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Cycle Touring Forum

14.00 - 15.30 SATURDAY 21 MARCH - FREE

PRESENTED BY ADVENTURER LEON MCCARRON
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UK CYCLE TOURING FESTIVAL

FREE EVENT - ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSED - just a few places left

We have 3 tickets left at (12:30pm Fri), please text Festival PR Lissa Cook if you'd like to go on the guest list
REGISTERED ONLINE? Please pick up tickets on the door at the Showroom Café as the event starts.
ON THE DAY TICKETS: Any remaining tickets will be available on the door on a first come, first served basis.

Do you dream of cycling from Land's End To John O'Groats or even round the world?  Adventurer and filmmaker Leon McCarron will host a panel of experienced, two-wheeled travellers to answer all your questions including:

• Laura and Tim Moss left London on August 18th 2013 and cycled 13,054 miles across Europe, the Middle East, India, Korea, Japan, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the United States arriving home on December 13th 2014.  Laura has just launched the new UK Cycle Touring Festival.  Read more about their adventures at thenextchallenge.org
• Hannah and Patrick Maia-Taylor - Filmmaker Hannah at Maia Media loves cycling so much that she and her husband Patrick mountain biked 2,500 miles from New Mexico to Canda for their honeymoon.  Her film Megamoon is screening at ShAFF.
• Ed Shoote - Ed is just back from a cycle ride from the UK to Kazakhstan then Nepal and India.  Find out more about Ed at his popular award winning travel and photography based blog called welovemountains.net

Like this?  Tickets now on sale for the first ever UK Cycle Touring Festival (1-3 May at Waddow Hall, Clitheroe, Lancashire)
 

ABOUT LEON MCCARRON

Leon McCarron is a Northern Irish adventurer, filmmaker, writer and motivational speaker. We're screening Leon's latest film, Karun, at ShAFF this year.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and specializes in long distance, human-powered expeditions. In Winter 2011-2012 Leon walked 3000 miles across China, filming for a National Geographic TV show along the way. The journey took him six months; walking a marathon a day for six days a week and carrying a 30kg pack. Two days after returning home, Leon was honoured to carry the Olympic Flame along a section of the Northern Irish coast as part of the London 2012 relay. 

Previous to this he rode a bicycle 14,000 miles from New York to Hong Kong, documented in a television show which is currently airing in over 60 countries worldwide. At the end of 2012 he trekked 1000 miles through the Empty Quarter desert in Oman, following in the footsteps of the late British explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger. A feature length film entitled ‘Into The Empty Quarter’ was premiered at the Royal Geographical Society in London in Autumn 2013.

Leon is a passionate storyteller and a firm believer in the power of an adventurous mindset as a key element of fulfillment and success. He brings the audience on a journey with him; along the frozen banks of the Yellow River on foot, over the high passes of the Rocky Mountains by bike, or through the searing heat of the Empty Quarter desert with a 300kg cart in tow. Leon relates the lessons he has learned from these expeditions to everyday, real-life challenges. Adventure is not just trekking across China or navigating through a subzero blizzard – adventure is all around us, everyday, and in his talks Leon explains the benefits of recognising and embracing this concept.