The last time Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman went on a motorcycle adventure, they rode cutting-edge, electric Harley-Davidsons. For their latest trip, they took a trip back in time.
The British best friends and actors chose to use vintage bikes this time as they rode through 17 European countries for Apple TV+โs Long Way Home, the fourth instalment of their popular road trip docuseries. It starts airing on May 9.
McGregor picked a 1974 Moto Guzzi Eldorado, which was used as a patrol bike by the Los Angeles Police Department and California Highway Patrol. Boorman picked a rusted-out BMW R75/5 and scrambled to make it roadworthy.
โI guess thereโs just sort of nowhere else to go other than backwards,โ McGregor says. โWe felt that we hadnโt done a trip on old bikes. Iโve always loved old bikes.โ
The duo start at McGregorโs home in Scotland โ they leave serenaded by a bagpipe band and, naturally, rain โ and head into Holland, up through the Nordics, Arctic Circle, down to the Baltics before going through the Alps and France.