Pat Garrod

Pat Garrod (b. Chelmsford 1964[1]) is a British physician and long distance motorcyclist. He and his wife Vanessa Lewis undertook a 100,000-mile (160,000 km) round-the-world ride on a 1991 BMW R100GS,[2][3][4] between 1998 and October, 2002.[5]

Pat Garrod
Born1964 (age 55–56)
Chelmsford
NationalityEnglish
Alma materUniversity of Southampton
OccupationPhysician
Known forLong-distance motorcycling

His 2010 book Bearback — The World Overland describing the 4-year journey was called as a "damned good story" by Overland magazine,[6] and evidence of improving quality in self-published overland adventure books.[7]

After the circumnavigation, Garrod and Lewis crossed Africa twice more by motorcycle.[3] One north-to-south traversal in 2006 was more than 20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi) long;[8] Garrod's travel log records a total of over 65,000 miles (105,000 km) in Africa alone.[9]

Bibliography
  • Garrod, Pat (2010), Bearback — The World Overland, Troubador Press, ISBN 9781848765146
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References
  1. "Epic bike journey chronicled in book", Chelmsford Daily News, 5 January 2011
  2. Michael Traynor (c. 2010), Reviews of motorcycle travel books and other media, archived from the original on 6 December 2013
  3. Dan Baker (January 2013), "Book Review: Bearback by Pat Garrod", Essential Travel, Thomas Cook Group
  4. "Class notes" (PDF), Hartley News, University of Southampton, p. 24, Spring 2011
  5. Garrod 2010, page 511
  6. Paddy Tyson, "'Bearback. The world overland' by Dr Pat Garrod", Overland
  7. Paul H. Smith (25 March 2014), Bearback, ADV Moto dualsport news
  8. Garrod 2010, page 513
  9. Pat Garrod, "Our African motorcycle routes", The World Overland website, retrieved 11 August 2014
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