The Long Way Round, did Ewen McGregor have any influence over Charlie regarding BMW or the KTM motor cycles?
04.November, 2008
The Long Way Round, did Ewen McGregor have any influence over Charlie regarding BMW or the KTM motor cycles?
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No. They both wanted KTM. At the last moment KTM felt the trip would be a failure and did not want the negative publicity this might have caused. BMW saved the day.
Personally I think both bikes were far too heavy. They would have had more luck with a couple of Yamaha XT600's or similar.
05.November, 2008 um 5:00 am
no.
how come this is search engine optimisation anyway?
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05.November, 2008 um 5:45 am
No. They both wanted KTM. At the last moment KTM felt the trip would be a failure and did not want the negative publicity this might have caused. BMW saved the day.
Personally I think both bikes were far too heavy. They would have had more luck with a couple of Yamaha XT600's or similar.
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05.November, 2008 um 5:54 am
Apparently they both wanted KTM, but had to go BMW when KTM got cold feet. To this day, KTM are still (unofficially) circulating a story that they pulled out because Charlie and Ewen demanded the bikes, tools and loads of other stuff for free plus a large amount of cash to use KTM, shame they didn't think the publicity was worth it cause it did BMW the world of good.
Can't understand KTM's excuse, seems to me they had other sponsors and backers, why would they 'demand' so much from KTM?
The truth, we will probably never know. Enjoyed programme though. KTM must secretly be kicking themselves, BMW have done really well out of it.
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05.November, 2008 um 6:18 am
NO, they chose KTM but at the last minute KTM pulled out saying that they didn't think Ewan and Charlie could pull it off and so it wouln't be good press for the bike.
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