Tag: cycling around the world
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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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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 175 – 16th February 2020
– ODO- 22023-22162km – Location- Bukit Baru, Malaysia – Weather- 31-37 clear and humid I’m tired today. Last night I rode into Kuala Lumpur for an afternoon off. I stopped to meet my friend Adrian, who I’d last seen on a paragliding launch back in Bir, India – 10,000km hence. To get in early to…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 174 – 15th February 2020
– ODO- 21917-22023km – Location- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Weather- 31-37 storms in the afternoon Often along the side of the road, I encounter a randomised survey of local wildlife in differing states of compression. Often in Europe and Central Asia, it’s a long string of flattened rats and mice and the occasional cat or…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 172 – 13th February 2020
– ODO- 21615-21756km – Location- Palm forest, Malaysia – Weather- 28-36 hot and humid I can’t help but think about Coronavirus. My phone lights up with texts from concerned family, shop attendants wear masks and every podcast I listen to mentions the latest count or tech angle on the infection. It reminds me again of…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 171 – 12th February 2020
– ODO- 21460-21615km – Location- Sungai Putani, Malaysia – Weather- 26-36 hot and humid Malaysians love malls. I have visited Kuala Lumpur previously, for a couple of weeks, and spent most of that time in malls eating donuts and ice-cream but I wasn’t expecting it to extend beyond the capital. I crossed the border too…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 170 – 11th February 2020
– ODO- 21460-21615km – Location- Padang Besar, Malaysia – Weather- 22-31 strong showers across the day My final day in Thailand was a disaster. I started early but with zero energy after a night of deep yet interrupted sleep. The big expanses of palms died off as the sun set so all I was left…