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Ride Across Dangerous Countries and Survive
By John Cantlie on 21/04/2010 16:28:46
When the call of adventure draws you somewhere you shouldn’t go, a war-torn Arab state perhaps, don’t worry. It’s never as bad as you think
and shouts of “inshallah” and they’ll love you for it. In Mexico the same roadblocks control the flow of cocaine from Columbia into the USA. Ask to take their picture and they’ll strike a pose with their AR15s. Ironically, you can buy 90% pure 10g bags
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Pikes Peak Blog
By John Cantlie on 17/07/2009 16:27:44
Early starts and first runs
Pikes Peak. 12.4 miles, 156 corners, starts at 9,000ft and finishes at a wheezing 14,400ft. The world’s fastest, most dangerous hill climb has been running for 87 years, twisting its way up into the Rocky mountains behind Colorado Springs, USA
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Best Biking Summer Holiday... America
By John Cantlie on 21/10/2010 11:40:15
Best-ever biking summer holiday across America so you can get some ideas for your own. You don’t have to spend thousands of pounds or be away from work for long
AMERICAName: John CantlieBike: Honda GoldwingMiles covered: 14,955Total cost: £2,400Pros: Sense of total freedomCons: CostAt precisely 3.33am just 20 miles out of Jacksonville, I sat bolt upright, slammed on the brakes at 80mph and swerved to avoid
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Altitude Sickness - Tackling Pikes Peak
By John Cantlie on 29/06/2010 15:27:47
There is a race twelve miles long, with 156 flat-out bends on a mix of tarmac and dirt. on any one of those corners, running off the track means plunging over a cliff and hitting rocks. We tackle the legendary Pikes Peak hillclimb
the place some 20 years ago. Winding impossibly up the side of a mountain just outside Colorado Springs in Colorado USA, the race is 87 years old and has claimed countless lives since Lieutenant Zebulon Pike first setfoot on the 14,110ft summit. The first
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Yanks
By John Cantlie on 26/11/2010 14:53:27
There are some 12,000 American military personnel stationed in the UK. Every year, they remember their fallen comrades by taking to the streets on their Hogs. This year, we tagged along for the ride
,” says F-15 pilot Dave Pryor from New Mexico as we chat through mouthfuls of burger meat flown in especially from the USA. Everything, from the patties to their riding gear to their bikes, is flown in from back home. “It’s temperate, doesn’t get too hot
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