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00:00Hello.
00:05These days I spend more and more time in my Wiltshire home.
00:11And the pub I own.
00:13Thinking about all the big problems in the world.
00:17And some smaller ones that annoy me.
00:21Luckily there's a place I can go to solve them all.
00:25Or at least try.
00:27My shed.
00:29Right.
00:31It's here that I have the tools.
00:33Let's just saw some wood up.
00:35The tea.
00:37And a couple of other highly competent blokes.
00:41Very good. Brace yourself.
00:43Who've agreed to help me rid the world of problems.
00:46Is she getting the ticket out?
00:47Great.
00:48Dirty fright at us.
00:50And small.
00:51The cereal has gone soggy.
00:53I'll also have to take on other people's problems.
00:56What is wrong with Peter?
00:57He used to make a sound.
00:59And now he doesn't.
01:00By which I mean the locals at my pub who are always bringing me stuff to bend.
01:05Is it a train set?
01:07So join us and our excitable crew.
01:13Who will capture our endeavours.
01:15That was epic.
01:17As we create.
01:19Make.
01:20That feels like a terrible thing we've just done.
01:22Repair.
01:23So it's never worked.
01:24Not in my lifetime.
01:25And repurpose.
01:26Wow.
01:27In my shed load of ideas.
01:28What do you think?
01:29This is just brilliant.
01:30Here I am.
01:31Apparently driving for pure pleasure through the glorious Wiltshire countryside in my Mini.
01:37Actually, and despite the vacant expression, I'm thinking about one of those little problems that really bother me.
01:52The weekly shop.
01:53And what a senseless waste of life that is.
01:57Because you drive to the supermarket, you park your car, you go and find a trolley, you take your trolley round the supermarket, you put all your shopping in it, then you go to the till and you unload the shopping again so you can pay for it and then it gets put into bags and then you put the bags back in the trolley.
02:26Then you wheel the trolley back to the car park and you take the bags out of the trolley and you put them in your car and then, unless you're a blight on society, you go and put the trolley away in the trolley parking place, then you drive home, then you unload the bags and then you put it all in your house.
02:41I mean, for a start it's unenvironmental because we're told we're not supposed to use our cars for short local shopping journeys and you use all these bags and these are plastic and that is BAD.
02:54Despite bag charges and reusable bags for life, we still use over 400 million single-use plastic bags per year and make lots of shopping trips in our cars.
03:06Something needs to be done and we have an idea.
03:13What if we got rid of the need for bags and cars when we go shopping?
03:18The answer could be surprisingly simple. Combine one of my favourite things, the bicycle, with one of my least favourite things, the shopping trolley.
03:28And to make the world's first supermarket trolley bike, I'm going to need these two.
03:35My engineer, Simi.
03:37So I've got this plan.
03:39Who collects vintage socks.
03:41We'll heat it up a little bit to anneal it and then we'll hammer it out.
03:45And the incomprehensible Tony the tool.
03:48That's canny far, that.
03:50Who's good with wood.
03:53And always ready with a power tool.
03:56And of course our up-for-anything crew.
03:59Woo!
04:00Who are also along for the ride.
04:02Sorry Lottie.
04:03So here is the supermarket trolley.
04:07We've also got a couple of bicycles that I've recovered from the recycling centre.
04:11And we've got to combine the two such that you ride your supermarket trolley to the supermarket, around it and back out again without getting off.
04:23It's quite a challenge because A, this is surprisingly heavy.
04:26And as we know, supermarket trolleys do not steer.
04:31So I've heard.
04:32I've never actually driven one.
04:33Let me have a go.
04:35This is completely...
04:37It's random.
04:38We can tell he never ever shopped in his life.
04:41Obviously normally my butler does the shopping so I've got no idea how a supermarket trolley happens.
04:45How it works.
04:47Could you make it a sidecar?
04:49I hadn't thought of that, I'll be honest.
04:51There's a good reason.
04:52Yeah, it's going to be a bit too wide.
04:54Why?
04:55Have you ever ridden something with a sidecar?
04:56Yeah.
04:57It's very odd.
05:01Where's the break?
05:04Nice idea, Tony, but we can eliminate it.
05:07We gather around the whiteboard for one of Simi's excellent engineering drawings.
05:12So in my head, that is our trolley.
05:16Axle.
05:18Some kind of pivot from this point, anywhere between here and here.
05:22Going back up to our frame, which will be seat, post, however that's attached.
