A mark of McGregor's passion for racing was his agreement to voice the new Faster DVD of manic race action. For an actor who commands up to $10million a movie, he did this for little more than love.
Fatherhood has not slowed McGregor down. His garage is a zoo of two- and four-wheeled machinery. The cars are practical. The bikes are distinctly impractical. "I've got a Toyota Prius, Suzuki Bandit 1200, MV Augusta 750 and a KTM Duke 2," rattles off McGregor. "I want another sports bike and I don't know what to go for. I'm spoiled for choice. The new wave of sports bikes that came out this year are ridiculous. I don't know which one to choose."
As impressive is the list of rides the Scot has had in his biking past. They include a Honda Fireblade, on which he was a regular at Brands Hatch track days, and Ducatis, including one given to him by the director of one of his first movies, Young Adam.
"Jeremy Thomas gave me the motorbike when I did that film, because it was quite low budget," says McGregor, who claims mixing movies and motorbikes is hard. "Easy Rider has got to be one of the best. I've watched it more than ten times. I've tried to get bikes into films, but it's very difficult. Most of the scripts that I've read have decent biking stuff but the story is just not good enough. It's always some excuse of a love story, when all anyone is interested in are the bikes. It's exactly what happened with Steve McQueen's film Le Mans. It's a brilliantly accurate movie about the race, but... there's no story. Trust me, I would love nothing more than to be going to work in the morning to act on a motorbike. It would be like my dream."
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