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Circumnavigation Cycling Record Smashed

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by Scott Bird | February 19, 2008
Filed in Bodyweight , video

Via The Adventure Blog : a young Scot has smashed the World Record for cycling around the globe, completing the task in just 195 days. Nice one.

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