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As we ride more than 15,000 kms, from Bali in Indonesia to London in the United Kingdom, we aim to raise $1 per kilometre to help the 1 in 6 New Zealanders who are diagnosed with blood cancer or some form of related disease every day.

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A Long Ride: One Year On

So the other night I was up playing GTA V, cruising the contours of the fictitious Los Santos when a stretch of wooded hills smacked me...

"The Deep Breath Before The Plunge": Dunkirk - London

Doubt. The belief that it can’t be done. A fundamental component in the human psyche that can hold us back from doing things beyond the...

The End of the Line: Belgium - Dunkirk

We were no strangers to the prospect of a detour, so with London within touching distance, it was no surprise that we opted for the...

Allez Les Bleus: France

Before we knew it, the Alps had been and gone. Though we still sat in their shadow, in one of the more sketchy suburbs of Grenoble, we...

Crossing the Alps: Northern Italy, Switzerland, and the French Alps

We woke up early in the campground on the shores of Lake Maggiore, the sister to Lake Como. The air off the mountains meant it was a...

Two Wheels and a Man in Slightly Less Pain: Italy

Italy for me was the most profound country to cycle through thus far, firstly because Sean and I got to retrace the steps of our 17 year...

The Big Bus Trip: Austria, Germany, and Slovenia

And so on this hot Milanese afternoon Arthur and Freddie sat down to write a sentence for sentence blog, never seen before and never to...

Peaking Behind the Iron Curtain: The Balkans

Albania was the first state we entered that had been subject to years of communist rule during the Cold War and into the early 1990s....

A Whiter Shade Of: Greece

All those years ago, when we were all young and foolish boys coming out of high school and the idea for this trip was born, I pinned...

Two Wheels and a Man in Pain: Istanbul - Greece

It was roughly 8.30am on a February morning in London when I finally decided to join The Big Bike Trip. I woke up that day at the usual...

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