Henry Spickler rides around the world!

[rusty1]

...here's a link to a guy from my hometown who rode a bike around the world in 1901....check it out...
http://yellowbrickjourney.blogspot.com/ ... world.html

 

[wheelbender6]

Wow. i wonder if anybody has copies of the letters he wrote home during his trip. I can't imagine anybody doing that without corporate funding.

 

[rusty1]

...he did it entirely on his own altho the local newspaper gave him a new bike as long as they got his story on the trip. If you do some more investigating, you'll see he wrote a book later on the trip entitled "around the world without a cent" as he left home without a cent. His expences were 5-10 cents per day!
His book has been reprinted at least once and is available thru Amazon, etc.