Round The World On Bicycles (1929)

[GuyBoden]

"Round the world on bicycles. Mr J.T.R. Lennie and Dr. J.H. Bell set off on adventurous journey, they hope to make the trip in 6 years. Liverpool. Merseyside."

 

[HLaB]

"Round the world on bicycles. Mr J.T.R. Lennie and Dr. J.H. Bell set off on adventurous journey, they hope to make the trip in 6 years. Liverpool. Merseyside."

@mark Beaumont eat your hat out

 

[hoopdriver]

I’ve got books by Thomas Stevens, an American who did a round the world ride on a pennyfarthing in the 1880s and a book by John Foster Fraser who did it on a standard “safety” bicycle in 1896. Both are rollicking reads.

I personally rode around the world in under ten seconds while on assignment at the South Pole during the Antarctic summer of 2000. I pedalled a bicycle around the pole itself, crossing every line of longitude “en route” in my sub ten second circumnavigation. Weirdly enough the record keepers don’t recognise my “effort”!

 

[Blue Hills]

Anyone know what happened to them?

Can't help but be a bit suspicious.

Not exactly a lot of luggage.

6 years?

Married?

 

[mjr]

I’ve got books by Thomas Stevens, an American who did a round the world ride on a pennyfarthing in the 1880s and a book by John Foster Fraser who did it on a standard “safety” bicycle in 1896. Both are rollicking reads.

Thomas Stevens's book is available from Project Gutenburg, if anyone wants to read it. He seems a bit of a fussy eater!

 

[mjr]

And John Foster Fraser's is at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/cu31924023252707