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Ewan McGregor to sell motorbike for charity

Star of Long Way Down to donate one of his collection to help raise funds

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Posted: 19 November 2008
by Visordown News

EWAN McGREGOR is giving his motorbike to the charity UNICEF to help raise funds.

The star of Long Way Down and Long Way Round (plus he makes some movies along the way, apparently) has said that he will be donating a motorcycle and some of his riding kit to an upcoming Ebay charity event to raise funds for the charity he has been an ambassador for since 2004.

It's thought the bike will be his BMW R1200GS Adventure, which could feitch up to £40,000.

The duo are planning a Long Way Up trip for 2009.


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Crasher_666

Very nice, although he didn't actually pay for the bike did he? Admirable that he's doing it for charity, and I envy their journeys, but this is a bit misleading, unlike Alan wotsisname the tv comedian fella who donated his Ducati to Riders for Health last year I think it was.


Posted: 19/11/2008 at 14:34


ScottyUK

People love getting the knives out for McGregor don't they!

 It's his bike and it's something that will probably generate a decent amount for charity.

 Fair play to him. No critism from me whether he paid for it or not.


Posted: 19/11/2008 at 15:36


Flo

BMW didn't give him the bike gratis- money couldn't buy the kind of publicity the "Long Way" series gave them. That's not criticism of either party, it was a good deal for both, but McGregor paid a lot more for that bike than I've ever done for one of mine.  He was the one in the a*se end of nowhere with a just his mate and a documentary crew for company. Good on him for doing the trips in the first place and double that for the charity work en route.

Hope it fetches a small fortune...


Posted: 19/11/2008 at 19:31


COYI
+1

Posted: 19/11/2008 at 20:32


Tom2510
Just finished LWR and getting into LWD tonight and I was idly wondering if any of the stuff had been sold for charity

Good for Mr McGregor... now he just needs to go on another crazy trip

Posted: 20/11/2008 at 00:03


zeroseven
he deserves credit for spending 3 months with his sprung loaded muppet mate

Posted: 20/11/2008 at 08:13


zeroseven
.... and he wouldn't have paid a bean for the bike directly, it would be bought by the production company .... of which he's part I'm sure.

He seems a nice enough bloke, fucked up deciding to be an actor though

Posted: 20/11/2008 at 08:16


Daymo the Onion

its less about what Ewok and Boring have sacrificed in order to donate the bike and more about what the item will generate at auction. The bike will get a large amount of money and that is all thats important.

Personally, I liked LWR and LWD. They justify reality TV for me. Could'nt care less about "I've not been in Hallo magazine for 25mins - get me on the telly","Strictly come prancing" and " Big Bother" type shows but those of you who know about Adventure Biking will know that the *real* bike hero's (Ted Simon - Jupiters Travels and that bloke who went 'round the world in 20 minutes on an R1 to name just two, oh and the Globe Busters Kevin and Julia? ) never made it onto the silver screen. Now that Ewok and Boring have made it happen on proper reality TV by doing something genuinely difficult and not set-up for max advert revenue, I'm looking forward to more...

 Good on 'em. May they do it again....


Posted: 20/11/2008 at 08:55


Daymo the Onion
zeroseven wrote (see)
he deserves credit for spending 3 months with his sprung loaded muppet mate

Yeah Charlie is a bit manic. He's a real nice guy though. met him a couple a times....

Posted: 20/11/2008 at 08:57


Crasher_666

Yeah I do want to say I'm a big McGregor fan as it happens, and loved LWR, thought LWD was a bit sparse on the footage front though but still good. Apparently the books are good. I'm all for the charity side of it and hope it fetches a mint!

I wasn't having a pop, just saying that it wasn't strictly candid that it was a donated bike, frankly I'd have thought bmw would want the bikes back not least from a R&D perspective. Glad they don't though.

So what next for the intrepid duo? Long way through..  trying to get from woking to southend, at 3pm on a thursday, without using any motorways. Sounds like a worthy challenge


Posted: 20/11/2008 at 12:23


Daymo the Onion

Dunno what they would do next.  LWR was a boyhood dream of thiers and LWD was a natural extension of that. I think the main thing is that Mr. McGregor has no real *need* to do these trips, they are real "adventures" for him and as such he needs to take time off from his 'job' of acting to do them whereas Charlie has made a succesfull career out of adventure travelling.

Either way, I've enjoyed watching all the series that they've done and hope there is more. If you like that sorta thing, check out the Rider Reports on ADVRIDER.C0m....

As for BMW and the bike, i suspect they have all the machines they need for R&D.

As an aside, I'm watching the re-runs of LWD and noticed that when they load the bikes into the vans for the ship to Scotland, they have the Tourtech screens and fairing fitted but as they leave the next day, the bikes are back to standard BMW GSA screens.. I'd love to know why...

Crasher_666 wrote (see)

So what next for the intrepid duo? Long way through..  trying to get from woking to southend, at 3pm on a thursday, without using any motorways. Sounds like a worthy challenge

They'd knock that back on the grounds of being impossible!.. bit like getting to bristol on a friday from anywhere inside the M25...


Posted: 20/11/2008 at 12:38


Crasher_666

Well.. just seen the below page on MCN... don't I feel a bit of a twat

 http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/mcn/2008/November/17-23/nov2008-Ewan-McGregors-Moto-Guzzi-for-sale/

Wonder if he read my forum post and felt guilty (thats a joke btw)

Top man, more power to him I say.


Posted: 24/11/2008 at 15:19


Flo

 LMFAO

Don't worry mate, we all thought the same thing....

And isn't he a top bloke!

Money inbound.


Posted: 24/11/2008 at 16:28

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