Hi, this is Alan. I am happy to finnish Australia. Really tired but ready to carry on. I just want to firstly thank the support team of May, Noi,Simon, Yanyong,Mourad and Julia for all their hard work so far. Mourad and Julia will continue across the USA with me, to be joined by Ajarn John. [...]

Kangaroo Farm When you first see an Australian caravan park you can clearly see that the patrons know what people want. After a long day riding you have everything you need: hot showers, a communal kitchen, hot plates, barbecues and even the odd internet connection if you are lucky. When we started our trip through [...]

Alan has started the Australian leg with no sleep (too much Singha beer in Singapore!) and far too late because the support team forgot to pick up Alan at the airport. Nevertheless Alan was determined to make up the kilos. The route starts in Perth riding along the Great Eastern Highway through the Nullarbor desert [...]

FLYING TONIGHT TO PERTH AND WILL START AT 7-7.30AM TOMORROW FROM PERTH AIRPORT. SUPPORT TEAM AHEAD OF ME AND APPARENTLY ENJOYING A QUAFF OR TWO OF THE LOCAL BREW. I’M STARTING TO REALLY LIKE WATER. SEE YOU THERE MR GEDDES, I HOPE! ALAN

A 7 am start and five hours later Alan and the team stopped for the regular pit stop. Thailand has so many wonderful food stalls especially on the motorway, serving up tasty treats such as spicy omelets and Frog Pad Ka Pow (honestly). Unlike road stops in Europe, which are typically large, concrete, bland, industrious [...]

440 Km in 24 Hours! Alan’s first day set off with a dramatic start at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. Swarmed by camera crews and press Alan was shuffled from spot to spot doing interviews after interviews with the local pap. One would think there was a celebrity doing the challenge  and not a sports [...]

Alan set off today at 5:30pm thai time. we are on the motorway and have just completed 36 kms in one hour. check out our video page for some live footage of the start. more pictures to come soon.

Today we received a wonderful message of support that really summed up why this event is important to Alan and the Thai community. We really love to here support like this from anyone, and will endeavor to post fan messages when we can. Once again Thanks to everybody who has lent a hand to this [...]

Alan Bate looks a little weary as he walks into Starbucks at Central World Plaza. But that’s to be expected as this yellow-shirted Brit is suffering from “bike-lag”, the result of having spent 29 hours and 15 minutes in the saddle pedalling from Phuket to Bangkok. Yet he’s managing to sit and walk normally, although [...]

Press Release: Alan Bate World Cycling Record On the 31/03/10, British professional racing cyclist Alan Bate will begin a dramatic attempt to sensationally lower the Round the World Cycling Record to just 99 days. This punishing schedule has been widely ridiculed as “impossible”. Mark Beaumont set a fantastic Guinness record of 195 days for the [...]