LOCHGELLY Centre is delighted to announce that author and adventurer, Mark Beaumont, is to give a talk this month on his cycling

The Man who Cycled the Americas and the World, who has rowed the Arctic and survived the Atlantic is making a slightly safer trip to Fife!

He will be at the Centre on Wednesday November 30 when he will give an insight into his trips on two wheels.

To qualify for the Guinness world record, Beaumont was required to travel an 18,000-mile route that passes through two approximately antipodal points. The route began and ended in Paris, France, riding through 20 countries across Europe, the Middle East, India, Asia, Australasia and North America.

The bicycle used for the attempt was a Koga-Miyata with a Rohloff internal gearing hub, which consumed the spokes yet was used to build a new wheel, that held up. The bike was loaded with 66 pounds of equipment such as tools, cameras and other equipment to support him during the journey. Beaumont endured many hardships during his voyage. In Lafayette, Louisiana he was involved in a collision with a car and robbed later the same day, and elsewhere struggled with illnesses such as dysentery.

As a result of breaking the World Record, Mark Beaumont raised £18,000 for charity.