Greenspeed recumbent trike

March 2011, with the help of the BT benevolent fund I finally ordered A Greenspeed recumbent trike From Australia, Please see the link to their web site. The reason for such a change from solo Cycling to a Tandem is to reseeding eye sight , I am registered as blind as I have lost over 80% of my eye sight mostly from the centre of my eyes. I am still managing to ride solo with my Club the west Middlesex CTC see links. However it’s getting near the end and I’m getting ready for the time it will be too dangerous for the solo bike witch I will miss greatly as losing the independence just to go and get lost for a few hours on my own, or go touring with a tent around the UK. The Tandem will give me the tool to keep my cycling passion alive and my social life ticking over. My good Friend Adrian is the main Pilot / captain However it’s been modified by Greenspeed to take a large range of riding sizes for whoever wishes to take me out. I could not have achieved obtaining this tandem without BT and the charities BT contacted on my behalf. And I had one member of BT staff donate towards it thank you. And a big thanks you to the guys and girls at Greenspeed. This is a web site of its birth and journeys, of what I call my Thunderbird 2, in photos.

Friday, 14 December 2012


Greenspeed Tandems on U TUBE from all over the world 









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Saturday, 8 December 2012

Replacing the King Pin and wheel on the Greenspeed GTT



Dec 8th 2012
Replacing the King Pin and wheel on the Greenspeed GTT

As to a problem with the Dynamo, I have had a problem with it from the beginning, aligning the disk pads, shimming the calliper then taking it on a ride to find that it would move again and I would have to re shim it again. A very quick job no problems. The dynamo its self has a problem to as you can see in the video, I think the Cal peer could do with a bleed, that will be the next job.   



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 Greenpeed GTT More shimming
Another two Hr. marathon, got there in the end 





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This is not my Set up but it’s the same calliper just a better photo
To show what it looks like. 


. The King Post is different than my one to but it’s not much different 





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Monday, 3 December 2012

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Sunday, 25 November 2012

25th Nov 2012 UP DAT


Hi there,

 Sunday 25th Greenspeed GTT Update,

We took the Tandem out to day first time for a longish time.

Did not Video the trip as it was only a short trip to Windsor for a cup of tea and back again.

However did a video Update.

 

Ride out to WIndsor via Poyle and Datchet, tea by the river and back home via Uxbridge. 27 miles total distance, average speed around 12.5 mph, maximum speed 28.5 mph. 


This year’s stats 2012

 
 
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Sunday, 9 September 2012

 
 
 I think this was the last of the summer, a really nice day so took the Greenspeed up to London for the day. Lost count of the Photos being taken, it’s always great fun taking the tandem up London.
Nice to see in my life time at last there remembered, whatever the feelings they were only young men, mostly on their teens and twenty’s , and I am living in t6he way I do as to their lives and depth.
 
 
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Monday, 23 July 2012

GREENSPEED GTT DAY OUT IN THE SUN 22 July

Nice run Please with new front tyres thay run a lot better, and the Gopro Cams Great fun


Realy nice sunny day

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Friday, 15 June 2012

 Rocco


In Memory of Rocco who sadly died recently
The cycling world will miss him greatly.
A nice Guy and a Great cyclist 








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Rocco

So many people new Rocco, and so many have herd of him

There are a lot of stories of how others met him or how he would turn up in the most unexpected places.

I was on a sailing ship as a member of crew that set sail from Southampton bound for the Gran Canary Island, and, somewhere out at sea a week into the trip I got chatting to another blind guy on the ship and he was a cyclist a stoker on a Tandem, I just happened to menschen Rocco’s Name and the guy said O Yes I know Rocco.

Even in mid Atlantic he was known of

Once you had met him you could not forget him or his voice

What a Nice Guy he was



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