On Friday, he rested. Today, he rides on.
And he’ll continue to ride on — another 11,000 miles.
About two-thirds of the way through a round-the-world bike ride, Avijit Chakraborty stopped in Vancouver, staying at the Guru Ram Dass Sikh Community Temple, where he said he “got breakfast, lunch, dinner and good sleep.”
“He’s very pleased to come here,” said Amarjit Singh, the temple’s head priest.
Chakraborty, 38, left his native Kolkata, India, in October 2009, to raise awareness for sustainable development by visiting schools around the world. While he’s at it, he hopes to break the Guinness Book of World Records mark that eluded him the last time around.
Yes, he’s done this before.
From 1997 to 1999, he biked more than 37,000 miles across 54 countries over 27 months.
That was short of the current world record: In the mid-1970s, the late John Hathaway of Canada biked 39,768 miles around the world in 23 months.