Meanwhile, Charley is excited about his upcoming South African tours with Compass Expeditions from September 2 to October 11. Next month we will meet up with Charley again at the Bike Shed in London which he co-owns, so stay tuned for our interview. We met Charley on the 2013 Flinders Ranges tour with Compass Expeditions and again in London in 2014. “Sitting either in a hospital bed or wheelchair for months and months seriously focuses the mind and it seemed a pretty good way to use the recovery time,” he says. The book is not only about his recovery, but also his life, his Long Way adventures with friend and Star Was star Ewan McGregor, his dyslexia, his Dakar Rally attempt, the death of older sister Telsche from ovarian cancer at the age of 38 in 1997, and his own loss of a testicle to cancer in 2010. During that time he wrote his seventh book, Long Way Back.
It took more than a year for Charley to fully recover. Charley’s crashĬharley almost lost his leg in Portugal in 2016 when a Mercedes clipped the Triumph Explorer he was riding at a media launch event. In September 2018, he will return to Africa for another Long Way Down tour with his good mate Billy “Biketruck” Ward. The “Long Way” motorcycle adventurer is about to set off for Tasmania on the annual Compass Expeditions tour. Charley Boorman is riding again after his major motorcycle crash in 2016 and ready for his big African adventure later this year.
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