Austin Vince article

[Richard Simpson]

When we run out of things to say here we could move over to TBM and start there, because there's an interview with AV in the new issue of that (god help us).

I think he's got a film to promote, or something.

I'd start it myself, but I'm busy finalising the graphic design for my helmet (E&C) AND my boilersuit (AV) because I'm planning a RTW trip on an unsuitable bike (a GS1200 groaning under the weight of every accessory in the Touratech catalogue) wearing unsuitable clothing (a cotton boilersuit with sewn-on patches and stripes).

I expect I'lll fall off at the petrol station (E&C) then get lost on the M25 and leave my money on the ferry (AV).

I'm then going to synergise the best from both approaches and bribe my way though border crossing with fake papers (AV) using titanium teaspoons from my NASA cutlery set (E&C).

I'll then traverse the world so fast I end up with my head up my own arse, because I'll arrive before I've left (that bloke with the R1, whoever he is).

Obviously this all costs, so I've set up a JustGiving page so you can support me while I'm enriching the cultures of the world.

Just go to www.payforrichardsholiday.con

I'll maintain a really dull blog on the way too...

Enjoy!

[gebrauchtwagen83]

When we run out of things to say here we could move over to TBM and start there, because there's an interview with AV in the new issue of that (god help us).

I think he's got a film to promote, or something.

I'd start it myself, but I'm busy finalising the graphic design for my helmet (E&C) AND my boilersuit (AV) because I'm planning a RTW trip on an unsuitable bike (a GS1200 groaning under the weight of every accessory in the Touratech catalogue) wearing unsuitable clothing (a cotton boilersuit with sewn-on patches and stripes).

I expect I'lll fall off at the petrol station (E&C) then get lost on the M25 and leave my money on the ferry (AV).

I'm then going to synergise the best from both approaches and bribe my way though border crossing with fake papers (AV) using titanium teaspoons from my NASA cutlery set (E&C).

I'll then traverse the world so fast I end up with my head up my own arse, because I'll arrive before I've left (that bloke with the R1, whoever he is).

Obviously this all costs, so I've set up a JustGiving page you you can support me while I'm enriching the cultures of the world.

Just go to www.payforrichardsholiday.con

I'll maintain a really dull blog on the way too...

Enjoy!

:laugh: :laugh:

[Richard Simpson]

Oh, nearly forgot.

I'm taking a flask of battery acid to drink when I'm lost in the desert and feeling a bit thirsty (Ted Simon).

[Dazzer]

Don't set me off on the justgiving issue. I never understand why some do a long trip for themselves and say there doing it for a charity ! If your that interested in helping the charity just give them all the money instead of buying a bike and all the kit then riding thousands of miles . Most not all would raise more money that way for the cause their suporting.

[Dave DRZ]

Well I picked up 'Days that must happen to you' by Dan Walsh in the local library yesterday. He's another one who can be quite, shall we say 'outspoken', but at first flick through it looked funny, I'll see when I start reading it.

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I love 'Days that must happen ...' Read it in monthly installments in Bike, then bought the book and have just read it for the second time (so, third time in total). Dan is (was?) a very gifted writer, but again, he's open to criticism - he set off (twice) ill prepared, was gifted nice bikes and back up via industry people, didn't look after himself or his bikes, drank his way around africa and south america and paid for it by submitting occasional articles - which towards the end were very periodic.

Still, good luck to him, he's living his dream, I think he earns a few quid these days as a guide for Blazing Trails (think he might have been in a recent ABR?). A few more articles would improve Bike...

Dave

[Richard Simpson]

"I'm going out to Africa to paint an orphanage?"


"Why, can't the Africans paint their own orphanage? Can't you just send £20 and they can buy a tin of paint and a brush?"

Never understood it. When I was a teenager, various people said I should consider doing VSO. I looked into it, and unless you have a very specific skill or knowledge all you are doing is putting local people out of a job.

[Richard Simpson]

Well I picked up 'Days that must happen to you' by Dan Walsh in the local library yesterday. He's another one who can be quite, shall we say 'outspoken', but at first flick through it looked funny, I'll see when I start reading it.

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2

I love 'Days that must happen ...' Read it in monthly installments in Bike, then bought the book and have just read it for the second time (so, third time in total). Dan is (was?) a very gifted writer, but again, he's open to criticism - he set off (twice) ill prepared, was gifted nice bikes and back up via industry people, didn't look after himself or his bikes, drank his way around africa and south america and paid for it by submitting occasional articles - which towards the end were very periodic.

Still, good luck to him, he's living his dream, I think he earns a few quid these days as a guide for Blazing Trails (think he might have been in a recent ABR?). A few more articles would improve Bike...

Dave

That's a laugh, when he was a 'road tester' for Bike he didn't even have a bike licence, and kept falling off after making basic mistakes.

A guide? I wouldn't follow him to the nearest pub.

[GB]

Chris Scott , is the most straight forward and modest blokes you will ever meet. Even his website for the Adventure Motorcycling Handbook has the following quote "‘Adventure motorcycling’ (a term I’m credited with coining in the 90s)", not in a bragging way but as self effacing mockery because Austin Vince and Ewan and Thingy both state that his book is a must read for all budding adventurers .

Now given the amount of time he has spent travelling in the Sahara and funding his next trips by working in a book shop and selling books and DVD's after 3 decades of riding in far off places with unsuitable machinery and very little publicity surely his opinion should count a lot higher than the one trip every few years brigade, so how about a similar CS interview

I can't agree more, I spent a few hours chatting to him earlier this year, what a top bloke.

[Nigel]

"I'm going out to Africa to paint an orphanage?"


"Why, can't the Africans paint their own orphanage? Can't you just send £20 and they can buy a tin of paint and a brush?"

Never understood it. When I was a teenager, various people said I should consider doing VSO. I looked into it, and unless you have a very specific skill or knowledge all you are doing is putting local people out of a job.

Very true and very topical at the moment with the rise of voluntourism, if you are transferring your skills and employing local people fine.

[-Ralph-]

A guide? I wouldn't follow him to the nearest pub.

I would. If there's one thing he knows for sure it's where to find a good boozer! :silly: