Adventure 13
Is on the brink of existence
Come forth and Pioneer the Wallah Run
(if it doesn’t suck)
Rickshaws are engineering’s highest life form. Well they were until we made our own 3 wheeled electro-turd. Behold our first prototype electrical power-assisted beast, pictured but a few days ago…
This triumph of optimism is a fine cocktail of electrical adventuring stupidity. To make such an intoxicating spirit we wafted the essence of shopping trolley through a base of recycled cat food tins and added the sharp tang of an electric chair. The result is rather good. Probably.
The pedal ‘shaw is like the great, great auntie who occasionally hits cats with her detachable leg – to the much beloved auto-rickshaw of the Rickshaw Run. These wobbly apparatus of leg torture have plied the streets of India for a 100 odd years. We’ve always admired them, but wanted a teeny bit more power than our weedy pins could muster. So we weaselled one into our secret Skunk Works deep in the corner of Calcutta and added 500 watts of pedal enhancing power to convert it into something capable of crossing the entire subcontinent. Or the biggest mountain range on Earth. Or some other terrible idea we’ve not really thought through.
Now we’ve built the prototype we’re heading off to give them a poke about the gills to see if this idea sucks or not. If it doesn’t we formally invite you to come and pioneer some deeply implausible odyssey. Obviously you want to do exactly that, so shove your email below so we’ll know how many of you are as stupid as us and we’ll let you know how to join first.
This then, is the Wallah Run. It’s going to be glorious, or a catastrophe.