People often ask me as the first and only motorcycle TV critic, how I feel about those scallywags, Obi-Wan and Charley?
"Well," I reply," maybe they're deluded victims of their own success and excessive wedge. Who can say what they're like as people, they might not know themselves - they're professional actors in front of cameras. Can you tell what famed thesp James Mason was like as a bloke from watching 'The Desert Fox', anymore than how Nazi, (oh yes he was) Feldmarschall Rommel whom he portrayed in that film would probably come across after a couple of Hofbrau Oktoberfestbiers in the saloon bar of the Colin Campbell?
Our boys are promoting themselves - the dvd and the book included - as an adventuring Ant and Dec style lovable duo act using all their drama school savvy to do it."
Not that I can string complete sentences like that together in general conversation, but that's what I'd quite like to say given half an hour with a biro.
But anyway, in this first episode of their six part commercial break which is all I've seen so far, the best moments were shot from helmet cameras showing the lads wobbling through a very lush Scottish landscape on their two wheeled Airstream caravans.
The worst bits were, as in 'The Wrong Way Round', extended shots of luvvy hugging. In fact a lot of it was the same. The same graphics and music, the same but larger office with garage attached, the same immense back up convoy. The same everything actually but even more so.
Charley's got 15 different pairs of boots lined up, he's the Imelda Marcos of motorcycling and now they've got a doctor onboard in case they get their faces bitten off by hyenas or they're gunned down by magazines full of dum-dum bullets or maybe macheteed up and cooked at Regulo mark 4 as a casserole.
However they've chosen BM's because they are the most reliable, oh really..?
Still, I'll try not to leap to conclusions before seeing some footage of their actual trans Africa journey, but I do think they made a mistake by not taking that waterproof toilet paper bagette with them.
What's on now?
