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The film evenings will have Des Molloy (personally) in attendance, and it's a great motorcycle story and a very entertaining DVD.
Please see information below re special film evenings for "The Last Hurrah" throughout NZ, where one of the intrepid travellers, Des Molloy, will be in attendance.
Des and Dick are epic adventurers - if you are free and can make it along when the film shows in your area, I know you won't be disappointed. There is also a website: www.thelasthurrah.co.nz
Please feel free to pass this information on to anyone you can think of - you don't necessarily have to be into motorcycles to appreciate the story.
Here's the story and the dates:
Des Molloy and Dick Huurdeman look like the sort of guys who should be sedately steering a sleigh in a Santa parade, not riding old single-banger British bikes half way across the world through some of the most difficult and remote terrain imaginable. Des's son Steve joined this intrepid pair as cameraman and general factotum for the highs and lows of an incident-packed three-month trek from Beijing to Arnhem on ‘Penelope’, a 1965 Yorkshire-made 650cc Panther, and ‘Dutch Courage’, a 1954 Norton 600.
The route took them across the Northern-most of the Old Silk Roads over the roof of the world through China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, the burning deserts in Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Germany and finally to Arnhem in Holland - nearly 20,000 kilometres. They did the last 5,000 Kilometres in about a week, riding up to 18 hours a day! The journey was traumatic as it was inspiring! Was this idiocy or odyssey? Decide for yourself as you watch the account of their adventures and misadventures. And meet them in person with their old war horses.
Des Molloy lives large in the annals of Panther heroes, having taken the same bike the length of Central and South America in the 1970s. A career, wife, several children and numerous bikes later, the plan was hatched for one last tilt at the world before it all becomes too accessible*
Dick Huurdeman came to New Zealand in 1956, already an experienced motorcyclist. For the 50 years since, he has raced and race prepared motorcycles as varied as his home built Manx Norton DHS ‘Bucephallus’ and the legendary Ducati raced by the late Robert Holden on the world stage. He has also ridden almost every road that New Zealand contains.
Most of Steve Molloy’s two-wheeled adventures have necessitated self power. He has carted his Cannondale to Europe to follow le Tour and he has pedalled his way across Nepal, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. He grabbed the opportunity to ride along, recording the adventure of a lifetime for us all to share.
DVD screenings across New Zealand in November and December 2006:
