Long Way Round repeated over Christmas

(Andy Hewitt) came forth with the following in
uk.rec.motorcycles

The bloke at KTM told them that they wouldn't make it(ie no sponcership).
They did.
I bet someone at KTM was rapidly looking for a new job in the wake of the
programme

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Mark
ZX12R-B1 (Blue)
CG125 (hers)
Blata Ninja 3.4
BOTSWCAW#3

 

Already on mine - with the book.
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
96 Tiger.
FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM

 

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Ta !!

 

Oh yes

 

The book is like that as well. But if you look at it in terms of
journey time then the time spent in America and Canada was bugger all.
They may have gone a fair distance but they did it within a week or
so. Compare that to the couple of months they took to cross Eastern
Europe and you can see why they didn't feature it much.

Plus the aim of the trip for Ewan and Charley was the crossing of
Eastern Europe and Russia, not America, that was only done because
they had to.

 

I think the insinuation was that KTM didn't think their bikes would
make it and didn't want the negative publicity.

 

Na, I've recorded 7. Well, 6 because I accidentally taped over one
with the next one.

 

Bear was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Everybody in the factory who can tell one end of the spanner from the
other one gets to work on the bikes, those who can't get a big rake to
comb the sand for all the bits that vibrated off.

Seriously, some of the KTM stories that one reads on drm and afm
(ukrm's German and Austrian sister groups) make you wonder why people
bother buying them at all...