Solo bikepacking around the world
Why ride your bike solo 34,000km+ around the world? Boru presses pause on his day to day life in order to fulfil his desire to explore new landscapes and cultures by bike. But most importantly to continue processing a past depression that dominated his life for many years. He is doing this to raise money and awareness for Mental Health through MIND (https://www.mind.org.uk).
A couple of times a year, we give our R&D prototyping department a project with one goal in mind: to have fun and experiment; we call it R&D Kitchen. This project started with the idea of slow bike packing.
Most projects start with a technical brief. This one started with a jumble sale in the Tailfin workshop. Did you catch the finished result at Bespoked London this year? Here’s the story of how it actually got made – we
We spoke to Gus Burrell, Curve Cycling's Expedition Guru, about fence-fixing, field repairs, and riding through Mongolia on a bike called Kevin of Steel.
