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Interview with Derek Cullen – Cycling solo across Africa

Tired of the monotony of everyday life, 32 year old Irishman Derek Cullen mounted an old bike and began an epic unsupported cycle across Africa. It is a story with the potential to inspire the ordinary person, to break down the very shackles that we confine ourselves to.  I, myself really wanted to interview him,Continue reading “Interview with Derek Cullen – Cycling solo across Africa”

Riding to Break the Cycle

Cycle a continent, or cycle the world. If you are going to do it, do it with these guys; Riding to Break the Cycle. 1.Why did you pick cycling as the mode of travel? I read a blog recently that referred to bikes as “tools and vehicles that make life better.” I think this doesContinue reading “Riding to Break the Cycle”

Interview with Sean Conway – Next in line to attempt the G.W.R for the fastest cycle around the world.

1.What expeditions/adventures have you been on to date? Not a lot really. Well not as much as I would have liked to have done. I have done Kilimanjaro (dressed as a penguin), competed in ultra endurance canoeing marathons and spent a fair bit of time in the Himalayas soaking up the mountains. Adventure is notContinue reading “Interview with Sean Conway – Next in line to attempt the G.W.R for the fastest cycle around the world.”

Interview with Tom Allen – Global Cyclist

1.What are your emotional motives behind your adventures? Mostly I go on adventures to satisfy my own curiosity. But what I’m curious about has changed since I started. On my first trip I was naive and idealistic, so everything was interesting and new and it broke my preconceptions. As time went on I became curiousContinue reading “Interview with Tom Allen – Global Cyclist”

Interview with Fearghal O’Nuallain – Irish Adventurer

Geographer | Adventurer | Circumnavigator Fearghal is busy man, and not a guy to do things by half. For his university thesis he walked across Rwanda, then circumnavigated the globe by bike. For once, let me be bias, this guy is Irish, therefore he has won me over before I asked him the very first question.Continue reading “Interview with Fearghal O’Nuallain – Irish Adventurer”

Review: “It’s Not About the Bike”

“I want to die at a hundred years old screaming down an alpine descent on a bicycle at 75mph.” This is how it begins, with his end. This exhilarating pace doesnt waver an inch throughout this pumping novel. Lance Armstrong’s, “It’s not about the bike” tracks the cyclists life before he finally climaxed winning theContinue reading “Review: “It’s Not About the Bike””