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Man bikes around the world on a Boris bike

A biking mad entrepreneur made a round the world cycling trip – on a Boris bike. Chris Astil-Smith, 24, rented the Boris bike in London and cycled around seven cities including New Delhi, Las Vegas and Paris – and landed himself a £300 late return fine. For three weeks in January Chris cycled around five […]

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2017-03-16 16:01
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Chris Astil-Smith, 24 (L) with his The Boris bike in Dubai. See National copy NNBIKE: A biking mad entrepreneur made a round the world cycling trip - on a Boris bike. Chris Astil-Smith, 24, rented the Boris bike and cycled around seven cities including New Delhi, Las Vegas and Paris. For three weeks in January Chris cycled around five countries and spent two days in each city capturing the trip with friend and videographer Alex Tyrwhitt. He faced security trouble in New York as well as Delhi where the entrepreneur was forced to bribe security £10 at the Taj Mahal to cycle inside.

Chris Astil-Smith, 24 (L) with his The Boris bike in Dubai. See National copy NNBIKE: A biking mad entrepreneur made a round the world cycling trip - on a Boris bike. Chris Astil-Smith, 24, rented the Boris bike and cycled around seven cities including New Delhi, Las Vegas and Paris. For three weeks in January Chris cycled around five countries and spent two days in each city capturing the trip with friend and videographer Alex Tyrwhitt. He faced security trouble in New York as well as Delhi where the entrepreneur was forced to bribe security £10 at the Taj Mahal to cycle inside.

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A biking mad entrepreneur made a round the world cycling trip – on a Boris bike.

Chris Astil-Smith, 24, rented the Boris bike in London and cycled around seven cities including New Delhi, Las Vegas and Paris – and landed himself a £300 late return fine.

For three weeks in January Chris cycled around five countries and spent two days in each city capturing the trip with friend and videographer Alex Tyrwhitt.


He faced security trouble in New York as well as Delhi where the entrepreneur was forced to bribe security £10 at the Taj Mahal to cycle inside.

He said: “We got all the way to the Taj, but they wouldn’t let us in with the bike because of the high security.

“So we found some land around the back and ended up bribing the security guards the equivalent of £10 to let us go in and cycle around.

“In Dubai they pulled us in for questioning about the bike as they were a bit suspicious.

“In the end they let us through because we convinced them it was just our normal bike and we wanted to cycle around the city.

“Bearing in mind no one cycles in Dubai haha.

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“Security in NYC was also quite tight, and they asked a lot of questions about the bike but surprisingly in Heathrow we went straight on through with it.”

He added: “I left on the 4th January, came back on the 22nd.

“We went to New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Rome, Paris, Dubai and New Delhi and the Taj in India.

“The trip was awesome. It was really intense and full on.

“We were only in each place for like two days.

“The bikes really heavy and getting from anywhere was an adventure, especially the airport to our accommodation.

“USA wasn’t too bad as they have big cars but Rome and Paris needed a little more strategy.”


When Chris returned home in Acton, west London on January 22 the video went online to publicise his swim across the Channel later this year in support of the Dreams Come True Charity.

But Boris Bike owner Santander quickly fined the traveller £300 when he returned the bike to its spot in Westminster.

Chris said: “They take a £300 fine out of the account if you don’t dock the bike back after 48 hours.

“They assume the bike is lost or stolen so that’s the max fine we got.

“They should definitely donate that £300 back to the swim though for all the exposure.

“They did write to me on Twitter, they said they loved the video.”


This summer he will be swimming the channel and has so far raised over £6,000 for the charity which supports terminally ill children.

He said: “I’ve seen people do amazing things for charities but they never get the exposure they deserve.

“I wanted to create a funny, shareable video that links to a great cause.

“Dreams Come True is one of the smallest UK charities and never gets any exposure because they don’t put donations into advertisements which I really liked.

“I wanted to create something that would raise their profile also.”

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