Amy and Kyle Hudson were well ahead of schedule during their round-the-world cycle when a serious traffic incident in Canada caused Kyle to crash, leaving him with a broken collarbone and throwing the couple’s whole record attempt into doubt.

“We were just getting out of Montreal, on a bike path, when a car decided to turn left without any right of way,” Kyle told Cycling Weekly , while enroute to hospital.

“Amy had to slam her brakes on – which was the best course of action, otherwise we would have all got run over – and there was nowhere for me to go. I ended up hitting her bag and then the floor. I stood up straight away and said: ‘I think