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On the Road for 4 Years and 25,000 Miles
In a sense, cycling around the world was easy. I bought a steel mountain bike (which I had to weld back together six times), put a repair kit, tent, sleeping bag, stove, water filter, sunscreen, clothes and peanut butter in the panniers, and had the determination to keep the pedals spinning for 4 years, 25,752 miles, 50 countries and 6 continents. (19/10) ReadYou may also like
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Hometown Weekly | 26/06/08
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‘Bike mystery is simply baffling'
Bradford Telegraph Argus, | 12/06/08
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Get In The Saddle
Daily Record | 12/06/08
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Teen steals bike ... at gunpoint
Ottawa Sun | 06/06/08
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Giro d'Italia classifications demystified
Cyclingnews | 15/05/08
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British cyclist Tom Austin among latest victims on the Road of Death
Timesonline | 01/05/08 
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The Times | 28/09/06
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Koreans win big at Vietnamese bike race
Thanhniennews | 03/05/07
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Student Hopes To Break Human Land Speed Record Using Bullet Shaped Bicycle
Science Daily | 13/09/07
Bouchard, a senior in mechanical engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, will try to break the collegiate human-powered land speed record of 61.5 ... Read
Dahle-Flesjå and Absalon the best ever?
Velonews | 05/01/07
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All you need to know about: mountain-biking
Guardian | 07/06/07
Oli Beckingsale is the British mountain bike champion and Commonwealth Games silver medallist. Keep your tyres soft Unlike a road bike, where you want ... Read
Oli's mountain bike diary, part 1
BBC | 31/08/07
The days are counting down and now it�s only 10 days to the biggest MTB race of the year and my season�s goal, the World Championships. The ... Read
Cannondale Issues Safety Recall on Lefty Forks
Cannondale | 24/05/07
Cannondale has voluntarily issued a Safety Recall Notice with the Consumer Product Safety Commission involving any 2007 and some 2008 mountain bikes equipped ... Read
Cycle thieves 'dismantle' garage
BBC | 15/12/06
Determined thieves took apart a Darlington man's garage brick by brick to steal mountain bikes worth £6,000.
The gang also dismantled three street ... Read
Basic training gets bike riders in gear for the trail
Seattle Post Intelligencer | 31/08/06
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Nouse.uk | 31/05/07
York graduate Andrew Welch plans to break world records by circumnavigating the planet on a mountain bike, a journey which has been dubbed ‘Ride-Earth'. ... Read
Big wheels OK, say UCI
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CNET Networks | 03/07/08
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Triathlon incidents may be wake-up call
Charleston Post Courier | 03/07/08
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Pedaling through life: Love for bikes prompts business
molokaitimes.com | 26/06/08
When Phillip Kikukawa was 6 years old, he wrote a letter to Santa Claus asking for a bicycle.
Kipukawa woke up Christmas morning to find his very first ... More
When is a bike not a bike? When it's electric
The Sydney Morning Herald | 20/06/08
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Coping with bike flat situations
heNewsTribune.com | 20/06/08
A bicycle tire problem can quickly interrupt - or even spoil - a day of serious open road or mounting biking.
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Get In The Saddle
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Giro di PEZ: On The Pirate's Roads
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Tubeless Tyres Set For Breakthrough
Bike Europe | 22/05/08
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Cycling Success Measured in Frequent-Flier Miles
The New York Times | 09/05/08
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Pretty in pink
BBC | 09/05/08
Although not as iconic as its elder French cousin, the Giro is one third of cycling's "Triple Crown", along with Le Tour and the Road World Championships.
It ... More
Passing surgeon comes to the rescue of cyclist
Timesonline | 09/05/08
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British cyclist Tom Austin among latest victims on the Road of Death
Timesonline | 01/05/08
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Hot sun and snakes on the road
Cyclingnews | 01/02/07
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A bike helmet built for road hazards
news.com | 31/08/06
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Danish capital to host string of cycling world championships
International Herald Tribune | 26/01/07
Denmark has been awarded three international cycling races. The 2008 BMX world championship and the 2010 indoor cycling worlds will be held in Copenhagen, ... Read
Sophie rewarded for bike safety
Swindon Advertiser | 11/01/07
Safety conscious Sophie Grange won a new bike as a reward for wearing her helmet while on the roads. Four-year-old Sophie was riding near her home in Upper ... Read
New cycling test set for children
BBC | 07/09/06
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30.000 cyclists get green traffic light wave
Copenhagen Capacity | 28/12/06
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Green machines for our selves and the planet
Tandem | 24/05/07
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Guardian | 07/06/07
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Tour de Torture: Who Is Prepared to Suffer the Most?
