Team Team Tuk Duk

Richard Gowland
Of Team Tuk Duk
On the The Rickshaw Run Autumn 09

We Have A Rickshaw

So last night we arrived at the resort where we're all setting off from tomorrow morning. We have a fully painted up rickshaw, covered in rubber ducks and with a big inflatable duck on the roof. Haven't quite worked out where to put all our bags though...All the other teams are pretty cool chillers too, which is to be expected. Stil reckon we're the most chilled about the whole thing though.

Also everybody whose sponsored has now had their name painted somewhere on the rickshaw. Also due to a lack of communication Ally is on there twice. Oh well.

Currently we're  set to be fashionable late for the opening part in an hour-ago's time. Also we need to give our scooters back which we've been using to get used to the roads. We took our rickshaw out today, and I have no idea how it's supposed to make it to Nepal. It's basically a glorified moped with incredibly suspect gears, a massive starting handle which chooses often not to work, and a horrible sounding single cylinder engine. Also the wheels on our scooters are bigger! They gave us a spare spark plug though, so it looks like all will be fine...

 Oh and becasue Chupa Chups sponsored us, but for some reason with sweets not money, we've started giving our 8000 sweets away to local children. It's not particularly easy though, as They start to swarm and climb all over us. Also James is a massive chuffer and believes them when they tell him they haven't had one.

 

Will try and attach some pictures at some point soon!

 RAJ

(Rich Anton James, see what we did there...)

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Richard Gowland

I'm doin' the risckshaw run partly out of stupidity, and partyly out of curiosity. It's gonna be awesome.

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