Paradise - Bicycle Touring / Connecting with Community in the Wider World Around You...

When you know that you are different 


because of the passion taken in what you love to do. 

FIND some INSPIRATION.


You might just want to connect to that bicycle community, 

and go touring to see different places and meet new faces. 


It only takes a spark of hope to start with. 

BE DIFFERENT.

Inspiration, planning and a deadline, a dream with soon become a...

PARADISE. 

The world out there is truly AMAZING! 

if you don't see it right now, you haven't opened your eyes wide 

enough or tried quite hard enough to live the dreams... 

I share my HOPE to all those who dare to 

FACE their IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGES, 

to stand up to these CHALLENGES and eat your deepest fears

to live to see your own...


PARADISE.

I stepped outside into an amazing world, I didn't second guess myself, I lived to see Paradise.

 More challenging than before, the HimalayasX2012 is coming soon...

 Sichuan children together in their summer

 A lone cow walking round the river

 Meeting other souls that want to help you.

 Help when you needed it most.

 A ride of a lifetime. Away from the world that never changes, a road that always challenges you.

 Together in a new challenge and community because you went out there and tried on your own.

 Cultures, languages and people.

and Hope for tomorrow.

Supporting: IDEAS, Intestinal Disease Education & Awareness Society, Canada

Partnership: ETE, Education Through Expeditions, United Kingdom

Handy: Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook, 2nd Edition: Worldwide Cycling Route & Planning Guide

Paradise - Bicycle Touring / Connecting with Community in the Wider World Around You...

When you know that you are different 


because of the passion taken in what you love to do. 

FIND some INSPIRATION.


You might just want to connect to that bicycle community, 

and go touring to see different places and meet new faces. 


It only takes a spark of hope to start with. 

BE DIFFERENT.

Inspiration, planning and a deadline, a dream with soon become a...

PARADISE. 

The world out there is truly AMAZING! 

if you don't see it right now, you haven't opened your eyes wide 

enough or tried quite hard enough to live the dreams... 

I share my HOPE to all those who dare to 

FACE their IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGES, 

to stand up to these CHALLENGES and eat your deepest fears

to live to see your own...


PARADISE.

I stepped outside into an amazing world, I didn't second guess myself, I lived to see Paradise.

 More challenging than before, the HimalayasX2012 is coming soon...

 Sichuan children together in their summer

 A lone cow walking round the river

 Meeting other souls that want to help you.

 Help when you needed it most.

 A ride of a lifetime. Away from the world that never changes, a road that always challenges you.

 Together in a new challenge and community because you went out there and tried on your own.

 Cultures, languages and people.

and Hope for tomorrow.

Supporting: IDEAS, Intestinal Disease Education & Awareness Society, Canada

Partnership: ETE, Education Through Expeditions, United Kingdom

Handy: Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook, 2nd Edition: Worldwide Cycling Route & Planning Guide

Paradise - Bicycle Touring / Connecting with Community in the Wider World Around You...

When you know that you are different 


because of the passion taken in what you love to do. 

FIND some INSPIRATION.


You might just want to connect to that bicycle community, 

and go touring to see different places and meet new faces. 


It only takes a spark of hope to start with. 

BE DIFFERENT.

Inspiration, planning and a deadline, a dream with soon become a...

PARADISE. 

The world out there is truly AMAZING! 

if you don't see it right now, you haven't opened your eyes wide 

enough or tried quite hard enough to live the dreams... 

I share my HOPE to all those who dare to 

FACE their IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGES, 

to stand up to these CHALLENGES and eat your deepest fears

to live to see your own...


PARADISE.

I stepped outside into an amazing world, I didn't second guess myself, I lived to see Paradise.

 More challenging than before, the HimalayasX2012 is coming soon...

 Sichuan children together in their summer

 A lone cow walking round the river

 Meeting other souls that want to help you.

 Help when you needed it most.

 A ride of a lifetime. Away from the world that never changes, a road that always challenges you.

 Together in a new challenge and community because you went out there and tried on your own.

 Cultures, languages and people.

and Hope for tomorrow.

