London-to-Sydney Touring cyclist hits S'pore roadblock

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.

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.

Greg said that his first reaction was of disbelief. He have been in so many countries where people said that he would get robbed, but then this happened in Singapore, which he was being told that this is one of the safest places in the world.

There may yet be a happy ending as local bike shop Treknology Bikes 3 is in touch with Mr Browning about a donation.