More details emerge about upcoming “Hairy Bikers Route 66” episodes

Broadcast magazine, based in the United Kingdom, and the BBC gave more details about next month’s “Hairy Bikers Route 66” miniseries that will air on BBC2.

According to the BBC, the first episode will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Sept. 12 on BBC2.

The Hairy Bikers are Si King and Dave Myers, who’ve been on television as a duo since 2004 and have co-written nearly two dozen books about travel and food.

Among the details about the six one-hour episodes revealed by Broadcast and the BBC Media Centre in the articles’ text and photographs:

• The Hairy Bikers crew cooked a meal on a riverboat on the Mississippi River in St. Louis.
• They visited the late Gary Turner’s Gay Parita gas station in Paris Springs, Missouri.
• They helped cook in the kitchen of a Chicago barbecue stand.
• They learned about “the stance” of eating Italian beef sandwiches in Chicago.
• They sample a concrete at Ted Drewes Frozen Custard in St. Louis.
• They visited an Amish community, likely during a side trip in central Illinois.
• They checked out Monument Valley, a common side trip for Route 66 travelers.
• They visited Bosnian immigrants in St. Louis, who came to the Gateway City as refugees from the Yugoslavian civil war of the 1990s.
• They mused about the Tulsa Race Massacre of the early 1920s.
• They checked out one of the famed fried onion burger restaurants in El Reno, Oklahoma.
• They ate burgers at the Golden Light Cafe in Amarillo.
• They stopped at the Midpoint Cafe in Adrian, Texas.
• They apparently ended their trek at the “66 End of the Trail” sign at Santa Monica Pier.

From social media and newspapers, we know the Hairy Bikers also visited:

• The Launching Pad Drive-In restaurant in Wilmington, Illinois
• Cornerstone First Edition Pizza and Subs, Kix on Route 66 and Motel Safari, all of Tucumcari, New Mexico
• Mother Road Market in Tulsa

The articles included comments from the show’s producers, plus King and Myers themselves.

Myers said:

“When we did Route 66, there was so much passion and excitement, and it was quite special and really memorable. Almost lifechanging for all of us, really.”

The “Hairy Bikers” are so popular in the UK, it wouldn’t be surprising to see another surge of British tourists on Route 66, much like the one in the wake of the “Billy Connolly’s Route 66” television miniseries in 2011.

(Image of the Hairy Bikers at Gay Parita station via BBC Media Centre)