The New York Times | 03/07/08
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U B the expert: Do your own bike repairs
WalletPop | 03/07/08
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Ride to work and take the strain out of buying a bike
Independent | 20/06/08
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Season's first ride needn't be a pain
Canada.com | 06/06/08
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Thief Who “Tried Out” Bike Apprehended, Unpunished
Gothamist | 29/05/08
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Mike's Flying Bike for Google Earth
Google Earth Blog | 23/05/08
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Bikeradar | 15/05/08
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The Fixed-Gear Trend in Santa Cruz
City on a Hill Press | 09/05/08
Taylor Holmes pedals wildly as he charges downhill from the UC Santa Cruz campus, his skin-tight black jeans quickly spinning into blurs as he struggles ... More
Victoria Pendleton: pedal to the medal
Telegraph | 01/05/08
Gold medals are rare treasures for British athletes. But the track cyclist Victoria Pendleton already has quite a collection of them, beginning with the ... Read
The man who pushed his bike 175 miles – in Alaska
Worcester News | 15/04/08
AS Christian Cullinane admitted, it was no place to have the pedal fall off your bike. With temperatures touching minus 30C and the white wilderness of ... Read
Cinema-goers get on bikes to power film reel
Lancashire Evening Post | 03/04/08
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It's likely more eyes ... Read
Wheels of fortune: The great debate rolls on between cyclists and motorists
Yorkshire Post | 29/03/07
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Bride on a bike for two
Manchester Evening News | 18/01/07
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Journey expands cyclist's horizons
Journal Sentinel | 22/02/07
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What does riding a bike have to do with building my Network Marketing/MLM business?
American Chronicle | 24/05/07
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Pedal power
The Guardian | 12/04/07
In his first three years at secondary school, Kevin Kane's mum was spending more than £5 a week from her tight family budget so he could get the ... Read
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The Sydney Morning Herald | 11/01/07
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La Ruta 2006
Bikemag | 09/11/06
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Let's change the bike laws
SFBG | 20/06/08
Should bicyclists be allowed to treat stop signs as “yields” and stop lights like stop signs? Tomorrow, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Bicycle ... More
Season's first ride needn't be a pain
Canada.com | 06/06/08
About to pedal off on the first bike ride of the season? Ten words: Take it easy. Cool down after. Or you'll be sorry.
Saddle sores? Aching back anyone?
The ... More
Bike museum is judge's passion
Kentucky.com | 29/05/08
With so many bicycles on display, it's easy to overlook the framed, black-and-white photograph hanging on the back wall.
Taken in 1954, the photo shows ... More
Extreme marks the spot
The Sydney Morning Herald | 22/05/08
If acrobat Alexandra Harrison has learned one thing from performing in Paradise City, it's that you don't get between a BMX champ and his bike.
At ... More
Reflectivity, why not more?
Bicycle Desgn | 22/05/08
This picture, from our local bike to work day breakfast last week, shows one of the red blinkie lights on the back of my commuter bike. I have one on my ... More
Giro di PEZ: On The Pirate's Roads
Pez Cyclingnews | 22/05/08
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The Fixed-Gear Trend in Santa Cruz
City on a Hill Press | 09/05/08
Taylor Holmes pedals wildly as he charges downhill from the UC Santa Cruz campus, his skin-tight black jeans quickly spinning into blurs as he struggles ... More
Laid-back triathlete works to lift himself over Ironman hump
SignOnSanDiego.com | 29/03/07
It's not as if Luke Bell's biological clock were ticking. Five weeks shy of 28, the Australian triathlete is in the prime of his career. Still, critics ... Read
A Ride On The Funky Side
Bicycling | 12/04/07
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Tour de France strikes back at federation's grip on the big races
Guardian | 15/12/06
The festering conflict between the sport's governing body, the International Cycling Union, and major race organisers took a serious turn yesterday when ... Read
Tour de PEZ: Roadside Wrap-Up 1
Pez Cyclingnews | 01/08/07
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The meeting of minds
The Guardian | 23/11/06
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Very Veronica: Back From The Brink
Pez Cyclingnews | 17/08/07
Just before she was due to ride the Swedish nationals as the TT favorite, our newest pro diarist Veronica Andréasson was hit by a car while training ... Read
Matt Seaton's top 10 books about cycling
The Guardian | 31/07/07
Matt Seaton's haunting memoir, The Escape Artist, charts the physical and emotional consequences of his obsession with cycling, and his struggle with ... Read
'Cycling those carbon emissions away'
BBC | 02/03/07
The council plans to have 500 bicycles located at 25 points around the city for public use 24 hours a day. For a small charge, still to be determined, ... Read
Monsieur Felix and his bicycle tricks
Seattle Times | 08/02/07
Here's an entertainment tip if you're in the vicinity of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Go to the back of the church and find the Pont St. Louis, a pedestrian ... Read
The Sideways Bike: Like Surfing the Streets
Wired News | 13/07/07
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What does riding a bike have to do with building my Network Marketing/MLM business?
American Chronicle | 24/05/07
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Bike parking
Guardian | 09/11/06
You know that something is afoot if bike parking is getting trendy. When architects and academics have decided it's time to wrest control of the humble ... Read
Mister Skunk exhibits his robots of bike parts and recycled trash
Somerville Journal | 26/06/08
She stands 3 feet tall, her wings spread to reveal a vicious saw hanging beside her gleaming metal waist.
“Hathor” is a creature of welded steel, and ... More
Scientist spends a fortnight underwater
Timesonline | 19/04/07
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Bicycle spokes
The Hindu | 29/06/07
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Financial Times | 08/08/07
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