Long before ultra-endurance sport became a global spectacle, crossing the world on two wheels was the domain of the odd and the dreamer. Record keepers had been tracking efforts at this achievement for decades, and the bar kept moving as riders pushed further into the unknown with little more than paper maps, panniers and persistence. A young man from rural Fife, a man who had spent his childhood cycling throughout Scotland for enjoyment, stepped into that bloodline in the summer of 2007. What came next would see him become one of the defining figures in endurance riding and rewrite what people thought was physically feasible on a bicycle.
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