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Around the world in 150 days. On a Santos Bike, with belt-drive.

Apr 30th

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James Bowthorpe will try to beat the record on his round-the-world bicycle trip.

The record time for cycling around the world is 194 days 17 hours set by Mark Beaumont early last year. Now British cyclist James Bowthorpe is aiming for 150 days, with a goal of raising funds and awareness for a Parkinson’s disease charity.

The 31-year-old will leave London on 29 March, with a goal of riding 120 miles a day and travelling 18,000 miles through 21 countries. He hopes to raise £1.8 million (US$25m) – £100 (US$140) per mile cycled – for the Psychiatry Research Trust’s What’s Driving Parkinson’s? campaign.

Setting off on his Dutch Santos Travelmaster bike with Rohloff hub and the Santos belt drive system, Bowthorpe will pass through Western and Eastern Europe, Iran, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Portugal and Spain.

Read the following press coverage for more info:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/all-geared-up-for–the-ride-of-his-life-1656047.html

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/british-cyclist-aims-to-break-round-the-world-record-20690

The concept of the world record is well established in the UK and something of a British obsession. The present record holder is a guy called Mark Beaumont who completed the ride last year on a Koga. He received a lot of press coverage and the BBC also produced a 4-part TV documentary which was More >

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New server for BikeTravellers

Oct 15th

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As the BikeTravellers website was too slow and service was disrupted, we have decided to upgrade to an even bigger server, with better connection.

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We have upgraded and moved without any problems. All blogs work much faster now and all problems are gone. If you haven’t done so now, sign up for a new biketravellers.com blog!

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The next few days you might notice downtime and some parts or blogs might be unavailable as it takes some time before the DNS/IP changes take effect over all the DNS servers worldwide. It will be worth it as the new server is much faster, so soon all will be better 🙂

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Welcome

Jun 30th

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Welcome at the new Biketravellers blogs. Here everybody who is interested in bicycles and bike trips can open a free blog and start posting right away!

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