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Cairns resident clocks half-a-million kilometres cycling around the world by the age of 78 ThuThursday 18 Loading Print text only Cancel Since 1977, Tilmann Waldthaler has cycled 520,000 kilometres through 143 countries, been held at gunpoint in Iran, hit by a bus in India, and sat next to reggae legend Bob Marley on a plane. The Cairns resident has the body of a 50-year-old but is nearly 80 and still rides every day. I don t look like an 80-year-old, I don t think like an 80-year-old, I don t act like an 80-year-old person, he said. I can jump on my bike and do 160km today. Born in Germany in 1942 and raised in the Italian Dolomites, the trained pastry chef came to Australia in the 1960s and had stints working in Sydney, the Gold Coast and Green Island, off Cairns. ....