Watched it on TV last night, poor old bugger is suffering a bit!
Shouldn't he have had a Ti frame plus a comfy seat to help him out?
How heavy is that bike?
What tyres for dragging a one-eyed bear down from scotland?
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He came through Inners the other day - apparently he was really struggling with some of the inclines.
I watched a clip that said the rickshaw weighed [b][u]twenty four times[/b][/u] as much as a 'normal bike'. That can't be right surely!! That would mean about 500lbs, no way!
They should have made him carry around a shrieking hen party, like a proper rickshaw.
I'm not a fan of the bloke, but fair play to him for this one - incredibly hard.
He was on the Fred Macaulay show on radio scotland last week, speaking from Innerleithen. Sounded tough, said he could get up to 20 mph on the downhill and lucky to get 2 mph on some of the uphills. chapeau
'E came through our village last night. Mrs Boblo and I tandemed to the next village and rode back with him.
He has an entourage of 4 medics on m/c's, a big van, a motorhome, loads of cars and a police escort... Fek me with a root vegetable. He might be trying hard but he's dog slow and all those flunkies...
Some poor sod was riding with him - his minder I think, fed him every few miles and dribbled water down his chin... Imagine ~12 hrs in the saddle on a carbon roadbike doing ~6mph! We couldn't stay warm he was going that slow...
So what about sponsoring him then?
SMS:- MATT to 70705
He's earned that fiver!
he was late into York (I think) and had to subsequently start late the next morning because his medical team had to have 10 hours off and he couldn't start without them
Why does he need a team of 4 medics on m/c's? Not dissing him (as da kids say) but I just don't get why he needs all that support....
it'll be bbc health and safety gone mad 🙂
Fair play to him~ Rickshaw unloaded weighs 60-90Kg depending on make and model ~ the velocab he's on without a canopy would be somewhere around 75kg, but should roll quite well because of the larger (than 20" that are on alot of pedicabs) wheels.
Quite a dab hand at it myself; 5 years as a rickshaw rider, including Canterbury to Edinburgh solo~ camping in hedges along the way!!
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Jive you're mental mate! Epic trip!
Did you ever consider it could've been more fun on a different velo?
Well, I was going to write a book about it... and I had to get it from the factory in Canterbury, to my chosen workplace in Edinburgh, so it made sense.
Worst pain of the journey was nipple chafe.