{"id":86771,"date":"2025-08-23T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86771\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:58:12","slug":"llangollen-teens-start-year-long-cycle-to-thailand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86771\/","title":{"rendered":"Llangollen teens start year-long cycle to Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755498308_869_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/853f58b0-7f39-11f0-b7ed-0b17109072b5.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Dyfan Hughes Dyfan Hughes, 17, James Thomas, 18, and Louis Dennis, 18, smile at the camera. They have their arms around each other and are wearing red T-shirts with the British Heart Foundation logo on it. They have sports sunglasses and bike helmets on and are on their bikes. \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Dyfan Hughes<\/p>\n<p>Dyfan Hughes, James Thomas, and Louis Dennis are on day 21 of their adventure<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Three teenagers have decided to cycle from Wales to Thailand to visit their friend and raise money for charity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Dyfan Hughes, 17, James Thomas, 18, and Louis Dennis, 18, have never ridden a bike further than the shop near their homes in Llangollen, Denbighshire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">But over the next year they will be cycling through 19 countries to meet up with their friend who moved to Thailand six months ago after his dad died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">One of the biggest challenges, James said, will be going through Kazakhstan because &#8220;you could go 50 from 150 kilometres (31 to 93 miles) there without seeing a town or anything&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Speaking on <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002h5ry\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC Radio Wales Breakfast<\/a> on Friday, James said they were on day 21 of their adventure and had made it to Germany. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Yesterday I punctured my bike, actually, and none of us have had to fix that before, but we kind of came together and figured it out, and it was great. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Everything&#8217;s all right now with the bikes, we haven&#8217;t had many difficulties with the bikes yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He said the three of them went on a four-week course where Drosi Bikes shop taught them &#8220;most stuff that&#8217;ll happen to our bike and how to fix it, which helped a lot&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve hardly ridden a bike before. We bought our bikes around two months ago, and we&#8217;ve just gone for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The teens said they were doing the journey to raise money for the British Heart Foundation and have gained 25,000 followers on Instagram and 87,700 followers on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We&#8217;re excited for everything. Get more experience as the days go on, we&#8217;ve learned a lot in these three weeks,&#8221; James said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;There&#8217;s definitely a few countries we can&#8217;t go through because of wars, because of some of their laws,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It took like two or three months of planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We had a time range where we had to leave because we didn&#8217;t want it to be winter going through Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We planned it out so that we can get to Kazakhstan for April, because then the weather is not too cold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The 18-year-old said they were &#8220;confident that we&#8217;re going to make it&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dyfan Hughes Dyfan Hughes, James Thomas, and Louis Dennis are on day 21 of their adventure Three teenagers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-86771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}