Dec 24, 2019
#54 Matt Bishop & Reece Gilkes from As Seen From The Side Car - The World is a Friendly Place!
Matt and Reece talks to us about how the world is a friendly place.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:
- Holding the Guinness world record for the longest journey by scooter and sidecar (54,962 km).
- The trials and tribulations of their amazing journey around the world.
- Relying on the kindness of strangers.
- And Reece eventually tells us the punchline of his US border story.
Matt and Reece are the first people to ever circumnavigate the globe on a scooter with a sidecar. Having never sat in a sidecar and with zero experience of mechanics or overland travel, Matt and Reece took on a 34,000-mile journey through some of the world’s toughest environments, including a -40C Siberian winter.
The journey raised money and awareness for modern slavery charities around the world. The pair are now working on a short film and book that tells the stories of the people that carried them around the planet.
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