Nick's background
In 2019, Nick Sanders was awarded an MBE by King Charles for services to endurance cycling and motorbiking. He has ridden around the world eight times by motorbike, which includes a Guinness record of 19 days 4 hours for the fastest circumnavigation ever by vehicle, averaging 1002 miles a day. Nick has also ridden the length of the Americas from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego 8 times and holds the fastest time for that - 21 days.
He has never been short of adventures and has even cycled around the world twice, the second time in a Guinness record of 79 days in 1985.
Surely, that's enough for one person's lifetime?
Well, you don't know Nick! He has also cycled across the Sahara, to the source of the White Nile, the length of the Americas, across Asia and around the 4800-mile coast of Britain twice, the second time in a record 22 days, averaging 221 miles daily.
Nick's Adventure
Nick packed his bike and embarked on a new adventure and a first for the cycling world...taking on the world by e-bike.
We're proud to say that he used Route YC as his training ground before taking off on this epic 19,000-mile tour of the world, which is thought to be the very first of its kind.
Nick was one of the first to test one of our cycle routes, starting his ride from Staithes, a quick pit stop at Ravenscar, followed by the 70+ miles down the coast towards the great city of Hull, where he boarded a ferry to Rotterdam and then onto his trek across Europe.
Nick flew the Yorkshire Coast's flag throughout every continent by wearing his specially designed Route YC cycling kit and documenting his experience in his daily blogs and insta account @nicksandersofficial.
Route YC is like going around the world in 240 miles. Nick Sanders