Need Encouragement?

Before Tom and I left on this expedition we spent a lot of time preparing. We created a research website which we named the 'Biki' (based on Wikipedia software).  It contains way more information than you would ever need to leave on a bicycle expedition from choosing a bike down to the last detail, to navigating using the stars.

 We opened it up to public use in November 2007. I thought I would bring it to light again.  The link is: biki.ride-earth.org.uk .  We hope that fellow expeditioners can use the resource and also contribute.

We added a list of inspiring quotes and links to the homepage and here they are again, I think still as poinient as ever:



The (King) of the Suri Tribe - We are one, we all have ten fingers, we have two eyes, we have two ears, we have one stomach, we are all one. Remember me. - From Bruce Parry's Tribe.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains however improbable must be the truth - Sherlock Holmes from sir arthur conan doyle's the sign of four (1890)

After leaving high school, he joined the U.S. Army. He has stated he did not enjoy the experience, explaining, "I didn't like total submission to a leader other than myself." - on rapper Ice T

"The best way to predict the future, is to invent it" - A wise man.

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday night. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life...[1]

I was determined, if not to camp out, at least to have the means of camping out in my possession; for there is nothing more harassing to an easy mind than the necessity of reaching shelter by dusk, and the hospitality of a village inn is not always to be reckoned sure by those who trudge on foot. Robert Luis Stevenson, Scotland, from Travels with a Donkey, 1879

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey

some say lifes a bitch, ask that punk who dug his own ditch... - Cypress Hill (Hand on the Pump)

An Inconvenient Truth YouTube trailer

Who killed the electric car YouTube trailer

New World Disorder mountain bike videos

Pink Floyd The Wall Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb Youtube video

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Youtube video

As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well spent procures a happy death - Leonardo Da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions - Leonardo Da Vinci

Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker - Leonardo Da Vinci

Hold your colours against the wall, When they take everything away... - Hold Your Colour - Pendulum

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

Ray Mears talking of the Hadza tribes people in Africa on Bushcraft Series 1 after having spent a second period of time with them, learning about them and sharing knowledge and life- "These are some of the most precious people on earth..."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - Ghandi

I listened to Underground Resistance - "Transition" today and it reminded me why I'm doing this.

"There are people who will say you can't, but you will" - Quote from above track.

"The talent is in the choices" - Robert De Niro

"The Journey is the reward" - Lao Tzu

"Decide what you want it to say on your gravestone, then go and live it"

"Son, what is it with you? Ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care"

"A bad plan is better than no plan"

"You are not responsible for the hand you've been dealt, but its always up to you how you play it"

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself,then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would come his way." - W.H. Murray

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The map is not the territory" - Count Alfreed Korzybski