Around the world on two wheels
Originally posted on February 16, 2008 at 5:31 amA Scottish man has set a new world record for cycling around the planet. Mark Beaumont left Paris and returned in 195 days and 6 hours.
In spite of crossing through such lawless lands as Pakistan and Thailand on his 18,000 mile trek, it was the US that almost killed him: Beaumont was mugged in Louisiana, and hit by a car driven by a Florida bluehair.