Photo: Courtesy of Greg Browning

In the course of 11 months, Greg Browning's bicycle survived the deserts of Uzbekistan and the mountains of Sichuan. But during the Singapore stopover of his London-to-Sydney adventure, it was stolen on Orchard Road. There may yet be a happy ending: local bike shop Treknology Bikes 3 is in touch with Mr Browning about a donation.

Touring cyclist hits S'pore roadblock

IT HAS been the adventure of a lifetime for English cyclist Greg Browning: pedalling nearly 30,000km from London to Sydney, through some of the harshest terrains on this planet.

But it was in Singapore that his journey hit its most demoralising roadblock.

'My first reaction was of disbelief. I've been in so many countries where people said I would get robbed, and then this happened in Singapore, which I was told was one of the safest places in the world,' he said.

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