Small update: We did it! The bike is race ready for Dirtquake #, thanks for the help everyone, especially you BC!
We couldn't have done it without you :)
Dropped my phone in the toilet this week so no instagram updates lately, sorry about that! You might have followed the progress on my brothers instagram: Martin_Schuurmans. We had some problems last weekend but we managed to get the GR650 Dirtquake ready :)
I convinced my Martin to come along to Dirtquake after I let him test ride the bike, haha. First time for him on a motorbike. Let's hope he's hooked from now on. My boss will give me the last two hours off on Friday so we're leaving Amsterdam around 15.00 hour this friday.
Just booked the Eurotunnel train at 22.30 so we're gonna arrive late in Norfolk but it looks we're gonna make it..!
Now I'm getting real nervous, ha!
A non rider on Paracinema wrote a nice review of the movie.
I edited a bit because it's a a lot of words and some of is just wrong but it's a nice read.
Read the complete review here
"Cycles South is a documentary about 3 guys (and a handful of
crew) driving tiny engine 2-stroke (they start onfour strokes) motorcycles all the way from Denver
to Panama in 4 months. These dudes don’t just take the highways and
bi-ways though. Oh no, most of the time they’re cruising through
forests, deserts, and beaches on non-off-road bikes. Hell these aren’t
even dual purpose bikes, they’re straight up street rides which is
pretty amazing. Driving over tree branches, crashing through jungles and
swamps, these guys are hardcore. They eat shit a lot too which the
narrator points out to us viewers in his sarcastic, older-brother
bullying way. Speaking of the narrator this film is filled with sexist
remarks, women are annoying “beavers” and our fearless trio is always on
the prowl for “their favorite kind of meat.” Personally I thought all
the blue remarks were hilarious as they are a product of their time.
Political correctness was an unknown idea at the time and it shows. Men
used to be crass and pigs and although I’m glad my generation has grown
up a bit it’s still refreshing to see a movie devoid of pretension and
cautiousness. These guys are constantly facing certain doom being stuck
out in the middle of nowhere with no help, no cell phones, and no
medical attention so I can’t really blame them for being crass. They’ve
got bigger worries. The footage in this film is unreal. They ride their bikes through
railroad tracks into pitch black tunnels with no idea of what’s inside.
They ride along railroad trestles, one mistake from falling to their
deaths. They ride through rivers, up mountains, through sand and dunes,
all on bikes with smaller engines than are commercially available today
on street tires! The most amazing footage features a handlebar view of
racing through a busy street in Oaxaca, Mexico, riding between cars,
dodging pedestrians (in one case grazing a man carrying a basket of
oranges) and blasting past police. Truly white knuckle stuff. These
dudes are bad asses from the old-school. Fearless, beer drinking, stream
fishing, womanizing, hairy chested men. These guys crash left and right
and get back up laughing, ready for more. They aren’t professional
riders, just outdoors men with a bucket of balls. Cycles South is an inspiring look at a life lived for
adventure, without worry, or desire for material goods. The only desire
these dudes had was for cheap women and good times. Screw the house and a
fancy car. Give me freedom of choice any day."
I personally love the music they used in this docu movie.
The space trip jumping around part is crazy nice with the trippy synthesiser bleeps.
I think one of the bikes is a BSA Hornet.
Anyone knows more about the bikes in the movie?
