Pat Garrod

Pat Garrod
Born

1964 (age 5152)


Chelmsford

Nationality English
Alma mater University of Southampton
Occupation Physician
Known for Long-distance motorcycling

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]

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

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
  3. 1 2 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 2014-08-11
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