Who are Spoke Yokes?
Spoke Yokes are Mark Graham and Ellie O’Byrne. For the past ten years, they’ve been cycling together in places both beautiful and strange. They’ll often inadvertently miss the tourism hotspots and end up cycling through industrial estates and past waste-water treatment plants.
In spring 2025 they are setting off on a two-year cycle around the world.
They are funding this by converting two double decker buses into tiny homes.
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Mark
Mark Graham is an award-winning travel writer and author of A Year of Festivals in Ireland, a musician and a music lecturer at SETU. In 2015 he cycled the entire Wild Atlantic Way on a wooden bicycle. His social media handles are @IreMusPod. He is currently 7% bicycle.
Ellie
Ellie O’Byrne is a freelance journalist whose work is found in the Irish Examiner, the Irish Times, the Echo, the Avondhu and many others. She won a SMEDIA award for her radio documentary, Bom Caminho, in which she walked 600km of the Portuguese Camino with her two children, then 13 and 8. On social media, she is also Ellie O’Byrne. She’s currently as little as 5% bicycle.
Hold her steady and stay between the ditches, bitches!
