Top Gear Scooter race across Vietnam; Cars to much Dong

chicagoscooterclub

http://www.chicagoscooterclub.com/2008/12/top-gear-travels-the-world-finds-scooters/

ROFL

ericalm · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:07 am Post subject:

Hilarious. I'm going to volunteer to be Top Gear US's scooter guy.

chicagoscooterclub · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:35 am Post subject:

Man if they come to Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Dallas, Austin, Tulsa, OKC, Nashville, Louisville, D.C., Phoenix, Oahu, New Orleans, or Seattle I am all over it..as those our friends haunts.

Hell, we even have friends in London, Paris, Italy, and Berlin we're just broke and can't travel that far sucka. Whew

Kaos · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:24 am Post subject:

Man, I just watched this episode last night. That was one of the most hilarious episodes yet! Though the way Clarkson parked his scooter(simply letting go and letting it land where it would) hurt to watch.

siobhan · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject:

Bump!

The b/f surprised me last night (after returning from a 1/2 hour ride to charge up the battery...thanks snow) by having it queued up and ready to watch on the tv through sources that shall remain unspoken. It is simply fantastic. Makes me want to go and I hate humidity.

Features a VietBodge Vespa, a Honda Cub (yeah!) and a Russian Minsk motorbike.

If you want to watch online:
Part 1 (60 minutes): http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Top-Gear-Vietnam-Specail_208329.htm
Part 2 (15 minutes): http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Top-Gear-Vietnam-Special_208399.htm

MikieTaps · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject:

this is awesome! Very Happy

Kevin K · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject:

I LOVE that episode!

I love all of the episodes that feature some sort of challenge.
Top Gear actually inspired us enough to have a challenge of our own:
give three riders $300 and two months to find and prepare a bike.

Here's the results: http://www.motorbyte.com/mmm/pages/2009/108/feature108.htm

Pictures from the event:

http://twofastdogs.smugmug.com/gallery/5913608_76nmW#367986449_PNL78

http://www.gearwhore.smugmug.com/gallery/5909349_RFXAr#367622421_HHt88

http://www.gearwhore.smugmug.com/gallery/5917771_5Fo9N#368324146_NPkYQ

Enjoy.
-K

Kaos · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject:

siobhan · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:53 pm Post subject:

Quo Vadimus · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 3:10 am Post subject:

Fans of Clarkson might enjoy his article about the economy (here)

but what I'm most concerned about is the fact that he mentions there's a whole segment that was cut from the Vietnam episode featuring "the Stig’s Vietnamese cousin. This had been tough to make. We’d located a local motorcycle stunt rider, we’d shipped a bike over from Japan, we’d done two recces and written several treatments, and 25 people had spent a whole day filming the scene under a sticky sky and watchful gaze of government officials who kept wanting to see the rushes."

What are the chances we'll ever see it? Anyone have a source?

Quo Vadimus · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:14 am Post subject:

Anyone have a currently working link for online viewing? Streetfire's been removed, and what I see on YouTube is highlights or something.

Weather's starting to warm up and I'm considering making watching this a tradition. I suppose I *could* spend the $19 for the whole season on DVD, but I want to watch NOW!!!!

Skootz Kabootz · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:36 am Post subject:

It's on Netflix if you have that.

JSharpPhoto · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:17 am Post subject:

or just buy that episode on itunes for 1.99

Quo Vadimus · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks JSharp. My parents get me an iTunes gift card every year for Christmas and I never know what to do with it... perhaps because I never think of iTunes when there's something I want...

Halloweenie · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:56 pm Post subject:

I have that episode on my iPod, I just love it when Jeremy goes down on the bike just as he is starting to enjoy it.

TVB · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:24 pm Post subject:

ericalm · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:52 pm Post subject:

BootScootin'FireFighter · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:07 pm Post subject:

JSharpPhoto · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:48 pm Post subject:

i *think* it's the last episode of series 11 (the last episode available on netflix).

We're about a year behind on BBC America, and six months behind that on DVD, and another year behind that on Netflix. so..... it was filmed about 3 years ago.

PeterC · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:02 pm Post subject: Too much dong?

I'm shocked, shocked. All of my youthful assumptions are shattered. Is there such a thing as too much dong?

TVB · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:41 pm Post subject: Re: Too much dong?

BootScootin'FireFighter · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:41 pm Post subject:

just finished watching it! ROFL

The bucket and wok helmets were histerical, but nothing tops hauling a model antique warship across all of Vietnam! Thanks for sharing that, although I was a little late to the party.

ScootLemont · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 3:27 pm Post subject:

I love top gear UK

cheez37 · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject: