Heavy traffic towards Shenzhen, Wed 25 Mar 15
Urban sprawl as we leave mainland China, Wed 25 Mar 15
Tight spaces in Guangzhou, Wed 25 Mar 15
Hitting 17,000km, Mon 23 Mar 15
Breakfast time in Guangdong, Wed 18 Mar 15
Sneaking across a half built bridge in Guangdong, Tues 17 Mar 15
Pannier problems in southern China, Sun 15 Mar 15
The last night ride, Mon 9 Mar 15
Dragon dances in southern China, Sun 8 Mar 15
Hitting 16,000km, Sun 8 Mar 15
Stilted villages along a riverbed, Guizhou, Fri 6 Mar 15
Schoolgirls help Lobby out with bike maintenance, Tues 3 Mar 15
Exploring a tunnel under construction in Guizhou, Mon 2 Mar 15
Development has hit Guiyang very, very hard, Fri 27 Feb 15
Free breakfast on the side of the road towards Guiyang, Fri 27 Feb 15
New Year chaos, firecrackers and swinging dragons, Thurs 26 Feb 15
Police escort at front and back for nighttime riding in Guizhou, Wed 25 Feb 15
Police sirens follow us into motorway tunnels, Wed 25 Feb 15
Hitting 15,000 kms, Tues 24 Feb 15
A plastic bike in Chongqing, Mon 23 Feb 15
Rest stop in a provincial backwater the size of a small European country, Fri 20 Feb 15
Visiting a temple to obtain blessings at Chinese New Year, Fri 20 Feb 15
Crossing the urban sprawl to Chongqing for Chinese New Year, Wed 18 Feb 15
Chucking prayer papers at the pass nr Kangding, Sat 14 Feb 15
Hitting 14,000km on Valentine’s Day, Sat 14 Feb 15
Kid herding yak on Tibetan Plateau, Sun 8 Feb 15
Crossing into Sichuan province with the yak, Wed 4 Feb 15
Crowd forms around us in Yushu, Tues 3 Feb 15
Tibetans walking and praying in Yushu, Tues 3 Feb 15
Crowds getting thicker at Yushu, Tues 3 Feb 15
Joining in the crowd at Yushu, Tues 3 Feb 1
Milestones at the Bayankala Pass, Sun 1 Feb 15
You can’t get much higher than this! Sun 1 Feb 15
Summiting Bayankala Pass, Sun 1 Feb 15
Reaching first pass before Bayankala, Sun 1 Feb 15
Morning of Bayankala Pass (4824m), dog attack and a fall onto ice, Sun 1 Feb 15
Getting Lobby’s bike on top of a truck, his fingers too cold to cycle, Sat 31 Jan 15
Snowfall on a solo day to Maduo, Fri 30 Jan 15
A windy 13,000 kms, Thurs 29 Jan 15
Hoping for the wind to subside, Wed 28 Jan 15
The start of some serious wind on the plateau, Wed 28 Jan 15
Vultures attacking a sheep carcass on the side of the road, Tues 27 Jan 15
Yak herding up the Tibetan plateau, Tues 27 Jan 15
Not allowed through by the Chinese TAR border control, Sat 24 Jan 15
Adding flair to the bikes before we take on the Tibetan plateau, Sat 24 Jan 15
Hitting the twelfth thousand, Mon 19 Jan 15
Leaving Xinjiang by the asbestos factory, Mon 19 Jan 15
Sleeping in a garage at the Xinjiang border, Sun 18 Jan 15
The end of the Taklamakan – climbing to altitude, Sat 17 Jan 15
An hour later at the Qiemo hostel, Wed 14 Jan 15
Arrived in Qiemo within 48 hours, Wed 14 Jan 15
Desert racing across the Taklamakan, Tues 13 Jan 15
400 kms across the Taklamakan desert, Tues 13 Jan 15
Beyond Tazhong, Tues 13 Jan 15
Reached Tazhong, Tues 13 Jan 15
300kms across the Taklamakan desert, Mon 12 Jan 15
First 100kms across the Taklamakan desert, Mon 12 Jan 15
Starting our speed record attempt across the Taklamakan, Mon 12 Jan 15
Tailed by a police car from Kuqa, Sun 11 Jan 15
Ethnic tensions in Kuqa, Sat 10 Jan 15
Nearing the end of a 220km day in the desert, Fri 9 Jan 15
Long day to Kuqa, Taklamakan northern route, Fri 9 Jan 15
A sense of scale in Xinjiang province, Wed 7 Jan 15
Early desert starts, Wed 7 Jan 15
The road to come – our route across the Taklamakan desert, Tues 6 Jan 15
Setting off east along the Taklamakan desert, Tues 6 Jan 15
Buying horses at the Kashgar market, Sun 4 Jan 15
Kashgar Sunday market, get your animals live or dead, Sun 4 Jan 15
First Chinese dancers in Kashgar, Sat 3 Jan 15
Hitting the 10,000km mark, Mon 29 Dec 14
Held up for hours at the Chinese border, Mon 29 Dec 14
Reaching the Chinese border!!! Mon 29 Dec 14
Final Central Asian breakfast with our Kyrgyz family, Mon 29 Dec 14
End of our Nura rest day, Sun 28 Dec 14
Exploring Nura on horseback, Sun 28 Dec 14
Resting up in Nura with a Kyrgyz family, Sun 28 Dec 14
Nearing Nura finally, Sat 27 Dec 14
Crouched out of the wind behind our bikes – right before things got bad, Sat 27 Dec 14
Too icy to cycle the ridge, Sat 27 Dec 14
Only at the start of our last climb out of Kyrgyzstan, Sat 27 Dec 14
Nervous about leaving for our last pass to the Chinese border, Sat 27 Dec 14
Stunning Boxing Day riding, Fri 26 Dec 14
Setting off towards the Kyrgyz border on Boxing Day
Our fifth and final Tajik pass: into Kyrgyzstan in a whiteout, Thurs 25 Dec 14
The snowstorm sets in, Thurs 25 Dec 14
Walking up our second Christmas pass as the weather closes in, 25 Dec 14
We’ve lost the Tajik border, Thurs 25 Dec 14
Cycling up to a blizzard in no-man’s-land, Christmas Day
Lobby summiting our fourth Tajik pass, Thurs 25 Dec 14
Struggling up two passes on Christmas Day to enter Kyrgyzstan
Setting off on Christmas morning to some carols!!
Christmas morning breakfast, Thurs 25 Dec 14
Stopping to get the feeling back in Lobby’s fingers, Wed 24 Dec 14
Ak-baital Pass, 4655m, Wed 24 Dec 14
Closing in on Ak-baital Pass, Wed 24 Dec 14
Arriving at the Ak-baital road maintenance hut, Tues 23 Dec 14
Struggling to keep our eyes open as we approach Ak-baital, Tues 23 Dec 14
First contact with the Chinese border, Tues 23 Dec 14
Festive bike maintenance in preparation for Ak-baital Pass (4655m), Mon 22 Dec 14
Arriving in Mamazair – deserted except for a donkey, Sun 21 Dec 14
Lobby’s thoughts as he summits his first Tajik pass (4100m), Sun 21 Dec 14
Breathing issues as we approach our second Tajik pass, Sun 21 Dec 14
A wandering man on the tundra, Sun 21 Dec 14
Leaving Alichur reunited once more, Sun 21 Dec 14
Getting the tour of Alichur waiting for Lobby, Sat 20 Dec 14
Whiteout descends, Fri 19 Dec 14
Feeling the altitude at 4000m, Fri 19 Dec 14
Start of Day 23, solo, Fri 19 Dec 14
The challenge ahead, Tues 16 Dec 14
Dirt track and under time pressure, Tues 16 Dec 14
Challenged to a bike race in the Wakhan valley, Mon 15 Dec 14
Through Ishkashim market and out of Afghanistan, Mon 15 Dec 14
