phil white has just returned from an 18,000-mile, around-the-world bicycle trip. white had two reasons for making this epic journey. first of all, he wanted to use the trip to raise money for charity, which he did．he raised ￡70,000 for the british charity, oxfam. white's second reason for making the trip was to break the world record and become the fastest person to cycle around the world. he is still waiting to find out if he has broken the record or not.
white set off from trafalgar square, in london, on 19th june 2004 and was back 299 days later. he spent more than l,300 hours in the saddle（车座） and destroyed four sets of tyres and three bike chains. he had the adventure of his life crossing europe, the middle east, india, asia, australia, new zealand and the americas. amazingly, he did all of this with absolutely no support team. no jeep carrying food, water and medicine. no doctor. nothing! just a bike and a very, very long road.