05:31So you've got your pedals, and then your back wheel.
05:35The clever bit will be that pivot there, whether it's underneath the axle, or somewhere back here.
05:44I'll just turn this upside down, because we can, and it will stand up.
05:47So in effect, that's chopped off there, so the trolley is in effect sitting on here.
05:56Yes.
05:57So the trolley can do...
05:59Ah!
06:00So this is just an elaborate steering mechanism.
06:03Do we have to ride it upside down?
06:05Only in Australia.
06:08It's fantastic.
06:10You get on this outside your house, or in your garage, or your shed, or whatever,
06:14you set off, and you don't get off again until you're back at your house with your shopping.
06:19If your house is the right shape, you could ride it into your kitchen.
06:23Right.
06:24Cup of tea.
06:25And when I say a cup of tea, I of course mean a pint of beer.
06:33In a very nice pub I know.
06:35Morning!
06:37And I know it's very nice, because it's my pub.
06:40And my regular customers know that I'm always up for taking a look at their broken odds and sods,
06:45as I have a bit of a reputation for mending stuff.
06:47And sure enough, no sooner have I sat down with Sim than local Amy turns up with a precious family heirloom.
06:58Hello.
06:59Hello.
07:00Are you Amy?
07:01I am.
07:03Ta-da!
07:04Is it a train set?
07:05It is.
07:06Oh, do sit down and be prepared to sit down for a long time.
07:10This is far too old to be yours, he says diplomatically, because this is from the fifties.
07:15Yes, it is my dad's.
07:18What is wrong with it?
07:19The transformer seems to be the problem.
07:25It smokes after it's done a couple of rounds.
07:28Does it?
07:29Oh.
07:30So you've set it up?
07:31Not for about ten years or more.
07:35And why now, suddenly, have you decided?
07:37Dad turned 75 this year, so I thought it might be quite a nice thing
07:42to reinstate his childhood train set.
07:46Does he know you're doing this?
07:47No, he doesn't.
07:48So if we fail, we can just...
07:52I have to admit this is slightly my specialism,
07:55mending toys and especially toy trains.
07:58So this is post 1959, I know that by the coupling, but the track I know is from the late fifties,
08:05because this is the first series of track that Tryang made.
08:08Oh, wow.
08:09Quite possibly in the Richmond factory before they moved to Margate.
08:14I get all the girls.
08:15That is the 060 Jinty.
08:20Okay.
08:21These are Tryang trains, which later became Tryang, Hornby and then Hornby.
08:25Today's Hornby railways are actually directly descended from these,
08:28not the Hornby of Liverpool.
08:30Oh, yes, that's the automatic hopper, so that goes over a little line side thing
08:33and then drops the coal out.
08:35This will probably be largely a stripping clean job.
08:39What we ought to do first, Simi, is find out what's wrong with that,
08:42because nothing will happen without that.
08:44The Transformers smokes, or did last time you plugged it in?
08:47Did last time I plugged it in.
08:48Did you unplug it immediately or did you run around going,
08:51oh my God, it's smoking?
08:52I unplugged it immediately.
08:53Excellent. So you may have saved the windings.
08:55By the way, the other thing that's very, very encouraging about this
08:58is your motion work is intact.
09:00That little bracket is intact. They often break.
09:03Okay.
09:04And so I think your father took very good care of this.
09:07Right.
09:08We are going to plug in the transformer.
09:13For those of you who don't know, the transformer takes the mains voltage AC,
09:17transforms it into a safe 12 volt DC,
09:20so that it doesn't kill you when you put your fingers on the rails,
09:23and then that goes through this control box,
09:25which is basically a rheostat, and that controls the speed of the train.
09:29Right, so if you plug that in and it doesn't go bang or burst into flames,
09:33we can then check the output of those, which should be 12 volts DC, shouldn't it?
09:37It should be. Should we go for it?
09:38Go for it.
09:39Bang! Bang!
09:42Is it humming?
09:44Yes, it is.
09:45Right, 12 volts DC.
09:47DC.
09:4814.5, 14.6, it's about 14 volts.
09:51That's about right, because there'll be a little bit of loss in here.
09:54If there's any kind of short in that, which would short that, which would make that probably smoke.
10:00Now we're going to see if this, which is the train speed controller works.
10:04Happy?
10:05Yes, I'll hold the probes.
10:07I'll be the quick reacting switch.
