“It’s not a holiday,” says Lachlan Morton, an Australian professional cyclist more than one-third of his way through an epic quest to cycle around Australia.
More than a century ago, in June 1899, Arthur Richardson left Perth to ride the circumference of the Australian continent. He returned 245 days later. Richardson’s epic journey was part of a movement of long-distance cycling, known as “the Overlanders”, which flourished at the turn of the century.
