Kane Avellano is a British
adventure
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r and a
long distance motorcycle rider. As of August 2017, Avellano holds the
Guinness World Record
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as the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle.
Biography
Avellano was born in Spain and was brought up in
South Shields
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by his mother, Louise Byers. He went to
Harton Technology College
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In 2006, Ofsted rate ...
and graduated from
Newcastle University
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in 2015 after completing a degree in
computer science
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.
Riding
Avellano first started riding in the beginning of 2015 and completed his first long distance trip around Europe that year.
Without a real plan, he rode for on his
Triumph Bonneville
The Triumph Bonneville is a standard motorcycle featuring a parallel-twin four-stroke engine and manufactured in three generations over three separate production runs.
The first two generations, by the defunct Triumph Engineering in Meriden, Wes ...
through France, Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland and Belgium.
Record-breaking trip
In May 2016, Avellano set out on a longer trip in an attempt to circumnavigate the world and become the youngest person to do so.
The total duration of the journey was 233 days, during which he covered over 28,000 milies (45,062 km), passing through 36 countries and six continents. He travelled through storms and monsoons with a number of near-death experiences.
The trip was widely covered by news outlets
and in August 2017, six months after the trip was over,
Guinness World Records
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verified the record. Avellano completed the trip alone, with no support and minimal sponsorship, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle solo (male). He completed the trip on a different Triumph bike, a 2008 865cc
Bonneville, as his first bike was stolen following his return from the trip in Europe.
References
External links
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Bonnietour - Circumnavigation record websiteKane Avellano's official website
Living people
1993 births
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