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# 12 mph politics - the conversation
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/12-mph-politics-conversation/
- Published: 2015-01-26T21:01:27.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:25:21.000Z
- Description: Breaking records, hospitality, racism, poverty, globalisation and two concepts of hope ... the film of an evening of conversation around "Life Cycles", Julian Sayarer's account of his record-breaking cycling circumnavigation of the globe
- Author: Tony Curzon Price
- Tags: Europe, #Migrated, United Kingdom, London, Tedworth, openglobalrights-openpage-blog, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:46

Thank you to the wonderful people at [TheatreDelicatessen](http://www.theatredelicatessen.co.uk/?ref=opendemocracy.net) for hosting us and keeping their bar open, to [Ross Fairgrieve](http://rossfairgrieve.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net) for the *pro bono* filming & to [the Tedworth Trust](https://www.opendemocracy.net/freeform-tags/tedworth) for supporting this series on openDemocracy.

### The list below provides jump links to specific points in the video

### Coarse jump-links

- [INTRODUCTION TO RECORD & RIDE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=2)
- [SPONSORSHIP & RECLAIMING THE RECORD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=385)
- [HOSPITALITY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=1380.2)
- [POVERTY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=3167)
- [GLOBALISATION](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=3982)
- [OPTIMISM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=5097)

### Fine-grain jump-links

- [INTRODUCTION TO RECORD & RIDE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=2)
- [early relationship to bike](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=235)
- Tour de France Early long distance riding
- [SPONSORSHIP & RECLAIMING THE RECORD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=385)
- [Kath question - Julian's ambivalence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=525)
- Toughness of ride Not caring about record Yet obsession with record
- [Julian's answer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=655)
- ["The world gone wrong principles"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=720)
- [TCP - reclaiming the record](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=834)
- [Question about money and principles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=936)
- [Kath - motivation, physical exertion and mental states](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=1098)
- The life lessons of climbing mountains & going slowly Vulnerability
- [Going up a hill and camaraderie of other cyclist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=1283)
- [HOSPITALITY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=1380.2)
- [TCP - racist jokes & juxtaposition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=1620.2)
- [Strangers in the USA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=1776)
- [What do people want to know when they meet you?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=1918)
- Fear
- [SoG on racism and hospitality](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=2068)
- Jokes to make people less afraid Honour ethic - hospitality, traditionalism and racism
- [Kindness and risk & how much you should expose yourself to](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=2459)
- [Racism -](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=2580)
- [More on race](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=2667)
- [TCP Risk - threat or vulnerability? The strength of the weak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=2758)
- [Hospitality in face of language barrier - how does it work?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=2940.3)
- China, Chian, helpfulness Kazakhstan
- [POVERTY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=3167)
- [TCP - broadening horizons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=3377)
- [Individualism of the record and solidarity - tension](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=3721)
- Humility of travelling by bicycle
- [Any negative impacts on people along the way?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=3874)
- positive impacts
- [GLOBALISATION](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=3982)
- China trucks and pigs
- [TCP - Chinese Prometheanism & what kind of globalisation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=4238)
- [Globalisation & scene in Spanish brothel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=3655)
- [Borders and population movements](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=4680)
- [Did Chinese people have any sense of unfreedoms?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=4799)
- [Global brands](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=4978)
- KFC or KFC
- [OPTIMISM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=5097)
- Adventure hard-on, commodified hope
- [Chinese boy episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=5347)
- [2 types of hope](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=5601)
- [Breaking the record to protest the spirit the record had been broken in](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=5701)
- [TCP - Numbers, quantification and doing it the right way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=5750)
- [This is not for charity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=5978)
- [Revolutionary versus incremental projects](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCns-e2pTU&ref=opendemocracy.net#t=6211)