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Saw the trailer for this

http://www.channel4.com/motorcyclediaries

at the cinema[1] this evening. Looks like a cracking fillum. On at the end
of the month.

[1] before a film about mongolian camels, of all things

 

simonk says...

Is this the Che Guevara(sp?) film?

 

Yes.

I read the book a few years ago and thought it was very good. Gives a
real insight into why El Che became a revolutionary from training as a
doctor.

 

The same

 

Ché was a biker!?

Viva la revolucion!

 

Rather famously. It was this trip that gave the impetus to his political
beliefs; before he witnessed the inequality of South America he was like
anyone else looning about on motorcycles.

 

ISTR on one trip, suffering from diarrhoea, he shat out of a window onto
a corrugated iron roof.

In the morning, he found that the owner of the house had been storing
his fruit crop there...

No doubt he would have fitted in on ukrm.

Martin.

 

Indeedy. It was a *Norton* which carried him and his mate round South
America.

 

Believe it brother...

Exactly...
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Either well or often.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

If it was one of the old Notron singles it might well have been capable
of doing the journey. They just plodded on forever and a day.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

So how fast would a really good old Norton do then?

 

Yup, a 500 ES2 I think.

 

A bike which is easy to maintain in the field is a distinct advantage in
places like South America I'd reckon.

 

Well his was well bodged together using bits of whatever was lying
about. Trainee doctor wasn't a very well paid occupation in Argentina
back then, and genuine Norton spares would have been a bit thin on the
ground as well.

Still, good enough to get him most of the way round the continent until
it finaly broke it's headstock in a crash and El Che had to leave it
behind

Wonder where it is now.

 

And I won't argue with that.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

About 60 on a good day, iwt.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Well, Wolfgang Evers 920cc Commando does 140mph unfaired.

El Che's bog stock old ES2 about 70.

A well screwed together ES2 with the weight pared down can hit 95 or so
in road going trim, more with race ratios in the gearbox.

http://www.basicbikes.com has a good example which was bought by a racer
in Germany. Won the first race he entered it in when the throttle stuck
wide open )

 

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:12:41 +0100, Champ wrote:

Bloody hell; I thought everyone knew that.

 

I possess huge vistas of ignorance.