The Trip

London to John O’Groats… via Lands’ End

With a 2017 departure firmly set for the world’s first ever circumnavigation of the globe on a scooter and sidecar and planning having been well in motion for a over a year, we decided that we would need some sort of practice before hand. Obviously, with Reece being as street wise as Alan...

A scooter, a sidecar and a journey to help end slavery

There are currently 45.8 million people living in modern day slavery. That’s over double the amount of people that were enslaved at the peak of the transatlantic slave trade and it’s more than the population of Ireland and Australia combined. Everyone thinks of slavery as...

Why circumnavigate the globe on a scooter with a sidecar?

Welcome to the very first As Seen From The Sidecar blog. It’s now been over a year since we began planning the first ever circumnavigation of the globe on a scooter with a sidecar and we are well on our way to achieving a 2017 departure. The expedition will see Matt Bishop and Reece...