Nearing the end of our Afghan adventure, Sun 14 Dec 14
Big hills and freezing streams in Afghanistan, Sun 14 Dec 14
Lobby describes our Afghan river crossings, Sat 13 Dec 14
Struggling in deep sand, Sat 13 Dec 14
Morning with the Afghan miller, Sat 13 Dec 14
Night riding in Afghanistan, Fri 12 Dec 14
Walking up the Afghan hills once again, Fri 12 Dec 14
Back to full strength on Day 16, Fri 12 Dec 14
Delayed further as the Afghan road deteriorates, Thurs 11 Dec 14
Morning cay stop, Thurs 11 Dec 14
Illness in Afghanistan, Thurs 11 Dec 14
Good night from Lobby over the border, Wed 10 Dec 14
First steps into Afghanistan, Wed 10 Dec 14
Back on track and heading into Afghanistan, Wed 10 Dec 14
Lobby is hero of the hour, Fri 5 Dec 14
The moment Nick discovers his rim is split, Fri 5 Dec 14
Lobby does sprints on our day to Khorog, Fri 5 Dec 14
The drugs highway into Europe, Thurs 4 Dec 14
Lobby describes the end of Day 8, Thurs 4 Dec 14
Hitting the ninth thousand, Thurs 4 Dec 14
Crossing an iron bridge – still the main road to China! Wed 3 Dec 14
Struggling along the dirt track on Day 7, Wed 3 Dec 14
Lobby takes a fall, Wed 3 Dec 14
Upgrade to a Tajik tractor, Wed 3 Dec 14
Summiting along the Panj, Mon 1 Dec 14
Stuck in the mud next to the Afghan border, Mon 1 Dec 14
Staying with a geography teacher along the Panj river, Sun 30 Nov 14
Getting off the mountain – first sighting of Afghanistan, Sun 30 Nov 14
At the top? Sun 30 Nov 14
Reaching the cloud line on a leg burner from Kulob, Sun 30 Nov 14
A new culinary experience, Sat 29 Nov 14
Shorts on the Pamir Highway – living the dream, Fri 28 Nov 14
The snow starts just outside Dushanbe, Thurs 27 Nov 14
The Hardest Stage Begins: Over the Pamirs to China, Thurs 27 Nov 14
Into Tajikistan! Thurs 20 Nov 14
Losing it slightly the day before the border, Wed 19 Nov 14
Enjoying the sun in the Uzbek mountains, Tues 18 Nov 14
Heading for the Tajik border, Tues 18 Nov 14
Causing a scene in Guzar, Mon 17 Nov 14
Hitting 8000km in the Uzbek desert – HALFWAY TO HONG KONG, Sun 16 Nov 14
A day of two halves, Thurs 13 Nov 14
Headwinds on the way to Bukhara, Thurs 13 Nov 14
Pushing on after sunset, Tues 11 Nov 14
Interviewed in Khiva for Uzbek National Youth Day, Sun 9 Nov 14
Police checkpoints near the Turkmen border, Sat 8 Nov 14
A police stop in the desert before Khiva, Fri 7 Nov 14
Arrived in Nukus, Fri 7 Nov 14
7000 kms from London, Wed 5 Nov 14
Desert Days with Lobby and Nick, Wed 5 Nov 14
A grim morning in the Uzbek desert, Wed 5 Nov 14
Camels in the snow, Tues 4 Nov 14
Over the border into Uzbekistan, Mon 3 Nov 14
Truck convoy in the Kazakh desert, Mon 3 Nov 14
Breakfast standards dropping in the desert, Mon 3 Nov 14
Wild horses in the Kazakh desert, Sun 2 Nov 14
A standard desert lunch, Sun 2 Nov 14
Our first Kazakh camels, Sun 2 Nov 14
Losing the plot slightly in the Kyzyl Kum desert, Sun 2 Nov 14
Central Asia ahead, Thurs 30 Oct 14
Dawn on the Caspian Sea, Thurs 30 Oct 14
Roaming MV Professor Gul, Wed 29 Oct 14
Leaving Azerbaijan, Wed 29 Oct 14
Ferry in sight, Wed 29 Oct 14
