Recordbreaking solo motorcycle ride In 2019, Jack Groves (LH 13) bought a secondhand motorcycle, a Royal Enfield Himalayan, and set off on a journey – with a mission to break the record for the youngest person to circumnavigate the world by motorbike. Arriving back in the UK, in June this year, almost two years later, he has achieved his goal and we are enormously grateful that he has taken the time to share his inspiring story…
By Jack Groves (LH 13) Crikey, where to start!? Turns out that summing up two years of one’s life in a few hundred words is no easy task. Therefore, I will stop wasting words and get straight into it. My journey started in July 2019, and finished in June 2021, at home in Hertfordshire, and took me through 30 countries and over 35,000 miles. Heading southeast for the first six months, I had the pleasure of crashes, breakdowns and extreme altitude in Central Asia and Tibet, swiftly followed by the worst bushfires and heatwave ever recorded in Australia. Clearly blissfully unaware of the bad omens, I then decided to fly the bike on from Sydney to Santiago, Chile, in January 2020; just as news of a global pandemic began to hit the headlines!
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