Northern Europe by Bike. Video following Stefan Böhm’s travels from Germany through Danmark, Sweden and Norway to Cape North, then through Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. More information on his travels can be found here.

Here’s Tony Pizzo in the spring of 1920. He’s a sailor and on his way through Washington DC on a Coast-to-Coast bicycle tour: handcuffed to his machine. The handcuffs were sealed by Mayor Hylan in New York April 24th and are not to be opened until his return to that city. Found over on The Bike Show.
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Here’s Tony Pizzo in the spring of 1920. He’s a sailor and on his way through Washington DC on a Coast-to-Coast bicycle tour: handcuffed to his machine. The handcuffs were sealed by Mayor Hylan in New York April 24th and are not to be opened until his return to that city. Found over on The Bike Show.

Ian Hibell on Blue Peter in 1975 talking about his round the world bicycle tour. Thanks to Tracko for the heads up

The day after we were graduated at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., we left for New York. Thence we sailed for Liverpool on June 23, 1890. Just three years afterward, lacking twenty days, we rolled into New York on our wheels, having “put a girdle round the earth” From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen & William Lewis Sachtleben who journeyed from Constantinople to Peking. More information on the book can be found here. Thanks to Jack Thurston for the heads up.
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The day after we were graduated at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., we left for New York. Thence we sailed for Liverpool on June 23, 1890. Just three years afterward, lacking twenty days, we rolled into New York on our wheels, having “put a girdle round the earth”

From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen & William Lewis Sachtleben who journeyed from Constantinople to Peking. More information on the book can be found here. Thanks to Jack Thurston for the heads up.

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