I can't be sure if this is original Long Way Down footage, but it looks genuine to me. Allegedly, the duo are planning a Long Way Up trip for 2009.

EWAN MCGREGOR chatted to Radio1 DJ Chris Moyles this morning, plugging his latest adventure, The Long Way Down. Ewan and Charley will be heading from John O'Groats, Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa.The trip will take 3 months and will see

, sail speedboats and drive trucks. All sorts of things to get ready." Boorman added that despite being most famous for riding big off-road bikes around the world, he has a new fear for the up-coming series: landing a plane. He said: "Once you're up

At last! Launching off the front drive and accelerating down the road, the wave of cool air through my helmet vents washes away the heat and stress of another week at work. Making my way cautiously through the village I nod at one of the locals out

it uncomfortable and difficult to steer in slow corners. Not ideal for a long ride since I'll get backache and have to stretch my legs every 50 miles.So, knowing it will get in the way within a few minutes, I strap the bag to the back of the BMW and fiddle around

the back of superbikes is the latest craze amongst America’s more discerning rider. A minimum of a 240-section booty slotted into a handmade swingarm, sometimes going all the way up to a ridiculous 360 monster, is the latest look to be seen on. The look

in the cylinder head. It’s also going to work its way past the piston rings into the combustion chamber. Not good for performance, engine life or emissions.3) It needs a long intake manifold to move the air intake up to a conventional position where there’s room

.It feels closest to the last R1, not the big-bang one, but the previous model, it's not  revvy like a Blade it's not peaky like a ZX-10R, it's smooth in the way it makes it power, like a big turbine, which makes it easy to ride hard.I stiffened up the front

on the race track. During the year I do a fair amount of instructing at circuits around the country so after noting the success of the Super Duke Battle race series I rested my R6 and started to use the Duke. Unsurprisingly it did lose out a bit on long

's comfortable over long distances but also beautifully balanced and manoeuvreable on track.I followed Jim around and gradually got faster and faster, working on carrying corner speed (my technique used to consist of hurtling up to corners and then slamming