The unique Indian Pacific cycling race

It's being billed as the toughest cycling race ever staged in Australia. The Indian-Pacific Wheel Race gets underway from Fremantle later this month, with riders hoping to get all the way across the continent to the finish line in Sydney. Image: a bicycle at the boundary of South Australia and Western Australia (Indian Pacific Wheel Race website)

And amongst those competing in this gruelling quest is a man more used to writing about cycling than participating in it.