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#524 - Charlie Walker - A Russian Adventure, During Wartime
Modern Wisdom
How Do You Commit to Something That Will Take Four and a Half Years to Do?
I was 21 when I decided to do it, I think. And the main thing about that journey is I didn't really prepare anything. I got a tent, an old bicycle and some pannier bags,. saddle bags to carry everything. The most sort of specialist part of the bike was just a saddle. It would have cost three or four hundred pounds new. But I got a second hand on eBay for about a hundred pounds. He wrote a letter, a handwritten letter to a saddle maker called Brooks. They make very beautiful leather saddles which fit your arse over time. So he cycled without padded shorts but wore boxer shorts and shorts or trousers. At the end they said
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