There are plenty of legendary world motorcycle trips being completed by people to make multiple books and films over the next few years, but this one we just had to share. One intrepid traveller is making his way from Sydney to London on a postal bike.

Currently somewhere between India and the rest of the Middle East, Nathan Millward is travelling with a used postie bike to get from Australia back to his native England, with a 105cc engine and an “80kmh flat-out-downhill, wind-behind-us top speed”.

Nathan has christened his trustie little postal bike “Dot” and says there are some significant advantages to this kind of vehicle. For a start, it’s extremely fuel efficient, and secondly it’s simple mechanics mean if he can’t fix it, someone nearby usually can.

As Nathan says: “What’s more proper than a bike giving all it’s got, being tested to its limit every day and yet still going fantastically strong?” He says that if Dot can’t get him home, nothing can. Read more on the Sydney Morning Herald.

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