docu/ travel bmw motorbikes in the long way round trip?

Question

hi what happened to the bmw motor bikes used in the mcgregor/boorman long way round trip and where are the bikes now pleas3e

Answer 1

Hi,

From mid-April to the end of July 2004, McGregor, Boorman, motorcycle riding cameraman Claudio von Planta and their support crew travelled from London to New York, via Western and Central Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia and Canada, for a cumulative distance of 18,887 miles (30,395 km). The only sections of the trip not undertaken by motorcycle were 580 miles by train in Siberia, a short impassable section towards the end of their Russian journey, which was undertaken by truck, and a 2,505 mile flight from Magadan in eastern Russia to Anchorage, Alaska. Upon encountering numerous swollen rivers and a serious lack of functioning bridges while travelling along the Road of Bones to Magadan, the riders got their motorbikes through some fairly deep rivers. However, the summer run-off from the Siberian winter was in full flow and after a valiant effort, the bikes eventually had to be loaded into the trucks of passing drivers and ferried across some of the worst rivers.

Ref : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Way_Round

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