Day: 3 August 2009

Land’s End to John O’Groats by flying tricycle
John Carver, a 37-year-old teacher from Oxfordshire, is doing the End-to-End on a Flyke – a recumbent tricycle powered by a two-stroke engine and and harnessed to a paraglider canopy.

And they’re off! Cracknell and Romero’s record chasing End to End race has started (Website post been posted :()
A four o’clock this morning James Cracknell and Rebecca Romero set off on a world record attempt to cycle non-stop from Land’s End to John O’Groats on a mixed tandem bicycle.