Originally posted by Inkwolf
I believe the first guy to ride a bike around the world was on a penny farthing. He wrote a book, too....I can't remember the name and title off the top of my head, though.
Okay, I remember now. It was 'Around the world on a bicycle' by Thomas Stevens. You can download Volume 1--San Francisco to Tehran-- free at the Gutenberg site, here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/cgi...org/gutenberg/