Our Team
Joe
Director & co-founder - Product & route design, team management & sales and marketing.
It all started in 1990 when I put together a ride from Warsaw in Poland back to London in the UK via Germany and France to raise money for the charity Marie Curie Cancer Care, it was this 1,200 mile ride that created the recipe and unending enthusiasm to make life about travel, adventure and cycling. This quickly led me into my first really remote ride in 1992 when I first experienced cycling in the Himalayas on the 840 mile ride from Rawalpindi in Pakistan to Kashgar in China on the KKH, this established my never ending love for the big mountain ranges of the world and traveling in a self sufficient way.
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Laura.
Director & co-founder - Head of Creative, Editorial, Photography and Travel.
Never happier than when exploring the world by bicycle, Laura read Classics at Cambridge University and worked as a map buyer for Stanfords Travel Bookshop before becoming a writer and photographer for Rough Guides, and then the author of Trailblazer’s guidebook ‘Himalaya by Bike’. She spent three years pedalling east and up and down from the Karakoram Highway in Pakistan to the stupa-studded mountain passes of Bhutan, usually alone and always on the lookout for food.
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Gabriel
Director - Business development and head of all things China.
Originally from London, I've spent half my life outside of the UK, and have had the privilege to live and work in China, Germany, Israel, the UK, and the US.
Travel in the 90s & 00s through China, Laos, Pakistan and the Philippines were particularly memorable, with every journey providing the experience of moving through cultures as well as landscapes.
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Kinley
Director for Bhutan and sales and distribution across the Himalayas.
I started my journey attending school in Kalimpong and Darjeeling in the beautiful hill stations of India. I then attended university also in India in Shillong and went onto study further in Austria for a degree in tourism management and hospitality.
After some time spent abroad including in the UK I returned to my beautiful homeland of Bhutan and set up a travel company specialising in adventure tourism with my Nepalese business partner called Dharma Adventure. We run tours on foot, on bicycles and on motorbikes and have a fleet of KTM adventure bikes which we travel as far afield as Mongolia on.
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Capt Raaj (Retd)
Director for India specialising in logistics.
Since hanging up my boots in the Indian Army some 18 years ago where amongst many things I was a qualified skiing & mountaineering instructor and multi-topography skilled explorer. I have since been designing and organising motorcycle and 4x4 on and off-road trips across India, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. In 1997 I organised the first Indian motorcycle tour through Ladakh.
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Sean
Head of support team management and cycling journalist.
From couch potato to experienced event crew it's been quite a journey - back in 2011 an unfit chap decided it was time to put that right, and having cycled extensively as a youth that seemed the way back. From being lucky enough to be picked for the Cycling Plus magazine reader team in 2012 and the wealth of experience that brought to go on to write as a freelance journalist for most of the UK's major cycling publications, working on quality events seemed a natural thing to want to get involved in.
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Dave
Support Crew & Guide.
I grew up in the far north of Scotland where cycling was how you got around as a kid but it wasn’t until 1995 that I discovered the real enjoyment that cycling offers. I was always into distance challenges and had my first venture abroad in 1999 when I rode from LA to San Francisco and it has been a passion of mine since. Highlights have been working from a cycling base in the Pyrenees for a year and completing the Race Across America twice.