Heinz Stücke: Life Lessons from 51 Years on the Road (Part 2)

Heinz Stücke returns for Part 2 where he shares the honest truths and life lessons learned from 51 years of cycling the world.

Check out Part 1 of our discussion here.

Listen if:
You’re curious about the real cost of a life of adventure, how long-term travel shapes a person, and what 51 years on a bicycle teaches you about the world.

Key takeaways:

• The cost of long-term travel and what Heinz had to sacrifice to keep travelling
• How travelling alone opened more doors for connection and kindness
• How Heinz worked kept funding his travels and his bases for working out where to go next
• The “a bike is a bike, is a damn bike” philosophy and why Heinz never romanticised his bicycle and stayed proudly Mr Analog
• What decades of travel with paper maps and film cameras taught him that today’s digital world of internet, smartphones and GPS can't replicate
• How Heinz is still permanently travelling now

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Once again a big thank you to Lizzie Jenkins for coming along to film this interview. Be sure to give her a follow on Instagram - @Lizzie_Jenkins_Film

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Chapters

• 2:28 The reason for setting off
• 15:17 Relationships with Zoya
• 21:31 Impact on family relationships
• 28:28 Travels in India and China
• 34:56 Heinz's 'Stomping Grounds'
• 41:27 Mastering Bike Travel
• 50:44 A Bike is a bike is a bike...
• 59:33 Navigating with paper maps
• 1:10:42 Setting records was never my goal
• 1:15:46 I am Mr Analog!
• 1:18:59 Lessons from 51 years cycling around the world