Waiting to board the ferry in Baku, Tues 28 Oct 14
Tickets bought!, Tues 28 Oct 14
Looking for tickets in Baku, Tues 28 Oct 14
Battling admin in Baku, Tues 28 Oct 14
Trying to find the Turkmenistan ferry in Baku, Fri 24 Oct 14
Completing the no tent challenge, Thurs 23 Oct 14
An Azeri soloist, Wed 22 Oct 14
Welcome to the Gobustan desert in Azerbaijan, Wed 22 Oct 14
New lengths we go for the Twitter campaign, Tues 21 Oct 14
Coming across an Azeri wedding, Mon 20 Oct 14
A cold morning near the Russian border, Mon 20 Oct 14
Lobby excited about more mountain climbs, Sun 19 Oct 14
The river through Qax (pronounced ‘Kak’), Sat 18 Oct 14
Sunshine in Azerbaijan, Sat 18 Oct 14
Through the border and into Azerbaijan, Fri 17 Oct 14
The Azeri border – good luck! Fri 17 Oct 14
Postcards from Georgia, Fri 17 Oct 14
6000 kms up, Sun 12 Oct 14
Drinking with Giorgi, the cow herder, Sat 11 Oct 14
Headwinds in the valley towards Tbilisi, Sat 11 Oct 14
Georgian castles on the Silk Road, Fri 10 Oct 14
Morning at the peak, Thurs 9 Oct 14
Above the treeline, Wed 8 Oct 14
Uphill in Georgia with hat and puppy, Wed 8 Oct 14
Wineries and hill climbing in Georgia, Tues 7 Oct 14
Route update – heading North, Mon 6 Oct 14
A last cup of Turkish cay, Sun 5 Oct 14
Kurban Bayrami Festival – slaughtering cattle, Sat 4 Oct 14
Introducing the Sumela Monastery, Fri 3 Oct 14
5000 kilometres up, Sun 28 Sept 2014
Leaving Europe for Asia, Mon 15 Sept 14
Welcome to Istanbul – you can make a difference!
Kumkapi fish festival, Istanbul, Sat 13 Sept 14
Galata Bridge at night, Istanbul, Mon 8 Sept 14
Haghia Sophia, Wed 3 Sept 14
New Mosque, Istanbul, Wed 3 Sept 14
The spice market in Istanbul, Wed 3 Sept 14
Wednesday market by Fatih Mosque, Istanbul, 3 Sept 14
Playing in Fatih Mosque courtyard, 3 Sept 14
End of the first leg – arriving in Istanbul, Mon 1 Sept 14
Approaching Istanbul in the rush hour, Mon 1 Sept 14
Early morning start for Istanbul, Mon 1 Sept 14
Dancing by the side of the road in Turkey, Sun 31 Aug 14
The fourth thousand, Sun 31 Aug 14
Windy European Turkey, Sun 31 Aug 14
Lobby describes the road to Istanbul, Fri 29 Aug 14
Will describing hill climbing, Fri 29 Aug 14
King of the Mountain, Fri 29 Aug 14
Approaching the Turkish border, Fri 29 Aug 14
Saving a horse from roadkill in Bulgaria, Sun 24 Aug 14
The third thousand, Wed 20 Aug 2014
Running out of cash in Serbia, Wed 20 Aug 2014
Popular among Serbian bakeries, Thurs 14 Aug 2014
Finding Vidic’s birthplace, Wed 13 Aug 2014
On main roads through Serbia, Wed 13 Aug 2014
… who is navigating only by compass, Tues 12 Aug 2014
A brave cyclist from China, Tues 12 Aug 2014
Sleeping apart in Budapest, Sat 9 Aug 2014
Waking up in Hungary, Sat 9 Aug 2014
Hungarian bike routes, Fri 8 Aug 2014
Hitting 200 kms outside Vienna, Mon 4 Aug 2014
Slipstreaming on our way to Vienna, Mon 4 Aug 2014
Namecard in Austrian hills, Mon 4 Aug 2014
Reaching the Danube in Austria, Sun 3 Aug 2014
Leaving Germany, Fri 1 Aug 2014
First Bavarian hill, Tues 22 July 2014
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