I don't have a TV, so apologies if everyone has seen this already...
I looked up my local bike shop on yell.com and noticed a link to this guy's blog:
http://www.globecycle.org/blog/He's attempting to cycle round the world in 150 days... using a belt driven Rohloff!!!! I didn't realise belt drive had come far enough to be relied on for a round the world trip. It's also 45 days quicker than Mark Beaumont achieved last year.
I'm very interested to see how he gets on