During the 2019 screening of “The Great Escape with Dan Snow,” another of the film’s stuntmen, Tim Gibbes, talked about Ekins’ feat and how they used the wrong type of bike. Gibbes explained, “The Triumph wasn’t really the right bike to be doing it in, it made things a lot more difficult. It was just an ordinary street bike with fancy tyres, one that you’d use to go to the shops.”