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Free-wheeling around the world
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'. Leaving on June 17 with his childhood friend Tom Allen, he will travel east around the world. (31/05) Read
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