World Bicycle Touring Videos

I don't have very many videos from my trip, but I think you will find the following representative of cycling around the world. Visit YouTube.com to post a comment, see a high-resolution version and subscribe to my video blog.

Quest for happiness -- Around the world on a bicycle

New widescreen HD version with never-seen-before footage. A montage of photos and videos from Scott's 4 year, 26,000 mile bicycle tour around the world. Previously a Youtube Feature Video and specially requested for the Boston Bicycle Film Festival.

I nearly cried watching this video. Just a normal guy and look what he has achieved. ~ Ingrid K.

The long version.

Falling Uphill Chapter 25 -- Would you please visit my family.

Dennis and Scott visit Machu Picchu, Peru and bicycle through the Bolivian Alto Plano and share a meal with some indigenous people in a mud hut.

My favorite video -- Kids chasing me in Lesotho

Kids chasing me as I cycled through their villages was an everyday event in every country. Often I would stop and be mobbed by dozens of enthusiastic children. It has been very rewarding to have inspired tens of thousands of children all over the world. Once someone who saw the video, back when I thought it was quite ordinary, said to me, "How could someone who made so many children happy ever be sad?"

My second favorite video -- Mountain Pass

Riding a fully-loaded touring bicycle up a 33% grade (note: it's considered unsafe in the USA to build a road steeper than 6%) on Black Mountain, Sani Pass in Lesotho through the mud and snow. A funny video that even impresses me, and I did it. It's painful to watch, yet makes me want to hop on the ol' bike again and have another adventure.

Scott riding a fully-loaded touring bike

This short video is the only footage I have of me riding a fully-loaded touring bike on my world tour, though there were certainly a lot of tourists who would lean out of their car windows while filming me cycling down the Stuart Highway in Australia, as if I were a game animal on a safari. (I must have been the only thing they had seen for miles.) Unfortunately, not one stopped to offer to me a copy of the video or a cold drink.

Cycling Down a Treacherous Gravel Mountain Road

Riding a fully-loaded touring bike down a treacherous gravel mountain road in Lesotho.

Man Enjoying Life

One of the interesting people that I met during my ride. A Basuthu man plays a homemade instrument made out of a gas can, rebar and wire.

Going Uphill

Admiring the scenery on an average day in South Africa.

Downhill on a bike

Attempting to break 80 KPH downhill on a fully-loaded touring bicycle. It's hard to overcome the wind resistance, not to mention the fear of blowing your front tire.

What's for dinner?

Sometimes finding food while cycling around the world is challenging, not to mention batteries for your flashlight. Ah well, like they said in Boy Scouts, I'll know what it is when I put it in my mouth.

Beware this is disgusting!

Roadkill is a common phenomenon of cycle-touring. Here's an example of life and death on the bike -- a dead dog with maggots foaming out of it's mouth like rabies. No matter how many stories or photos you read about cycling around the world, it's just not the same as being there hot, thirsty and smelly.