so we have to hold it taut to start with otherwise I'll just fall off
yeah it's like you get some speed up and then you suddenly hit the brakes and go flying over the handlebars
I can still ride a bike
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yeah safety first, always wear your helmet
and we learnt that actually from you accident didn't we? We'll show you in another video why it's important to wear a helmet
yeah if I wasn't wearing my helmet there then it could be a very different story
I took a pretty significant blow to the head
we are in? marston vale? yeah something like that or marston I dunno it seems to have like 5 different names this place
marston vale, marston moretaine, the forest centre...the forest of marston vale!
anyway it's in Bedfordshire
and they've got these hand bikes
not the most fancy thing that i've ever ridden but
it's something
we thought we'd come and try them out
and i'm on my bike
this is the first time I'm back on my bike since your accident, your cycling accident
it's nice to be back on it again
so we're trying it out
my knees are a bit too high
yeah so we've had to do some adaptions
so we've erm you're basically too big for this bike really
so we've managed to lower the footplate a bit to bring your legs down.
but they're still too high and they're splaying out to the sides
you'll catch it on the sides here - between there yeah tied this jump around
your legs to keep them together as best as possible yeah I need hand crank
positions it's not does it seem to be adjustable it's not you know a little
bit tired
it was fiber so I just brought my own bike and we had to hand bike - yeah
Ricky Martin
like
no I'm trying to like get his face but I didn't know this boy okay
go go go faster
before any bill
straight trippin
so in
muted overall
and I guess you can all say like if it was just fixed on the mouth we've gotta
move it around
we've been around it seems a quite nice area it's to pay for parking but it's
nice and quiet because well last time we came on earth weekend it was really busy
I would say it's definitely better to come in a weekday it's a weekday today
Friday afternoon okay yeah there's lots of kids like running around in your way
and stuff yeah it's any easier not when it's nice and quiet same let's
go towards Mill Brook station yeah okay we're going that way
that's good
mmm-hmm the other start on this bike and the the brake is pedal backwards oh
there's just but you have to take your hands off to use it so how about a
little bit easier it's not the easiest thing to start on so normally well we've
used Tampax a Forex statement well and they were recumbent bikes rather than
sitting up bikes like this which seem to be a lot easier
to the hat the wheels have also got push rims on the wheel so if you are
struggling to start off with the hand crank you can use the push rims to get
going makes noise they're definitely moving faster than you are when you're
just pushing a wheelchair even if you're not moving as fast as a normal bike but
I mean like it the size of your boots compared to my say my wheels like this
is like a little kiddie bike so it's where you can hardly see them the home
line okay no wonder it's easy for me to get where my wheels are twice the size
for this GoPro is supposed to be able to use voice people sometimes it seems to
work sometimes it doesn't
hopefully you've seen improvement
oh I know it's not working you don't say cap start company to say capture so
we've worked out wide the voice the top of the work we were saying one command
it was just capture not start capture hopefully I'm not pointing at the ground
here because I have to keep I'm like shifting my weight forwards to get a
good crank on this looks like the station this place has a variety of
different and adapted bikes so this is like the handbag they've also got
they've got a trike with a normal foot pedals but with the three wheels like
this
couple in the store this there's a few different ones this is the able to hire
up the adaptive bikes whereas a pregnant I would say um but there's a nice place
to come to cycle yeah like if we had our own camp I could be nice to come here
but this bike isn't the best suited for you but then again it was nice to be
able to cycle again exactly there was nice to go out to try
it it would just be nicer of those one that fit best or anything yeah yeah
there was the parking charges it closes at 5:00