Handbikepacking

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Verena
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The Monday after gritfest I was in a meeting at work, everyone asked how everyone's weekend was, someone's husband had seen my pictures online, asked about it, so i bored them stiff for a few minutes with my ravings of how brilliant it was, etc..
Bit later that morning, guy from work who's in a wheelchair messages me, we have a chat, he tells me that he's got a recumbent bike, would like to get (back) into cycling and just getting a bit fitter generally, but finds it hard to get up his Powys hills on his bike...
I half wonder whether surely there must be an answer to that, but think no more of it, life goes on....
Today on instagram I come across this really cool one, username is exactly this, "handbikepacking", looks amazing!!
Have any of you heard about this?
So I send the link to the guy at work, hey look what I found, remember that chat we had the other day?
A few hours later we're on whatsapp with me showing him pictures of his dad getting the bike out of the garage and starting to put it back together... :smile:

Watch this space..... (to be continued, I hope....)
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Have a search on-line for Mel Nicholls. Prolific hand-biker and very nice she is too. Could go under Dolly2racer on social networks.
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Have a look for Karen Darke. Totally inspiring.

This is a good podcast about bikpacking and handbiking.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FVbdCq2gFGrnSe9tTt75z
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Very well done Verena... Amazing what you've done/doing there :-bd
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