- Paperback: 500 pages
- Publisher: Rockbuy Limited (9 Feb 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904466281
- ISBN-13: 978-1904466284
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 348,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Motorcycle Sport & Leisure, August 2006
"Adventure motorcycling as it should be."
TBM, July 2006
This fantastically entertaining globetrotting tale is a must for anyone who has ever dreamed of having a go themselves.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mondo A -Go -Go,
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This review is from: Mondo Enduro: The Ultimate Adventure on Two Wheels - 44,000 Miles in 400 Days (Paperback)
In 1994, seven pals decide down the pub (where else?) to motorcycle around the world by the longest route possible. Before departure, not one of them has ever repaired a punctured tyre. They fail to get sponsorship, travel insurance, and most of their travel visas. Even a cursory glance at the map suggests that in Eastern Siberia the road is blocked by 400 miles of impassable swamp. When they ask a BBC journalist about Georgia, they are told - categorically - 'they will not last five minutes'.
Over the next year and a bit the bikers log their daily observations, gleefully recounting in classic British tradition every small discomfort, crash and humiliation to befall their fellow travellers. With little money to spare, wit and improvisation are the order of the day: lost bike documents are forged in Istanbul, gambling debts paid with fake watches, Russian traffic cops placated with a drunken shooting competition. They are attacked by skin eating insects, harried by border guards, swept away by floods, and in once case, nearly killed by an African lorry. Sleeping in barns or under the stars, the shocking state of personal hygiene scuppers (almost) every encounter with the opposite sex. The triumphs more than make up for this. The former Soviet Union, South America and Africa come across like an infinite, awe inspiring biker's playground. They didn't know it at the time, but one of the lads actually meets his future wife on the road. While fear has become the national psychosis in today's post 9/11 world, these unassuming journeymen prove that if you greet the world with a joke and a smile, the world in the shape of Serbian farmers, Saudi businessmen and Kalahari bushmen almost always respond with humbling kindness and hospitality. Largely written for their own amusement, Mondo Enduro is nevertheless one of the cheeriest, most bracing celebrations of cultural difference, friendship, and the open road I think I have ever read. Brilliant.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Even better than the DVD,
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This review is from: Mondo Enduro: The Ultimate Adventure on Two Wheels - 44,000 Miles in 400 Days (Paperback)
Whether you are planning a journey yourself or if you have never ridden a motorcycle and have yet to venture out of your home town, this book is a must read. Mondo Enduro prove that all you need is a 'get up and go' attitude to turn every day into the adventure of a lifetime; and all without the need for back-up teams, mechanics or sponsors.
WARNING: This book may be inspired to quit your job, sell your home and live under a poncho for a year.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Long Way Round" is "Mondo Slimline" by comparison,
This review is from: Mondo Enduro: The Ultimate Adventure on Two Wheels - 44,000 Miles in 400 Days (Paperback)
Those of you who have seen the Discovery TV series "Easy Riders - Mondo Enduro" will know of Austin Vince and the rest of the boys as they attempt to motorcycle round the world the hard way: through Europe and Asia, down the length of the Americas and back through Africa. For those of you who haven't, you've missed out on a great travel adventure.
"Mondo Enduro" bears no comparison to "Long Way Round" - quite simply Austin &co. hadn't a clue what they were doing and blundered from adventure to adventure. From burst bike bearings in the middle of Siberia to being arrested for straying into the most restricted military zone in Turkey; they had to use their wits to get by. It's quite remarkable that they got out of Western Europe, never mind 44000 miles round the world! This is a wacky, humorous, brilliantly entertaining book and it's not just for bikers: it's a shoestring-budget travel classic up there with the best of them.
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