The Touring Trotters
3 girls from Peckham; 1 rickshaw; 3500km across India
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The finish line
3 girls from Peckham; 1 rickshaw; 3500km across India. We did this. And with 2 days to spare. To all those who said this was a bad idea for an all-girl team: eat your words. It was actually another all-girl…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 12
Starting point: Vatakara, Kerala Finishing point: Cochin, Kerala Distance covered today: ~360km Total distance covered: ~3120km Number of breakdowns: 0…Mr Robbie Reliable Vatakara to Cochin. This was the beginning of the end. We knew that all being well, we would…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 11
Starting point: Udupi, Karnataka Finishing point: Vatakara, Kerala Distance covered today: ~350km Total distance covered: ~2760km Number of breakdowns: 0…c’mom Robbie….keep on rolling Udupi to Vatakara. This was a day of epic driving. Lots of hot, sweaty driving. And confusion….
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 10
Starting point: Palolem, Goa Finishing point: Udupi, Kanartarka Distance covered today: 330km Total distance covered: ~2410km Number of breakdowns: 1 Palolem to Udupi. We didn’t quite match the early start of previous days. It was just too difficult to drag…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 9
Starting point: Palolem, Goa Finishing point: Palolem, Goa Distance covered today: 0km Total distance covered: ~2080km Number of breakdowns: 0, Robbie spent the day with the mechanic having his piston replaced Palolem to…err…Palolem. We didn’t move a muscle from the…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 8
Starting point: Kudal, Maharashtra Finishing point: Palolem, Goa Distance covered today: ~160km under our own steam + 20km under somebody else’s Total distance covered: ~2080km Number of breakdowns: 1 (big problem) Kudal to Palolem. Life is cruel. We were on…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 7
Starting point: Mahad, Maharashtra Finishing point: Kudal, Maharashtra Distance covered today: ~320km Total distance covered: ~1900km Number of breakdowns: 0 (touch wood), but we did have to stop for a mechanic to replace a screw in Robbie’s wobbly nose Mahad…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 6
Starting point: Pen Finishing point: Mahad Distance covered today: ~220km Total distance covered: ~1580km Number of breakdowns: 0 (touch wood), but we arranged for Robbie to have a full 4.5 hour service Pen to Mahed. This day was a major…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 5
Starting point: Danam, Gujarat Finishing point: Pen, Maharashtra Distance covered today: ~300km Total distance covered: ~1360km Number of breakdowns: 0 (touch wood), but Robbie is labouring on the hills, rattles at 40kph, drifts to the right and his brake is…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 4
Starting point: Vadodara, Gujarat Finishing point: Daman, Gujarat Distance covered today: ~310km Total distance covered: ~1060km Number of breakdowns: 0 (touch wood) Vadodara to Daman. On a motorway. There were many hairy moments. Mostly involving trucks trying to squish us,…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 3
Starting point: Palanpur, Gujarat Finishing point: Vadodara, Gujarat Distance covered today: ~290km Total distance covered: ~750km Number of breakdowns: 0 (touch wood), but we had to get a new horn, weld the battery back on and fix the silencer Palanpur…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Day 2
Starting point: Barmer, Rajasthan Finishing point: Palanpur, Gujarat Distance covered today: ~300km Total distance covered: ~460km Number of breakdowns: 0 (touchwood), but we suffered from intermittent horn action So, Barmer to Palanpur. What can we say? It was Baltic in…
Read MoreRickshaw Run Launch Day
Starting point: Jaisalmer, Rajasthan Finishing point: Barmer, Rajasthan Distance covered: ~160km Number of breakdowns: 0 (touch wood), but we ran out of petrol with no funnel and had to flag down a passing ‘shaw, plus the ‘horn incident’ (see below)…
Read MoreRickshaw Run -1
We scurried around all day carrying out last minute preparations and drove Robbie on the open road for the very first time. Nobody move…we actually managed to reach the heady heights of 4th gear and 60kph. We. Are. Awesome. Tomorrow…
Read MoreRickshaw Run launch – 2
Meet our new man, Robbie the Rickshaw…’he’s quite a card, ain’t he?!’ After the briefest of driving demonstrations (the lights are shit; don’t use reverse, just push it; the wipers are crap; the handbrake’s a brick behind the wheel; the…
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