[58webbing]

The best Bike film I have seen since "On any Sunday" Stunning scenery, perfect filming, great adventure all on Royal Enfields.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3PLM2Ju3oU

[9fingers]

I am only about 1/2 thru it but it is fantastic! thanks for posting.
9fingers

[Nitrowing]

The only bike oriented movie I've really enjoyed is 'The World's Fastest Indian'

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412080/

[Haggis]

Pretty epic trip, respect to the bikes for making it as well.

[Morgan65]

The best Bike film I have seen since "On any Sunday" Stunning scenery, perfect filming, great adventure all on Royal Enfields.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3PLM2Ju3oU

I enjoyed is vid.  Thank you for the link.

[Narada]

That was one hard core Iron Barrel adventure Morgan60! You could really hear those engines thump, reliability was a bit of an issue though... 

The footage of HP was priceless!

[Mad4Bullets]

I thoroughly enjoyed that.  How many of you out there went into troubleshooting mode and took sides when Soggy's kickstart lever jammed? Of course a dropped overhead valve can jam your kickstart lever. ;-)  You wouldn't catch me riding over those suspended bridges. They're certainly a brave lot.

[paulflor1970@gmail.com]

Awesome! Thank you for posting!
i recently completed a 2000 mile/3200KM ride along the coast of California from the Mexico border to Oregon and back through Nevada and Arizona.  It was one of the most rewarding experiences i have ever had.  I would love to do it on my Enfield but unfortunately the traffic speeds are crazy and my RE 500 doesn't like to go too fast.
Enjoy your travels!

[AzCal Retred]

58Webbing - thanks for posting! What a group, what a ride.

[axman88]

The best Bike film I have seen since "On any Sunday" Stunning scenery, perfect filming, great adventure all on Royal Enfields.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3PLM2Ju3oU

Thanks for the heads up, enjoyed the film, "One Crazy Ride". 

Sad to hear that the film's creator and one of the 5 travelers in the film, Gaurav Jani, left us last spring, far too young. 

https://adventuremotorcycle.com/news/gaurav-jani-adventure-film-maker-passes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVTQwF9VQKk

I see that if one of us wants to have our own "One Crazy Ride", there is a moto tour company, which Guarav helped found, which offers that a trip on that route and also other motorcycle touring experiences in that part of the world.     https://www.rideofmylife.in/about

[Frogman8]

Thanks for sharing this.
Very special for me, as my father was a gunner in the Indian Army and served for years in Arunachalam Pradesh, then called the Northeast Frontier Agency (NEFA). It wasn’t yet a state in the 1960s.
There were hardly any roads back then and they transported their mountain guns on Mules, who were trained to sit at the sound of gunfire so the guns could be assembled.
The Mules also had their own ration of Rum and it was a serious offense to embezzle that.

We visited many of those towns on a farewell trip before we left India, but via the route he sought to avoid. My wife is from Assam. Incredibly beautiful and raw landscape.

Incredibly the over 13 tribes that inhabit the state have completely different languages and very limited contact with each other before the 1940s. Their only common language is Hindi, which was introduced as the National language in the 1950s.

Really brave guy and very tragic that he passed. But have to salute the epic adventures in his short life. He made it count.

[Silverback]

Great video! Sad to hear if his passing.
Never realized india had so much virgin land. Beatuiful landscapes

[Morgan65]

Thanks for sharing this.
Very special for me, as my father was a gunner in the Indian Army and served for years in Arunachalam Pradesh, then called the Northeast Frontier Agency (NEFA). It wasn’t yet a state in the 1960s.
There were hardly any roads back then and they transported their mountain guns on Mules, who were trained to sit at the sound of gunfire so the guns could be assembled.
The Mules also had their own ration of Rum and it was a serious offense to embezzle that.

We visited many of those towns on a farewell trip before we left India, but via the route he sought to avoid. My wife is from Assam. Incredibly beautiful and raw landscape.

Incredibly the over 13 tribes that inhabit the state have completely different languages and very limited contact with each other before the 1940s. Their only common language is Hindi, which was introduced as the National language in the 1950s.

Really brave guy and very tragic that he passed. But have to salute the epic adventures in his short life. He made it count.

Some day I’d like to do a guided tour of parts of India on a RE. 

[Narada]

My friend and I have had two years in a row of pandemic cancelations for 15 day Spiti Valley / Leh Ladakh Himalaya ride.    Hoping third year's the charm! 

[AzCal Retred]

@ #13: Looks like a "go" with a new e-Visa? Good luck & post pics!

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