Le 29 mai 1901 à 1 h 50, Gaston Stiegler, homme de lettres et journaliste, s'embarquait dans le train de Russie à la gare du Nord. Le 30 au matin, il arrivait à Berlin, le 31 à Saint-Pétersbourg, le 1er juin à Moscou, le 3 juin à Samara.

Cyclist dies one week from world tour finish. The tourist killed after he was hit by a truck while cycling near Te Puke had been biking around the world for the past three years and was due to fly home on Friday. The man was named today as Stephan Stoermer, 38, of Frankfurt.

Walter Stolle's Bicycle Saga, or Around the World in 18 Years. When he was a teenager, Walter Stolle got a crazy idea. “I decided,” he recalls, “that I would make the longest journey ever on a bike.” He did. It covered 400,000 miles—the equivalent of 16 trips around the world—took him to 159 countries and lasted 18 years.