day 16 of cycling across the USA from Miami to LA or to raise money for the fantastic
cause get kids going today we are riding out of New Orleans after our rest day to a place
called Raceland this is the first day of riding with our new setup the big trailer so anything
could happen you feeling confident I will be once we have the route on your garment oh
why isn't it on there I don't know that's because I didn't put it on there yeah
probably it seems about right I don't know I don't know anything anymore my brain's
turned off because we had rest days [Music] chances about falling off pretty high [Music]
the trailer is not working as planned so we've stopped by the side of the road to try and
figure out how we can get some more weight on my bike rather than everything on the trailer
because it's just it feels really unstable we're using loads of duct tape again foreign [Music]
number two let's see how this goes
so what we've done is duct tape my tail fin back onto my bike and in terms of ride quality
it's made a massive difference this is so much better but the part that we've duct taped it to
the handle on the trailer is plastic oh massive hole another hole hole so I'm not sure it's going
to be a lasting solution oh this is actually crazy the road is so bad here we're riding through quite
a nice neighborhood uh out of New Orleans now hopefully we'll get to the bridge to take us fully
out of the city soon because this road surface is awful big problem for Justin who has many wheels
so the update this morning is things could be going better but we're rolling we're rolling
I can safely say that's a road I never want to ride again
Huey P bridge that was uh that was an experience
that was the worst Road I've ever ridden on the motorway the motorway with the bridge yes
understand that why people said yes you can ride on it but the question is why would you want to
in our defense the other option was a ferry which would have been a lot slower and a lot safer
true I feel like it's taken us three hours just to try and get to the outside of New Orleans I think
it has how's the trailer now working out for you have a guess what color the strawberry flavor is
red obviously no that's ridiculous green
what color is pineapple flavor yellow don't be ridiculous Francis it's white
it's also the only color that's pretty much not on a pineapple
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so we're having a few stability issues with the trailer and my bike as a whole and I think it's
just because there's so much stuff either when I take the tail fin off and put it all in the
trailer it's a little bit unstable or we put the tail fin on like this as we have it now
it's still unstable so I think we're gonna have to explore other options we're going to get to
the end of today as fast as we can so we have maximum time this evening to see what we can do
to make things better oh thank you I already feel better I was gonna get you more but I thought as
quick as possible just get from food into you why have I been grumpy maybe a little you're
not actually being grumpy you just we need to get into the hotel we need to figure this out
it's not grumpiness I'm much faster on the bike that's the only good thing about this situation
I'm going from Miami to Los Angeles where's the Monica Terrace
[Laughter]
everywhere we go everyone's so nice aren't they we officially got our first happy New Year is that
what he said oh yeah happy New Year I don't know how clear it was earlier when we were filming how
we attached the tail fin back onto the trailer I'll get another shot of it uh when we're at
the hotel in a minute basically it is a super temporary solution and it has made the trailer
run much much better because I think the problem was it was just overloaded before the issue that
we're really having now is that all the weights everything absolutely everything is on my bike
so Justin has got much much faster now he hasn't got the chair on the back I've got significantly
slower because I've got even more stuff and the bike doesn't want to handle very well so I
think we're going to try and distribute the weight better and see just see if we can put the trailer
on his bike which should mean lower rolling resistance and less friction because it's only
one wheel it's also got a little suspension shock so that should iron out some bumps and not cause
all the vibration issues that we were having with the wheelchair on the back in the first place and
then we should be a bit more even maybe worth a try thankfully we've been on some very quiet roads
today the Old Spanish Trail we decided to blast through this last little bit we've been doing
about 35k an hour you're doing 35k now with one arm well I've slowed down to 33 now it's not easy
but uh Francis is just about hanging on that squeak you can hear there's the
sound of his these but we're still happy with each other so that's all that really
matters isn't that I spy yeah let's play I spy I spy with my little eye a nuclear power plant
foreign [Music]
done we made it how do you feel that was quite tough you're the reddest you've
been on the whole time how do you feel like we did the last bit very quickly
double burrito day double Taco Bell day that's bad I'm gonna be good to talk about sponsored us
so that was an unnecessarily stressful day where things just kept going wrong we're gonna be sat
here in the room tinkering with trailer Solutions I'm gonna see if we can get it on the back of
Justin's bike I wanted to end today's video though with a giveaway to get all of the footage while
we're riding we use GoPros both me and Justin attached to grill mounts which are these mounts
on the top that you can put and now I hope you need to quickly take it out of your hands uh or
you can use it as a lever or you can use it as a tripod really versatile piece of Kit the man who
runs Pro standard and who invented this Mount has given us 12 of these to give away there'll
be a link in the description down below where you can click enter your email address and you
have to follow Pro standard and me on Instagram to have a chance of winning once we've reached
California we'll announce the winners there will also be an affiliate link for one of these Down
Below in the description as well so if you want to buy one use that link and then 10 of the sale
will go to the charity get kids going which is why we're here raising money also if you'd like
to donate to them anyway there will be the usual Link in the description thank you very much for
watching this video we will be back to our usual Happy selves tomorrow hopefully any last words
chocolate milk at the end of the ride was a really good idea [Music]