Supporting: IDEAS, Intestinal Disease Education & Awareness Society, Canada

Partnership: ETE, Education Through Expeditions, United Kingdom

Handy: Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook, 2nd Edition: Worldwide Cycling Route & Planning Guide

Paradise - Bicycle Touring / Connecting with Community in the Wider World Around You...

When you know that you are different 


because of the passion taken in what you love to do. 

FIND some INSPIRATION.


You might just want to connect to that bicycle community, 

and go touring to see different places and meet new faces. 


It only takes a spark of hope to start with. 

BE DIFFERENT.

Inspiration, planning and a deadline, a dream with soon become a...

PARADISE. 

The world out there is truly AMAZING! 

if you don't see it right now, you haven't opened your eyes wide 

enough or tried quite hard enough to live the dreams... 

I share my HOPE to all those who dare to 

FACE their IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGES, 

to stand up to these CHALLENGES and eat your deepest fears

to live to see your own...


PARADISE.

I stepped outside into an amazing world, I didn't second guess myself, I lived to see Paradise.

 More challenging than before, the HimalayasX2012 is coming soon...

 Sichuan children together in their summer

 A lone cow walking round the river

 Meeting other souls that want to help you.

 Help when you needed it most.

 A ride of a lifetime. Away from the world that never changes, a road that always challenges you.

 Together in a new challenge and community because you went out there and tried on your own.

 Cultures, languages and people.

and Hope for tomorrow.

Supporting: IDEAS, Intestinal Disease Education & Awareness Society, Canada

Partnership: ETE, Education Through Expeditions, United Kingdom

Handy: Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook, 2nd Edition: Worldwide Cycling Route & Planning Guide

HIMALAYASX2012 / EXPEDITION OF WESTERN CHINA / NEPAL / INDIA

Adventurer sets course of returning to the Himalayas with a second mountain bike expedition starting north of the Taklamakan Desert. The expansive territory of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region include desert crossings to reach high altitude desert plateaus (5000+ meter altitude) descending to the lush wildlife inhabited jungles of Nepal to the Himalayas of northern India is route for the HimalayasX2012. In 2011, Brian Perich completed a round-China expedition with twists in the journey. A 30-hour passenger ferry from Incheon, South Korea to Tianjin, China was only the beginning. Once landed in mainland China, he cycled in Beijing and boarded an overcrowded passenger train traveling 3240km to Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. After standing for 36 hours without access to a toilet, and drinking only boiled water while wedged between passenger cars and people, he endured the real experience of economy train travel across China. Liberated by local Han Chinese university lecturer-turned oil company executive, he sponsored  a free apartment to recover from blood clotting in his legs and feet, a free visit to a local hospital. Adding the generous assistance of Uyghur bicycle owners and mechanics repairing the brakes and reinforcing the make-shifted front racks...he launched into a 3200km (1800km) whirl through the Tian Shan Mountains, across the Taklamakan Desert en route through the southern Silk Road to the northern Himalayas and back to Kashgar, Urumqi and continuing stage two, across Chengdu, Sichuan to the Himalayas and south through Yunnan Province ending the expedition at Deqin, Yunnan. It was the most extreme adventure to date, beyond the borders, into the cultures, languages, people, he encountered genuine kindness, generosity, serendipity and magic that can only be found while traveling long distances using only a bicycle, foot and thumb on the road. 

This solo expedition is supporting several non-profit organizations:

IDEAS, Intestinal Disease Education & Awareness Society, Canada 

in partnership with ETE, Education Through Expeditions, U.K.

 Local sponsorship: AN DAE GI at Gangneung Bike Mart, Gangwon-do, South Korea

 My sponsor knows mountain bikes and has built my recycled mountain touring bike.

 I will be using the same equipment from the HimalayasX2011

 Bicycle touring expeditions like a pro. Simple is reliable.

 Fully loaded Blackcat mountain bike, frame is aluminum alloy.

 Day and nights on expedition routes to complete in 60 days.

Updates to come....

Passing camel tracks in the Borohoro section of the Tian Shan Mountains, Xinjiang Uyghur 

Handy: Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook, 2nd Edition: Worldwide Cycling Route & Planning Guide