When JPMorgan Chase's Sedef Imer finishes her working day at the London office at the end of July, she won't be taking the tube home. Instead she's setting off to Sydney, Australia. Nothing odd in that one might think, but how about if that trip was being made on a recumbent bike (known by aficionados as "a bent").
"When I mentioned the trip to friends, their reply was 'so you're going to cycle to Heathrow airport, jump on a plane to Australia, and cycle from the airport to the centre of Sydney'," says Imer. But Imer and her partner Nicolei Zuraw are making the 25,000km ride to Sydney on just four wheels between them, passing through three continents, 15 countries and 11 time zones.
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