10:10Hang on, hang on, hang on.
10:12Okay, so your IC switch and viewing display.
10:16If it starts to smoke, I will turn it off.
10:20Yes, we've got an output.
10:21So you've got 14 volts.
10:22Turn the knob.
10:24Just seeing if that's getting warm.
10:26There you go.
10:27It works.
10:28Yeah, so if I now take those two wires and apply them to the two sides of the locomotives' electric motor,
10:35we might see some life.
10:37You ready?
10:41Excellent.
10:42That's remarkable.
10:43God, you're good.
10:44Given the amount of dirt in there.
10:48What was that?
10:49A pigeon.
10:52That is more than a pigeon.
10:54A crow's **** on the train set.
10:57I love my arm.
11:00Oh, God.
11:02Absolute ****.
11:03The update is that the transformer and the rear stat works, but the train set is now covered in guano, and so is Amy's arm.
11:13But it's a small price to pay, and it is considered good luck in some circles for a bird to crap on your head, isn't it?
11:19So they say.
11:20So they say.
11:21You find us deep in Wiltshire, in the middle of a groundbreaking engineering project to solve both the environmental issues and inconvenience of the weekly shop.
11:41By joining together a bike and a trolley, which we are in the middle of dismantling.
11:48Look what I've found.
11:50Conveniently discarded at the back of my shed, I happened upon some wheels, which are just the right size.
11:55Check it under and see.
11:57That way I reckon.
11:59Oh, that's almost bespoke.
12:02That is absolutely brilliant.
12:04Just cut these, these.
12:06I'd weld it on first.
12:08Should we do that?
12:09Let's do that.
12:10Before we weld anything together, we're going to have to strip both our trolley and our bike of anything not strictly necessary.
12:18I think we'll have a montage here with some slightly twee doing music from a free music library somewhere.
12:25Tony and I use brute force.
12:28Wall.
12:30Dispose.
12:32This bit can go as well.
12:34And a hammer to get rid of that child seat.
12:40Job done.
12:42While Simi preps the bike's headstock, ready to see if it will fit nicely onto the trolley.
12:47So that's about the right height.
12:49And with our three-wheeled prototype beginning to resemble Simi's drawing, I think we've just about had enough of this twee music.
12:57So if we cut this off, mount that vertical.
13:02Does this need to be vertical?
13:03This needs to be vertical because when you ride a two-wheeled bicycle, when you go around a bend, you lean, and you have a thing called rake and trail, which is basically the distance between the centre of that and the centre of the pivot, and that is at an angle.
13:18But it doesn't want to be at an angle on something with two wheels at the front, otherwise when you turn, one wheel will be trying to lift off the ground, so that needs to be vertical.
13:26If we put a plate on here, because all this is very strong, and we attach the fork straight to that plate, because these trolleys, they're designed to hold a lot of weight.
13:36They are a full weekly shop and up to two children.
13:40Beg yes.
13:41Are you confident of where the plate should go? Well, the box section.
13:44I'm going to go and cut some box section now.
13:47We'll measure that and get those in, and we'll cut the headstock off.
13:56Happy?
13:57Yes. Do you want me to stand on the other end to keep it stable?
13:59Just mind your eye of everybody.
14:01This box section, cut from Simi's old barbecue, will form a frame that the bike's fork will be welded onto.
14:15Right, none more of that.
14:17Simi's angle grinding with his shorts on is slightly not HSE.
14:23No, it isn't, so please remember to wear the appropriate protective equipment if you're making a trolley bike at home.
14:28Right, the next thing, I think, is we cut this.
14:32Yeah.
14:34But you haven't got any goggles on, so don't get anywhere near there.
14:36Do you want me to put some goggles?
14:37Yeah, put some goggles on.
14:41Right, don't mind my eyes then.
14:45We're cutting the bike frame so that we can establish the essential geometry between the headstock and the trolley,
14:51and also so that there will be room for me to pedal.
14:56Turn it over.
14:58Right, nice and solid.
14:59Yeah.
15:00That feels like a terrible thing we've just done.
15:09What, chop a bicycle at?
15:10Yeah.
15:11It's only not.
15:12We're going to make it better though.
15:14Yeah.
15:16Will our cut down bicycle pivot correctly with our stripped back trolley?
15:20That is, again, almost too good to be true.
15:25You lose a little bit of trolley space, but let's be honest, we're men, we're going to go and buy three bottles of beer, a tin of beans and sausages and some bread.
