Posted by: Ewan McGregor

Ewan and Charley took a break from the riding and appeared on the Chris Moyles show this morning...

Listen to the interview by selecting the clip above. If you'd like to listen to the whole show, or download the interview as a podcast, head to the Chris Moyles site.

Here's some highlights from the show ...

Charley has relished the beginning of the trip. 'It’s taken us about a year to get it all together, and since January its been really full on - trying to find a route, deciding where we want to go on our trip. All the preparation is quite hard work, but its just nice to get out on the bikes and ride.'

Ewan went on to discuss the weather and the bikes. 'We encountered more rain in one day in France than we did in the 3 months we did Long Way Round. It just poured and poured on us. But it’s been good, we’ve been blasting through Europe really, we’re done really well and we’re all in good shape. The show will be on BBC TWO in November so we’re just hoping that lots of crazy things happen to us like they did last time, otherwise it could be a really long, boring TV show!

'We’ve got BMW Adventurers but they’ve remodelled them. They’ve got bigger engines - 1200 cc - and they’re lighter, they’ve shaved about 30kg off so they’re much nicer to ride. Although, I am very fond of the old 1150. We ride most of the day, but it depends. Our mileages will change as we get deeper into Africa with its gravel roads and deep sand, but still we’ll be riding for most of the day. We ride and stop to film all of the time so for us a 300 mile day takes a long time.'