Saturday, September 19, 2009

James is home!

James Bowthorpe arrives back in Hyde Park, London, having broken the world record for cycling around the world.
James made it back to where he started, the band shell in Hyde Park, today. He beat the record for round-the-world cycling. He is fast!

I cycled with him the last little bit from Richmond Park, but my bike imploded 1/2 mile away from the bandstand and I missed the actual moment. I showed up a few minutes later covered in bike grease and saw him drinking champagne though so it was still pretty exciting.

James Bowthorpe arrives back in Hyde Park, London, having broken the world record for cycling around the world.

5 comments:

Fugu said...

More pics!! This is great news! I hope he got his wallet back.

And it's shocking how accurate your drarwings of James have been.

Anonymous said...

Is this him?

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/09/19/circumnavigation-for-good/

Ruby Tenneco said...

yes!

Mr. Pony said...

Hurrah! Huzzah! K'plah!

Well done, James!

Fugu said...

James is making the internets!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214803/Cyclist-breaks-trans-globe-bike-record.html

via: http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/around-the-world-in-174-days/