We live busy lives, and the older you get, the busier you are. And then one day we decided to do a longer journey, and that’s kind of how it started. Ewan and I have been mates for 25 years and everything we’ve ever done has been motorbikes. Is that still the main driving factor for you? Obviously there is a commercial element to these projects, but the main premise is two best mates going for a ride. Previously, you’d have to have a few minutes of TV to explain that, and Claudio would have to walk to the top of a hill to show where we were.

For the audience, it takes them off the bike a little bit and shows them where we are. Now, with this drone, Claudio can sit there, with Ewan and me riding off, and then it pans across and reveals where we are. Ewan and I would go down the same road and film it for half an hour. In the past, you would rent a helicopter for a couple of hours at a vast expense. Now, Claudio von Planta, our cameraman who has been on all three, he came with a camera, but he came with a drone as well. There was no Instagram, Twitter, Facebook – it makes me sound really old. When we first did Long Way Round, there were no GoPro’s or anything like that. I think with this TV show, the level of production value is much bigger. How was this trip different from 13 years ago? The world has changed a lot since Long Way Down, not only in terms of motorcycling, but technology in general. We got Russ and Dave, our producers, over and we said let’s do this. We kind of got together and decided we should make another one. That sort of reconnected us a little bit.īecause I was stuck here and Ewan was over here making a movie, he came and stayed for a while. I had this big crash in 2016, and I really smashed myself up badly. Ewan said that it’s crazy we’re not seeing each other enough, being old best mates. We didn’t see each other that much for quite a long time. When we finished Long Way Down, Ewan moved to Los Angeles and I stayed in London. We both knew it had been a long time, but I think we forgot just how long it had been. You know, I was doing an interview with Ewan yesterday, and one of the journalists said it’s been 13 years since Long Way Down.

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