This 2 minute short was made for Continental Tyres, the UK distribution of which is Cambrian Tyres in Aberystwyth. Cambrian have supported all of my journeys from the very beginning. I’ve ridden Continental Tyres in all of my riding from the inception of Road Attack 1’s in ‘Parallel World’ to its evolution with the Road Attack 2 brand released in time for my ‘Anatomy of an Adventurer’ project in 2010.
It’s true that I was able to get 8000 miles out of the Road Attack 1 rear tyre during my Parallel World journey, and that included some impressively gritty terrain. As part of my road test for Conti’s Road Attack 1’s, I rode them across the Nubian Desert in Northern Sudan. This region did not have a road, just a deep layer of sand that extended down to a harder clay base. Temperatures reached 50 degrees centigrade after midday, later cooling to near freezing at night. Further south I rode 500 kms along the Trans African Highway across Northern Kenya, a route that was amongst the worse I have ever encountered. Populated by isolated settlements within 100 miles of the Somalian border, there was the ever present risk of banditry and no way to escape on a road surface that was capable of breaking the bike.
