In the Long Way Up, McGregor and Boorman used a pair of H-D LiveWire electric motorcycles, a bike that has already proven itself in multiple long-distance trips. While electric motorcycles have made progress with increasingly larger battery sizes as well as reduced charging times, long distance trips are still more challenging and require increased planning on electric motorcycles.īut that doesn’t mean that they can’t be done. The series will cover the pair’s 13,000-mile (21,000-km) journey and shed light on the unique trials and tribulations they experienced while touring with electric motorcycles - a feat that even the staunchest of e-motorcycle evangelicals will admit is still the bike’s Achilles heel.

Three episodes will be released simultaneously, with a new episode following each week. The show will have its global premiere on September 18 on the Apple TV+ platform. So far we’ve only gotten brief glimpses of the bikes, but soon we’ll get to learn all of the details when the series premieres next month. There aren’t many electric adventure bikes out there to choose from, so the LiveWires were kitted out to turn them into adventure touring models. However for the latest installment, they opted for electric motorcycles instead, ultimately landing on the Harley-Davidson LiveWire. Previously, the pair used BMW adventure bikes. The Long Way Up series follows McGregor’s and Boorman’s previous two long-distance motorcycle treks, the Long Way Round and the Long Way Down. When Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman set out from the southern tip of Argentina last year on a pair of Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycles, we knew that we’d eventually get to see their hemisphere-spanning trip in the new series Long Way Up.Īnd now we’re learning that the long wait will finally be over soon.

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