😛 Track stands, manuals…

If you’ve ever wanted to learn to do these things by proxy via a fit blonde TV presenter wearing a low-cut top and inappropriate shorts, now’s your chance.

And now, “through the round window”, she’s getting a bespoke fatbike knocked up for her to use on her trip to the South Pole.

I see an over the bars moment coming up!

keep off the bloody brakes 😆

That is a terrible helmet!

It has to be asked though….what tyres for the South Pole? 😀

20cm ones apparently!

what tyres for the South Pole?

Long thin straight ones with a slidy bottom.

eh? Why not just take a normal fatbike?

need to get that rope off the back tyre too.

She’s already been. Hardly rode the bike – some useless sand bike thing.

The blog.

This is telling:

Overall stats:

Miles on kite: 329 (8 days)
Miles on bike: 103 (7 days)
Miles on skis: 68 (3 days)

Helen x

Just done some MTB race – “Over The Hump”? Why do TV presenters never wear proper cycling clobber? Same with Countryfile. Always wobbling along in denims and a tweed jacket with a helmet hanging off the back of their head.

Isn’t ‘a low cut top and inappropriate shorts’ proper gear, it sounds ideal to me.

Watching this on cbbc now. How come the wheels are so titchy? Surely she should have succumbed to the current trend for 29’ers?

That is a seriously fugly bike!

AND SERIOUSLY EXPENSIVE!!! 😯 $4100

and for an extra $1.5k you can have a motor

I can’t believe it’s using standard, off-the-shelf transmission. Plenty of people on this forum will have experienced them freezing up on winter night-rides in the UK, never mind the Artic Circle…

Surely it’d have been better off with some kind of internal gears, and specific low-temperature lubrication?