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Reid public servant Lachlan Wilson is close to his mission of riding the equivalent of the Earth's circumference on the bike paths of Canberra. That's more than 40,000 kilometres.

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00:00Two brown snakes across the path where I was forced to take sudden avoidance action.

00:25A peacock, a male peacock with its tail fully splayed at Puyallago really surprised me once.

00:32Magpies that try to swoop you but end up landing on your shoulder and they're as confused as

00:38you are.

00:39So they're some of the strangest things that I've seen, even amongst all the wonderful

00:42things you see on camera as well.

00:45A variety of people that you see on the bike paths, occasionally in combat mode between

00:53cyclists and pedestrians but in all seriousness, Nordic walkers, power walkers, people going

00:59up in balloons, politicians early in the morning, a range of people, people on their phones,

01:07people on their coffee breaks, other cyclists, e-bike, people on e-bikes who just go past

01:14you so easily that it's completely unfair.

01:18They're some of the highlights that you see on the Canberra bike path.

01:24I've now reached my goal of 40,075 kilometres which equals the circumference of the earth

01:32at the equator.

01:35Done purely on Canberra bike paths, I guess I'll be relieved.

01:39It's not something I set out to do.

01:41I might post something on my Facebook page and maybe have something to drink to celebrate

01:49that night.

01:53I've now reached my goal of 40,075 kilometres which equals the circumference of the earth

01:59at the equator.

02:00It's not something I set out to do.

02:02I might post something on my Facebook page and maybe have something to drink to celebrate

02:07that night.

02:08It's not something I set out to do.

02:10I might post something on my Facebook page and maybe have something to drink to celebrate

02:15that night.

02:16It's not something I set out to do.

The Canberra man doing a lap of the world - all on local bike paths

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