Bob Brown rides scooter more than 4500kms across Australia from Cottesloe Beach to Wollongong as fundraiser

Despite being involved in a hit and run, a British man has conquered Australia by riding a scooter.

Bob Brown from Cornwall in the UK’s south-west started his 4500 kilometre scooter journey from Cottesloe Beach, Perth, on July 16.

The PE teacher set out to break two Guinness World Records - the fastest person to cross the country on a non-electric kick scooter and the first to do so across three transport methods (scootering, cycling, and running).

In 2001, he ran 4828.032 kilometres across the country in 60 days, becoming the first Brit to do so.

Then, he backed it up in 2003, when he cycled the route, becoming the first person to both run and bike across Australia.

Brown told the BBC, “After a lifetime packed with adventure, at 57-years-old I wanted another epic adventure before I got too old”.

He said he wanted to complete the journey as a way to encourage children to “get off their screens and be more physically active”, as well as to raise funds for MacMillan Cancer Support, St Luke’s Hospice, and Children’s Hospice South West.

Brown has been documenting his scooting trip, which he spent months training for, on Instagram.

After completing the mammoth cross-country effort in 31 days, four hours, and 10 minutes, he shared his joy with his followers.

“I achieved my dream of being the first person to ride a kick scooter across Australia and also set a World Record for the first person to cross Australia coast to coast by 3 different means ( run, cycle and scooter),” he wrote.

“Safe to say I am feeling very chuffed.”

In addition to the social media, the 57-year-old provided regular updates to donors through Crowdfunder, where he has so far raised £3814 ($A7260.43).

As he began to cross the Nullarbor Plain, he wrote that he was averaging 100 kilometres a day.

“The days are short and the nights are cold but Bob is powering through,” his team wrote.

On Instagram, he added that it was a special experience to be travelling the same route decades later.

“Travelling over the same roads as over 20 years ago has been a trip down memory lane,” he wrote.

“Shame to see a couple of the roadhouses I stayed in are now derelict.”

The worst setback, he said, was when he was involved in a hit and run.

“Early on Day 5 I got knocked off my scooter by a passing car,” he wrote on Instagram.

“The hard shoulder had narrowed a bit but I was well lit and easily visible.

“The car clipped my wing mirror and I flew into the gravel by the side of the road.

“He slowed down and then saw me get up and then just drove off.

“Needless to say I was very shaken but uninjured apart from a few grazes.

“But it did make me think. if the car had hit me another inch closer that would have been it.”

Brown said the experience had made him “think about mortality” and prompted him to ride on the wrong side of the road so he could see oncoming traffic.

While crossing the Nullarbor was “brutal”, he said he felt “stronger and stronger each day”.

He crossed into South Australia on July 28 before arriving in Victoria on August 7 and New South Wales on August 8.

Days later, on August 11, he wrote that he had experienced some “logistical problems”.

“Tyre trouble, mainly flat ones, have held up progress a little and has called for a swapping between the two scooters to keep momentum,” he told donors.

“Luckily we have kept ahead of the rain and heard the other day that there was now flooding on parts of the routes we have already covered.”

He said he had submitted evidence of his journey to Guinness and was awaiting confirmation of recognition of his achievement.

“You are never too old to stop dreaming,” he wrote.