Description
Noel Lynam rode around Ireland overnight with no destination and no phone. After crossing many borders, he rides a Royal Enfield Himalayan 450. This is his story, and what drives him.
It started on a Ducati 900. He told his mother and grandmother he would see them tomorrow, rode to the west coast, watched the sun rise over the River Shannon, and got home at 11am for a traditional Irish breakfast. That one night, about 800km, started a lifetime of motorcycle travel.
In this What Drives Me episode from India Bike Week, the Dublin-born, Chennai-based motorcycle traveller talks about the first time he sat on a motorcycle, on a fuel tank on a Dublin canal bank at 13 while his father passed by in a boat. He talks about the years he spent at sea and the ship that sank, and about border-crossing paperwork, including the scrunched-up slip of paper that got him out of Iraq. He explains why the Himalayan 411 has been called the AK-47 of the motorcycle world, and how he went from a Ducati to the Himalayan 411, the Classic 500 and now the Himalayan 450. He says the motorcycle does not matter. Then he answers what drives him, and it is more personal than most riders would admit.
0:00 Introduction
1:18 Noel Lynam: When did the first motorcycle happen?
3:03 Noel Lynam: The Ireland road trip - first long bike ride
5:54 Noel Lynam: How did Royal Enfield's happen?
7:27 Noel Lynam: Surviving a shipwreck
10:28 Noel Lynam: Paperwork and border crossing
13:26 Noel Lynam: Does the motorcycle matter?
14:11 Noel Lynam: What drives Noel?
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