races in the past, he is a *hell* of a good off-roader......

I applaude *anyone* who even contemplates having a bash at what is clearly the hardest race on the face of the globe. Its not tea and biscuits you know , even if they are *Charlie Boorman*, and they are making some money on the side, and they ride like a pussy.

When the green flag drops, the bullshit stops. Words to live by

rocketrod wrote:Yeah,well maybe he did make some money from doing it and good for him,but he didnt have to have a go and put himself through all that,but he did.

You're still missing the point, which is that his show doesn't make for good television.

They're not showing how they built the bike (did they even mention it's an F650GS?); one second it's in the garage in pieces, the next second they're showing it pissing oil out of a failed gasket in the Dubai desert, then Charlie goes off to sip a pina colada in the hotel pool.

They're not showing how they kitted out the support vehicle; it's just "Oh, and BMW have given us this brand-new X5, just as we deserve."

They go to an enduro; 5 seconds of bikes on the startline, 5 seconds of riders other than Charlie ripping through the bush, 45 seconds of Charlie wheezing and moaning about how hard it was and how he couldn't go on.

They start training; not a word about why they stuck Charlie on a YZ250WR instead of a four-stroke, not a word about riding techniques, nothing about this is how you get up a shale hill, or this is how you rail a rut, just here, watch Charlie rev it at a standstill when he gets stuck... again.

A regular person could've watched that whole first episode and walked away none the wiser on the subject of off-road riding. That makes the show bad television.

Bottom line, he's made this show and he's gone up to the general public and went "Here. I made this for your entertainment. Watch it." That means I, as part of the general public, get to say whether I like it or not, and, for the reasons outlined above, I don't. His show is shit and he can fark orf and make room for someone who'd make a show about something other than how he'll spend half a million dollars of BMW's money while someone else does all the work.

It's a fair bet this would've made a better show if Gos' Dutch mate was in it.

I-K wrote:It's a fair bet this would've made a better show if Gos' Dutch mate was in it.

He's a skippy, but married a dutch chick about 10? years ago .... all the photos of his KTM are on my other *%ucked hard drive that crashed in April otherwise I'd bung 'em up now......it was a cool looking bike, thats for sure.........

He reckoned the effort and back-up needed to have a *dinkum* tilt at this race was just out of the question for him, but he sure as hell enjoyed the trip until the prang.......