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The Tale of a Modern Day Ibn Battuta We continue our cyclist series with Omar Al Omair, a Saudi cyclist and explorer. By Johara Almogbel
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Omar Al Omair just wanted to cycle. Buying a standard level bike, he joined the well-known Darajati group, a club for cycling enthusiasts who routinely traversed the roads of Riyadh together. But it wasn’t enough, and soon after he ended up upgrading to a carbon fibre bicycle, calling it Pegasus, and going solo and traveling over 15,000 kilometers in 15 different countries.
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