A New Cycling Film to Inspire You to Travel by Bike

Ever since I started TDA Global Cycling 15 years ago, most people who meet me assume that cycling is my passion, and that I have made that passion into a business. But this is not the case. My passion, if I have one, is seeing the world – experiencing new things, exposing myself to different cultures, wondering what’s around the corner. I am the type who would see a hill and say, “Let’s go to the top and take a look!”

A year ago, when my 91 year old mother fell sick, I was on the train to Montreal and started wondering about my life and why I do what I do. Will I have regrets when I am old and sick in bed?

A little while before that, my friend and TDA alumnus David Houghton sent me a video produced by Alain de Botton’s ‘School of life’ called ‘The Pleasures of the Road’. So I thought, “If I wanted to make a short movie, what would it be?” An hour later, I had a script! I forwarded it to Jacob Warner (who also produced Cycling the Silk Route), and here is the result. Watch it and I hope you will enjoy it.