"Journey to the Centre of the Earth" - by Richard and Nicholas Crane.
Angel Garcia Long Valley, NJ
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nic Henderson <nic.henderson@btinternet.com> Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [CR] Two British guys To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Hi Michael and list, that would be the Crane cousins, they went to extremes to lighten their bike such as chopping half of ther Campagnolo downtube lever off!! (Alf Engers would be proud of them) and not using a front changer (they would just kick the chain over!) I think Gerald O'Donovan made their bikes. They wrote a book about their adventure. Nic Henderson Croesyceiliog UK
Michael Thompson wrote:- It was 102F here yesterday, set a record. Does anyone remember a couple of British guys, they may have been brothers, who cycled to the center of the earth, which is somewhere out in the middle of China. They had someone, may have been Raleigh build them two 753 Reynolds frames. The two set off with really minimal equipment, and did this. I then later read where they cycled the Rift Valley of Africa, with junker bikes they bought down there. I kept the magazines that had the storys, but have long since lost them. Would like to research these boys, now may be old boys, any info would help.
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