Tag: bikepacking
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The descent from Jebel Shams
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Rain in the desert causes first mechanical issues.
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Bonus Video: Oman Cycle/Bikepacking Kit Video
In this bonus video, I share all the kit I took on my bike packing trip, over 600km of the Hajar mountains in Oman. The kit has come on so much since I cycled around the world. Watch the full video from the trip.
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Video: Englands Toughest Hike and Fly Race – X-Lakes 2024
Watch my two-day hike and fly race across the Lake District at the X-Lakes 2024.
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Video: My Unconventional First 50 Hours Paragliding – SHGPC Talk – April 2024
After completing my Advanced Pilot exam, Robin from the Southern Hangliding Club asked me to do a talk about my 2018 bicycle and paragliding trip – my first 50 hours of flying a paraglider.
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South of the Equator – Day 181 – 15 March 2020
– ODO-22631-22787km – Location- Tegal, Indonesia – Weather- 26-37 I realised today for the first time that I crossed the equator. On my ferry from Singapore to Jakarta a couple of weeks ago, while I’ll slept in my bunk, I made it to the other half of the globe almost two years since leaving home.…
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Cycling Across Java – Day 180 – 14 March 2020
– ODO- 22491-22631km – Location- Pamanukan, Indonesia – Weather- 27-38 Today was my first day if my ride across the Indonesian island of Java. After crossing the city from my ferry I was ready for the same crazy roads and I wasn’t disappointed. I left at 4 am to cross central Jakarta before the major…
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32 Hour PELNI Ferry from Singapore to Jakarta Ben Around the World Diary – Day 178/179 – 26th/27th February 2020
– ODO- 22415-22491km – Location- West Jakarta – Weather- 28-32 and humid on the ocean, some rain on the morning of the 27th As part of cycling around the world, I try to fly as little as possible. After cycling through Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and into Singapore I reached the end of the…
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Avoiding Coronavirus Lockdown in Indonesia – My Flight for COVID-19 2020 Cycle Touring Diary
The last 48 hours have been an epic journey travelling back from small-town Indonesia with my bicycle and all my kit. Here’s how and I why I came back early from my round the world bikepacking trip. I still have 9 months worth of footage to edit from the last year on the road! Subscribe…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 176 – 17th February 2020
– ODO- 22162-22311km – Location- Simpang Renggam, Malaysia – Weather- 31-36 shower in the morning I must have been through a hundred blank hotel rooms by now. Cheap Malaysian hotels seem to be exclusively windowless. Internal white cubes with zero natural light and zero ventilation, which is made even worse by the fact that you’re…