It's REALLY looming now. The ferry is booked, my extended family know I'm coming, I've been in about 8 Irish newspapers and, well, there's no backing out.
The tallbike's been on tour this week. We took it to London on a Cyclemagic roadshow and taught about 20 people how to ride it, including a teenaged Ethiopian lad who looked more relaxed on it than Will or I do... Get in touch! You can do the next daft ride on it!
I also met Will Stevens for the first time... Will is one of the Tallbike Tour of Britiain brothers and a really nice guy. It all feels a little less daunting to meet someone who's done something like this already... It felt like he was passing on a batton.
I tried to convince him to ride the Northern Irish coast with me so he can claim to have ridden the entire coastline of the UK... I hope he can do it! Either way, without him and Ed having done their route last year it's doubtful whether I'd have come up with the idea of doing this ride...
The other highlight of the day was watching stuntman Rich Johnson pull huge wheelies on the tallbike... you can see a picture at http://www.cyclemagic.org.uk/images/rich-johnson-large.jpg... Truly impressive!
The night before the event Roger and I stayed in South London and went for a drink in The Kilkenny Tavern in Merton. Roger was immediately happy as there was a penny-farthing on the wall, but the music and atmosphere in there was fantastic... a taster of things to come... I still didn't have a Guinness, tho...
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