RECORD BROKEN: 46705 miles

Two bikers have just become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the world 

If you’ve got a keen interest in adventure, and you like to know what sort of brilliant stuff cool folks are getting up to, then you’ll likely already be familiar with Suzuki V-Strom-riding explorers Lavi Scholl and Ollie Gamblin.

Over the past couple of years on the road Lavi and Ollie have been documenting the trials and tribulations of their adventure and sharing it with an ever-growing following on YouTube and social media. 

Setting off from the iconic Ace Cafe on a Suzuki V-Strom 1050XT, the pair visited 39 countries and racked up a whopping 46,705 miles in just 589 days – and made it back with an average age of just 33 years and 247 days, which made them the youngest pair to ever circumnavigate the world. Fair play. 

Leaving London and quickly passing through France and Spain, they hopped on the ferry to Africa and got stuck into two months of exploring Morocco, Mauritania, and Senegal. Then it was into the Sahara with the sat-nav set for Dakar in Senegal where they shipped the bikes over to South America. 

Reunited with their bike in Rio de Janeiro, they went south to Ushuaia in Argentina before turning round to head through Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Then they packed the bike on to a plane again to avoid the Darien Gap and rode right through the USA and up into Canada. 

They needed another flight to get over to Seoul in South Korea, before jumping on a boat to get to Vladivostok with an open expanse of land waiting for them out west. A ‘short’ hop, skip, and a jump across Mongolia, the ’Stans, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey and the pair were back in Europe with their sights set on home 20 months after departure and with their passports thoroughly filled. 

Inspiring stuff, right? Now they’re looking for some adventure a little closer to home – having just bought a couple of Suzuki Van Van’s to get stuck into the UK stretch of the Trans European Trail.