The man in Cooper BMW on Park Lane laughed. He wanted to know why I wanted to trade in my lovely bells and whistles one for a sort of trial bike style one that was positively bell-less with nowhere even to think about putting a whistle. When I said I wanted to ride around the Mediterranean and North Africa for a year on it and ‘oh, and by the way, the woman I intend to marry is coming with me and she’ll need one too’, was the bit when he laughed. I’ve never been sure whether he laughed because we were doing it or because my about-to-be-wife was coming with me… He stopped laughing when we bought two R100 GS’s from his colleague – a Mk I and a brand new Mk II – now these details may not be important to you but someone reading this will eventually find that bit interesting. In case it’s not you and you want some sort of context then these are the original, older versions of the motorbikes used by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman in the Long Way Round.
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