Breaking the Cycle South Pole
The physical mission of Breaking the Cycle South Pole is to make the first bicycle crossing of the Antarctic continent via the South Pole. Route There are several route options, the shortest, simplest being an 1800km journey from Leverett Glacier, (Ross Ice Shelf), 650km to the South Pole and then 1150km down to Hercules Inlet […]
Breaking the Cycle Yukon
Expedition Overview Beginning on 15th March 2017, Breaking the Cycle Yukon was a 4-week extreme cold training expedition through the Canadian Arctic. Working with local expert Bob Daffe, who has been exploring and guiding in Yukon for more than 40 years, I followed a route of approximately 900km from Fort McPherson on the Dempster Highway to […]
Breaking the Cycle Greenland
The first ever bicycle journey through Northeast Greenland 27th April – 13th May 2016 The Nordlandair flight from Akureyri, Iceland’s northerly capital, just below the Arctic Circle, to Constable Point in Northeast Greenland, about 71 degrees N, was spectacular. The Greenland coast was fringed by kilometres of fragmenting sea ice, gradually dispersing into the North […]
Breaking the Cycle in Africa
Website: www.btcycle.com Breaking the Cycle – a world-first cycle expedition across Africa from Senegal to Somalia In 2010 I completed my Breaking the Cycle expedition – a ten month 22,040km journey across Africa from Point des Almadies in Senegal to Cape Hafun in Puntland, Somalia. I completed my ride on August 16th 2010, four […]
Great Australian Cycle Expedition
Ten years after the Trans-Siberian Cycle Expedition, I conceived and organised the Great Australian Cycle Expedition (GRACE), a 25 000-kilometre journey through my own country, 7000 kilometres of which were ‘off road’ on isolated tracks in remote regions. The five main tracks included the Cape York Peninsula Development Road, the Gulf Track, the Tanami Track, […]
Trans-Siberian Cycle Expedition
The 1993 Trans-Siberian Cycle Expedition was a five month, 13,400 kilometre bicycle journey from St Petersburg to Vladivostok to aid the 800,000 children of Chernobyl. Accompanied by Brit Greg Yeoman and five different Russian cyclists who covered various sections of the trip, the 153 day expedition was completed one day ahead of schedule, before the […]