Episode 175: Megan Young
Megan Young chats all things ultracycling, bikepacking in Dorset and what it’s like to spend 3 months cycling across the Andes.
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Cycling the Sahara: 1,500km of Headwind, Sandstorms and Survival
Chris Petermnn has been cycling across the world for four years. When he set out to cross the Sahara on the final leg of his Africa circumnavigation, he was craving one silence. After months of never being alone in West Africa, the desert felt like it might finally offer him some peace. Unfortunately, what he
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Episode 174: Helen Watson
Helen Watson cycled 15,000km from Scotland to China along the Silk Road as her honeymoon. Months later the places she’d ridden through were impacted by the Arab Spring. She shares her story on the pod and discusses her book Tea and Grit: A Bicycle Journey Along the Silk Road.
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Episode 173: Leonie Katekar
Leonie Katekar was 56 years old when she set off solo from Guatemala to cycle 12,000 kilometres to the tip of South America, with no prior solo travel experience, a bike named after her dog, and a question she needed answered: what would you do if you were not afraid? I got to sit across from her at her home in the Victorian Alps and hear the whole story — the disasters, the desert storms, the moments of pure revelation, and what happens when the adventure changes not just you, but everyone around you.
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Cycling Through Thailand: First Timer, Loaded Bike, No Experience. Ellie Ormerod & Olly Hargreaves
If you’re planning to cycle Southeast Asia, or just want to hear what it’s actually like, this one’s for you.Olly Hargreaves is back with an update and this time he’s sharing how his girlfriend Ellie has decided to give bikepacking a go.Olly rode to Thailand from the UK and Ellie’s longest ride prior to this,
Episode 172: Javier Carrasco
Javi Carrasco rode from Austria to Australia on a bike rescued from a dumpster. Over 20,000 kilometres, 19 countries, and one Tibetan Plateau at minus 20 degrees later, he rolled into Canberra and sat down with me in the sunshine to talk about all of it.
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Cycling Post-Adventure Blues: The Side of Adventure We Don’t Show
In this solo episode, I’m talking about post-adventure blues. The experience of coming home after a big journey and finding it so much harder than you ever expected. It’s a theme that has come up again and again across three years of conversations on this show, and one I’ve been deliberately exploring with guests for
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Episode 171: Claire Stevens
Claire Stevens is a surgeon and ultra cyclist who rides for the experience of pure presence in wild places.
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Episode 170: Luke Grenfell-Shaw
After being diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer, Luke Grenfell Shaw rode a tandem bike from the UK to China with 800 people joining him for the ride.
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Cycling Ireland to Everest Base Camp: 40 Days In
Daragh Cronin is 40 days into his solo cycling expedition from Ireland to Everest Base Camp, and I sent him four questions via Instagram to find out how it’s actually going.He talks about the send-off from Cork that genuinely blew his mind, how it compared to the low-key departure for his West Africa ride, and
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