Colin Pyle as Himself

Episodes 12

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Colin and Ryan Pyle take off from Shanghai on their two well-kitted out BMW bikes for an epic adventure. They will cover 18,000 kilometres over 60 days in a circuit of China that has never been attempted before. Within minutes of setting off, Colin is nearly clipped by a giant bus and that's just the first in a series of unexpected obstacles that lie in wait for the Pyle duo. Crazy drivers, 40 degree plus heat, massive landslides, floods, inhospitable towns and dangerous falls will hamper their progress as they wind north from Shanghai, cross the Yangtze River and on to the border of China and the hermit kingdom of North Korea.

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Ryan and Colin Pyle bike to Inner Mongolia, bunking down for a night in a yurt village before visiting one of China's largest wind farms. Heading away from the idyllic grassland and rolling green hills they strike the world's largest traffic jam, where some trucks are stuck for 20 days. Forging slowly forward the Pyle brothers hit a nasty sand storm in Xinjiang province, before striking camp at the lowest landsite in China, 150 meters below sea level.

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China's Wild West

70%
April 17, 2013
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Ryan and Colin Pyle leave their moon-scape camping ground at Turpan and head across the salt flats to Xinjiang, China's Wild West. In a few hours they travel from 150m below sea level to 3300m above sea level in freezing temperatures. In the ancient Muslim city of Kashgar, they celebrate the end of Ramadan before venturing into the far western borderlands riding on the Karakoram Highway, the world's highest border crossing at 5200m above sea level, towards the border of China and Pakistan. However, at this point disaster strikes when Ryan takes a serious fall.

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Towards Tibet

80%
April 24, 2013
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After Ryan has recovered from the worst motorcycle fall he's ever had, the Pyle brothers aim for Tibet on the G219 highway, passing mountains and lakes including one of the most holy places in Asia, Lake Manasarovar. Their ultimate goal is Mount Everest Base Camp, but it's not going to come easy. They end up camping on a desolate road 4000m above sea level. As Ryan attempts to celebrate his 32nd birthday, his bike's clutch burns out and the brothers are stranded in Zhongba, their fate in the hands of a local bike mechanic and facing the very real possibility that their epic journey could come to a premature end.

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Mount Everest and Lhasa

70%
May 1, 2013
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A local Zhongba motorcycle repairman comes to the Pyle brother's rescue, managing to get the BMW bike clutch back in working order. But further disaster strikes when Colin's bike blows a tyre. The journey is now in real jeopardy, with both bikes off the road and no clutch parts available in all of China. When the bike part finally arrives from Toronto, and Ryan and Colin make it to Mount Everest Base Camp, 12,500km from Shanghai. Their sense of achievement is fleeting; on their way back to Lhasa, they discover the road into Eastern Tibet has been indefinitely closed.

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Shangri La to Shanghai

75%
Season Finale
May 8, 2013
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The closure of the Eastern Tibetan border forces the Pyle brothers to travel by plane reconnecting with their bikes in Shangri-La. From here they head to Guizhou province, but the improvement of the road tarmac and heavy rain make the road travel incredibly dangerous and Colin smashes his bike into a tree. Back on the road with new street tyres, Ryan and Colin make their way through the mystical karst landscape of Guilin and on to the manufacturing heartland of China before striking out for Shanghai, via Putoushan island and the Yangshan Port, the biggest and busiest port in the world.

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Colin and Ryan Pyle set off from Delhi on their iconic Indian Royal Enfield bikes for an epic adventure. They will cover 14,000 kilometres over 54 days in a circuit of India. Neither Ryan nor Colin has ever been to India before, much less ridden on crazy roads full of sacred cows and overcrowded cars. Their journey begins by winding their way north up into the foothills of the Himalaya. They navigate over narrow mountain roads to Manali, the extreme sport capital of India, before navigating over a notorious mountain pass, 4000m above sea level, called The Rohtang Pass...

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After surviving India's dangerous mountain roads, the Pyle's head to Amritsar, home to the peaceful Sikh Golden Temple and the volatile Indian - Pakistan Border. The daily flag lowering ceremony is a massive carnival, with spectators on either side of the border cheering for their respective side. Heading down from the mountains, they experience the last of the monsoon rains and enter India's Great Indian Desert of Rajasthan.

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Rajasthan to Mumbai

70%
June 28, 2014
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Colin and Ryan Pyle are in Rajasthan, famous for brightly painted palace hotels. The first stop in the heat of the Indian desert is the world famous rat temple in Bikaner. Colin doesn't last very long among the rat infestation and soon after is hit with a bad case of "Delhi-belly". After recovering from food poisoning, they head to south to Mumbai: home of Bollywood and the world's worst traffic jams. Navigating through Mumbai, Ryan has the first crash of the journey.

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Southern India

70%
June 28, 2014
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On their journey down the Indian south west coast, the Pyle brothers visit Mahindra's mega car factory, and Colin takes the test to become a car factory worker. Ryan recovers from his first fall of the trip, he's not seriously hurt but his bike is in need of repair. After another mechanical failure on Ryan's bike, Colin starts to question Ryan's riding ability. By day 29 they reach India's southernmost point called Cape Comorin or sunset point, where they watch the sun go down on the half-way mark of their epic journey.

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Madurai to Kolkata

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June 28, 2014
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Madurai is a 2000 year old city and one of the world's oldest inhabited cities. As the journey continues north up the east coast of India, the carnage on the roads continues. A side trip to an elephant sanctuary in Odisha Province showcases the beauty of India's national parks. Onwards to the Bay of Bengal and Kolkata, where Colin and Ryan Pyle visit a hospital and school for the blind run by the Seva Foundation. The Seva Foundation has restored the eyesight of over 3 million people in Asia and Africa; here the Pyle's witness how quick turnaround cataract surgery can ...

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Darjeeling to Delhi

70%
Season Finale
June 28, 2014
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Darjeeling is the tea capital of India, Ryan and Colin Pyle join an army of tea pluckers whose premium tea, picked under the full moon, fetches over USD$900 per kilo. The last leg of the trip takes them to Bodhgaya, the birthplace of Buddhism, and then it's off for a dip in the Ganges River at Varanasi, before heading to Agra and the iconic Taj Mahal, the world's most famous mausoleum. Finally after 54 days on the road, the Pyle brothers arrive back at the India Gate in Delhi to end their epic tough ride around India.

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