We cycled up to Regents Park in the sweltering heat for a photo-shoot with our patron Anne Mustoe, who has also given us a lovely letter of support for our site. Despite the short notice, Anne also gave us a quick interview on video for our upcoming clips on BBC […]

We met with three other bent riders today (James, Magnus, and Simon) to ride up to Windsor Park. The day was full of mishaps from the beginning – when Nic’s left crank fell off two miles down! Being the local boy James came to the rescue and rode to the […]

The bents attract so much (and, occasionally, unwelcome) attention that we have been contemplating changing bikes….so when we saw the new ‘Puky’ bikes in a shop recently we were instantly smitten !! But they will probably have to wait until our next round-the-world trip (this one is only a warm-up […]

When Sedef needed shorter cranks on her bent Ian came to the rescue and found a specialist engineering firm who could provide them for less than a quarter of the market price! So Sedef now has shorter cranks which should be easier on her knees (and a new gearset which […]

With less than 60 days to go we have been extremely busy! There is still so much to do on the route, visas, jabs, and equipment planning, and we have been trying to raise the profile of the event to boost charity donations… And of course,training, training, and more training. […]

We have just found out that our carefully and lovingly mapped out SE Asia route through Myanmar has one minor flaw: it is not possible! Or so we fear after reading various travellers comments on the web. However after much research we stumbled over a press release from the Myanmar […]

We went to the British Airways travel clinic to find out what jabs we will need for the trip – it would probably have been easier for the nurse to tell us what jabs we won’t need! As well as turning us into human pincushions the jabs cost nearly as […]