Wheely good fun: Two women cycle across the world on bamboo bikes

A journey that started out with some trepidation has turned out to be transformational for Julie Lawrence and Li Dietlif.

WHEN Julie Lawrence and Li Dietlif embarked on their “bamboo odyssey” last March – riding their self-made bamboo bicycles from their home in Peckham Rye in South-east London halfway across the world to Sydney, Australia – they didn’t quite know what to expect.