I built up a new Volume and Merritt BMX bike with some new sample parts and hit the streets and skateparks of New York.

“I would ride my bike to the comedy club, thinking, ‘If it’s ten miles to do that, to go to New York would be like going to downtown 300 times in a row’. “I tried not to zoom out on the map.

“It took 80 days to get from San Diego to New York City on a BMX bike,” he explained. “I believe I’m the first person to have done that in the US.

An American comedian has become the first ever person to ride from one US coast to the other - on a BMX bike. Lifelong BMXer Sebastian Fowler amazingly cycled 3,333 miles (5,300km) across 11 US states ...

Fowler also sought to become the first comedian touring the US via BMX - performing nine times in six cities - and to raise funds to buy BMXs for kids who can't afford them, in memory of his late ...

Lifelong BMXer Sebastian Fowler amazingly cycled 3,333 miles (5,300km) across 11 US states from San Diego to New York in just 80 days on his 20-inch bike.