Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman have completed their 20,000 mile oddesy from London to New York on BMW R1150GS bikes [news.bbc.co.uk] [news.yahoo.com] [story.news.yahoo.com] – and a book and documentary will be forthcoming this autumn.

I think it’s great. I don’t think it’s stupendous, but I think it’ll provide some great, positive media coverage of biking.

What I do think is stupendous is the upcoming launch of a friend and former colleague of mine – Cynthia Milton, a former techwriter for Sun Microsystems Volume Systems group – in her bid to get quite seriously around the world on her ancient-but-overhauled R80G/S [groups.yahoo.com] [cynthiamilton.me.uk]

She sets off, end-of-this-month…