The Irish Times

CS Clancy Centenary Ride: After 18,000 miles the adventurer’s boots come home

It felt like we had gone through an entire lifetime in three short months

Wed Jul 10 2013 - 01:01

CS Clancy Centenary Ride: A final resting-place for boots, diaries and pith helmet

A disused Walmart in Iowa has become a museum which houses a tribute to Clancy – and Evel Knievel

Tue Jul 02 2013 - 17:52

CS Clancy Centenary Ride: Big slowdown at Cow Creek Canyon

A 12-mile stretch in Oregon was like an endless, frozen pig-pen as steep as a roof and littered with logs, rocks and ruts, wrote Clancy 100 years ago

Tue Jun 25 2013 - 17:57

CS Clancy Centenary Ride: The rocky road to sleepy Sacramento

Setting off from San Francisco, Clancy rode dirt tracks that made Tunisian highways seem like silk

Tue Jun 18 2013 - 17:08

CS Clancy Centenary Ride: Kamikaze pedestrians on the road from Nagasaki to Tokyo

Carl Stearns Clancy was glad to see roads in Nagasaki; 100 years later, we are reminded of the fragility of life

Tue Jun 11 2013 - 18:17

CS Clancy Centenary Ride: A headspinning vista of skyscrapers in Hong Kong, and a heady mix of jazz music in Shanghai

Clancy’s plan to ride to Shanghai was thwarted by the absence of roads

Tue Jun 04 2013 - 18:05

CS Clancy Centenary Ride: When in Rome, do as much sightseeing as you can

The acting may not have impressed Clancy when he visited Rome 100 years ago, but he’d soon sorely miss the Italian food

Wed May 15 2013 - 02:00

CS Clancy Centenary Ride

‘Frazier’s two-wheel travels have taken him over 1,000,000 miles and he has literally ridden a motorcycle to the ends of the earth’

Mon Apr 08 2013 - 16:37

The other side of the Motorcyle Adventurer

Thanks to his films, we can follow in the trail of the pioneer Carl Clancy without a bike

Fri Apr 05 2013 - 16:50

Searching for the real Rembrandt in Amsterdam

Copies but no original greet bikers on the trail of Carl Stearns Clancy and Walter Randell Storey

Sat Mar 30 2013 - 06:00

All’s well in Chester, where time stands still and English eccentrics thrive

The beauty of the English countryside is almost unchanged from the time CS Clancy travelled through it

Thu Mar 28 2013 - 06:00

Snow puts brakes on centenary round-the-world motorcycle ride

The weather wasn’t kind to the original 1913 duo, Carl Stearns Clancy and Walter Randell Storey, either . . .

Mon Mar 25 2013 - 06:00

Around the world with the ghost of a motorbike pioneer

A group of Irish riders are retracing the route of Carl Stearns Clancy, the first man to motorcycle around the world

Sat Mar 23 2013 - 06:00