BikingBis.com:

The record-setting around-the-world bicycle life-journey of Heinz Stücke has come to a dead stop in Portsmouth, UK, where his bike was stolen this week.

This is not any old bike. This three-speed is the one Stücke has ridden to nearly every country on Earth since he embarked on the 335,000 journey from his home in Germany in 1962.

Stücke’s bicycle is black, painted with cities visited and a map of his journey hanging from the frame’s crossbar. It has two sets of handlebars so he can vary his riding position. (It’s shown above in this photo taken in India by Martin Atzenhofer in 1991.)

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