Whoever said “youth is wasted on the young” never met Englishman Jack Groves. After finishing his university studies in 2019, Groves quickly became disillusioned with a 9-to-5 lifestyle. Inspired by fellow Brit Kane Avellano’s journey around the world, the then-21-year-old purchased a second-hand Royal Enfield Himalayan and embarked on a trip that would change his life and the record books.
Groves set out on July 11, 2019, with plans of traveling through Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, Central Asia, China, Southeast Asia, Australia, and South America. As the adventure rider notes in the Royal Enfield’s "The First Step - An Ode to Adventure" video, “there’s a real beauty in that proximity between comfort and danger, and riding that line is intoxicating.”
