<p><strong>By MARK KENNEDY</strong></p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — The last time <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ewan-mcgregor-entertainment-lifestyle-arts-and-entertainment-ef0c2950ecf97f9a8fa66cb958e86662">Ewan McGregor</a> and Charley Boorman went on a motorcycle adventure, they rode cutting-edge, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/1bcceed680fb4836be52fbb4bd63dba1">electric Harley-Davidsons.</a> For their latest trip, they took a trip back in time.</p><p></p><p>The British best friends and actors chose to use vintage bikes this time as they ride through 17 European countries for <a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/show/long-way-home/umc.cmc.26p8x4co2wl0ztetek4gmkf6r">Apple TV+’s “Long Way Home,”</a> the fourth installment of their popular road trip docuseries. It starts airing Friday.</p><p>McGregor picked a 1974 Moto Guzzi Eldorado, which was used as a patrol bike by the Los Angeles Police Department and California Highway Patrol. Boorman picked a rusted-out BMW R75/5 and scrambled to make it road worthy.</p><p>“I guess there’s just sort of nowhere else to go other than backwards,” says McGregor. “We felt that we hadn’t done a trip on old bikes. I’ve always loved old bikes.”</p><h4>A trip to see their neighbors</h4><p>The duo start at McGregor’s home in Scotland — they leave serenaded by a bagpipe band and, naturally, rain — into Holland, up through the Nordics, Arctic Circle, down to the Baltics before going through the Alps and France.</p><p>Unlike the Harleys or BMWs they’ve ridden before, using older bikes gave McGregor and Boorman a nostalgic feeling and something practical: The ability to get them back on the road should disaster strike.</p><p>“They’re fixable,” says McGregor. “At the side of the road, you can pretty much — with a bit of sandpaper and a screwdriver and a hammer — you could probably pretty much get them running again. Whereas with something like the electric bike, if something happens — if something goes wrong, as we learned in Central America — it’s catastrophic.”</p><p>Series highlights include the duo donning Viking costumes and axe throwing in Norway, camping at a windmill near Amsterdam and kayaking alongside a glacier in the Arctic Circle, “It’s so Mad Max everywhere” says McGregor beside the icy water.</p><p>The duo spend the longest day of the year on a beach with a bonfire on an island off the Norwegian coast, try logrolling in Finland, get tattoos in Poland, paraglide in the Alps and spend the night in the northern-most cabin in the world.</p><p>“One of the great things about it is seeing the planet that we live on off the back of a motorcycle when you’re sort of part of the environment. If it’s cold, you’re cold. If it’s wet, you’re wet. It’s a very real experience,” says McGregor.</p><p>
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