Electric Bike Video: The eBike Cycle Tourists
Haibike - The Electric Bike Tourists
"Basically when I met Gary, or married Gary 6-years ago, he said, "Stick with me, baby, and we'll go places."
27,000 kilometers and 14 countries later, Gary has still kept that promise.
Rachel, who was a school teacher before their trek, suffered from a secondary blood infection from salmonella; in turn, that caused her to have acute reactive arthritis. "I felt like somebody had severed my arms and legs and just left me there to die."
So, what do you say when you're in physical pain and your husband asks you to sell all of your possessions and tour the world on an electric bike?
"Initially when I said, "Yes," I physically didn't think I would be capable, but I said, "Yes," anyway...it was just amazing how I started to feel fitter just from the bit of cycling I did and four months later during the trip, I was getting stronger every day just by cycling...there were no more painkillers, there was just exercise."
"We don't miss any of our possessions that we put into the container. We have a very simple life and it's very easy going."
Currently, Gary and Rachel Corbett have the longest e-bike distance record at 25,500km and 18-months on the road.
"...our future plans are to keep cycling. We just feel so fit and vital at the moment...eBikes really are a vehicle for people to embrace life."
Video Synopsis:
Over the past 15 months the husband and wife team of Australians Gary and Rachel Corbett - better known within the e-bike industry as the E-Bike Cycle Tourists - have cycled their Haibike xDuro Trekking e-bikes more than 27,000 kilometres through 14 countries throughout mainland Europe, the UK and Ireland.
During their amazing e-bike journey the E-Bike Cycle Tourists not only set a new world e-bike long distance record, but showed conclusively why e-bikes are the perfect new-age form of transport for anyone of any age to explore the world.
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