Motorbike trip of europe 2008 video.

RoadRunner

Part1 of a video diary of me (mick) and two friends (ado & glen) adventures around europe on a motorbike trip in 2008.

http://www.vimeo.com/13249202 (part 1)

(video contains swearing, nudity, public drunkenness and probably some other stuff that's NSFW)

There's also a photoblog that I wrote up some time ago here:
http://www.mickskelly.com/news.php?id=1

MikeC101

Great video! Thanks for letting us know about it. Are you going to upload parts two and three?

Will have a read through the photoblog later.

Fair play to the guy on the Deauville too, he really dove in at the deep end of biking!

(No joking, if RTE would make a program like this, it'd be 10 times more watchable than any of their other travel programmes)

You might not get away with stuff like "arse like a f**kin altarboy after a good morning mass" though!

Edit: Cliffhanger ending!! Roll on part two...

RoadRunner

Hey Mike.

Thanks for your comments. Yeah Glen is a hero alright. 8000km on a bloody PROVISIONAL licence, with about 3 weeks bike driving experience. He picked it up no bother. I'm sure RTE could play it and bleeb out anything they don't like :pac:

Parts 2 & 3 are made and ready to go (and even better then the first in my opinion). I just need to upload them. Vimeo only allows 500mb upload per week. So I guess I'll be uploading a new video each week. I could have used youtube, but then I'd have to break the video up into small bits.

macshadow

I really enjoyed that, thanks for posting. How did Glen manage to get away using a provisional for whole trip?
You should get yourself over to www.horizonsunlimited.com they have a forum for travel stories.

RoadRunner

macshadow wrote: »

I really enjoyed that, thanks for posting. How did Glen manage to get away using a provisional for whole trip?
You should get yourself over to www.horizonsunlimited.com they have a forum for travel stories.

He was just lucky and managed to never have to show his licence to anyone. Just as well because it says on it "NOT FOR USE OUTSIDE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND".

Tomohawk

Great Video, very watchable!

RoadRunner

Part 2 of the trip....

http://www.vimeo.com/13469148

mr zulu

excellent video,really enjoying your trip,glad everthing was ok after crash,well done again.

CokaColumbo

A pretty intense end to part II.

Poor dog

RoadRunner

The dog was killed instantly. It felt nothing.

zapata

Fair play to ye. Some good craic there.

KamiKazi

Get part 3 up!

RoadRunner

there you go sir. Part 3. The final part.

http://www.vimeo.com/13784069

Dorsanty

Certainly gives the long way around a run for it's money.

When ye doing the next trip?

RoadRunner

I'm supposed to be going to morocco next month for 5 weeks. But not with the other two lads so there won't be a video camera. Ado got a kid now so it's not so easy for him to leave for weeks at a time any more. Glen is not long back from a tour of south america with his guitar, and I'd say he's fairly broke from that. I think he's putting together a video of that.

It'd be great to the three of us on the road again for another adventure alright.

yogidc26

Hi Roadrunner

I just watched all 3 today I got it off IBF. what a trip! im and going to do someting like that after watching it.

It had it all bikes, laugh's,crashs and some of the best scenery in Europe

Thanks for for putting it up

(and the wife like seen you all running around naked):D

martyboy48

Watches the 3 vids... Very nice trip. Well done

philon

Just watched the 3 vids.....
Well done lads, looked like a great trip.
Did something similar myself a few years back...USA "world" bike trip ( LA to New York) and it reminded me of the goodtimes we had on that.

Looking at doing a Euro trip next year.

keep it going Roadrunner

Phil