Pat Garrod (b. Chelmsford 1964) is a British physician and long distance motorcyclist. He and his wife Vanessa Lewis undertook a round-the-world ride on a 1991 BMW R100GS, between 1998 and October, 2002. His 2010 book Bearback — The World Overland describing the 4-year journey was called as a "damned good story" by Overland magazine, and evidence of improving quality in self-published overland adventure books. After the circumnavigation, Garrod and Lewis crossed Africa twice more by motorcycle. One north-to-south traversal in 2006 was more than long; Garrod's travel log records a total of over in Africa alone. Bibliography References External links Long-distance motorcycle riders Motorcycle touring writers English sportswriters 20th-century English medical doctors 21st-century English medical doctors Living people 1964 births People from Chelmsford Alumni of the University of Southampton