15:34That is very true.
15:35What, that you could fit in a shopping basket?
15:38Yeah.
15:39Or just in your backpack, I mean, or your pockets even.
15:41Why are we doing this?
15:43Because it's fun.
15:44Okay.
15:50Yes, innovation is fun, but it's also very hard work.
16:11The summer sun beats down.
16:13All this grafting makes for a very hot and sweaty team.
16:18So I'm wondering if there's a way to cool down that doesn't involve expensive air conditioning or electric fans, but perhaps something a little more homemade.
16:28It's very hot today.
16:29It's about 28 degrees outside.
16:31It's about, well, up to 10 degrees hotter in the workshop and we've been getting very sweaty.
16:36So what if you could make cooling clothing?
16:39We have these packs.
16:41These are existing commercially available chili bin packs.
16:44And we also have some sodium polyacrylate, which is basically what goes in here mixed with water and it improves its ability to hold cold.
16:56So what we're going to do, and by we I mean Sinny, because he can operate the sewing machine expertly, is make a t-shirt for me.
17:03We're also going to make Tony a pair of cooling pants.
17:07We're going to use two pairs of these waterproof pants, one inside the other, skilfully sewn together by Sinny, so that the whole thing can be filled with the chili medium, which is what you're going to make.
17:23Tony, is this making any sense?
17:26Unfortunately, yes.
17:27OK.
17:28This is not just about humiliating Tony.
17:32We're trying to do our bit to fight global warming by finding lo-fi, low-energy ways to stay cool.
17:39As there are quite fortuitously six of these little ones, could I have a six pack?
17:46Other way round.
17:47Is it?
17:48Is it?
17:49I know you've never seen one before.
17:51Yeah, well, I've not.
17:54Not in the mirror, I haven't, no.
17:56So, three there.
17:58No.
17:59No.
18:01Two, two, two.
18:02Yes.
18:03What?
18:04Two, two, two.
18:05That's it.
18:06Oh, yes.
18:07That looks like action man's torso.
18:09Yeah.
18:10So, Sinny gets to work sewing individual pockets for the ready-made ice packs to sit in.
18:15Come on, shove it in.
18:18Yeah, that's good.
18:19Keep going.
18:20There you go.
18:21Shall I hold that up and we can see what the effect of the six pack is?
18:25Excellent.
18:27That's pretty good.
18:28Excellent.
18:29I look like one of those, you know, cartoon superheroes.
18:33Right, so next, Sinny is going to incorporate these larger packs into the shoulders and then we'll put it in the fridge.
18:40But first, we need to fill Tony's pants with our homemade cooling gel.
18:44Right, so Tony and I will make up the gel.
18:47It's ten grams per litre, which doesn't sound like enough, but apparently that's right according to the instructions.
18:53Sodium polyacrylate, also known as Waterlock.
18:56Shall we do one litre first and get a bit of chalk?
18:59It's often used in nappies and fire retardants because it can absorb up to 300 times its weight in water.
19:07Wow.
19:08Is it turning into...
19:09Okay, look at that.
19:10...really fat.
19:11It's used in cool packs because the water gets trapped inside the gel, reducing the rate at which it heats up.
19:18It looks a bit like crushed ice, doesn't it?
19:20Yeah, it looks like a slushie.
19:22So it stays cooler for longer than plain ice.
19:26It's fantastic.
19:28Now we've mixed up the cooling gel, it's time for Sinny to sew individual pocketed channels into Tony's massive pants to accommodate all the sodium polyacrylate mixture.
19:39This is wilder stuff.
19:43There's something slightly unsavoury about it.
19:45Your pants are also becoming very heavy, Tony.
19:51But...
20:00What are you doing to me?
20:04So, we're ready to put our cool clothing in the fridge.
20:08We'll leave them in there for an hour, put them on and see how good we look and how good we feel.
20:14And just a few hours later, enough time for a walk, a pint and two shakes of a lamb's tail.
20:21Right, men.
20:22It's time to see if our hand-sewn cooling clothing actually works.
20:27I'm going to go first, Tony, if that's okay.
20:30Ooh, yes, it feels cold.
20:36Just put your hand on there.
20:38Ooh.
20:40That's going to be nice to wear.
20:42Ooh.
20:43Right, I'm going to disappear into the lav and then emerge to gasps of amazement.
20:49Very cold.
20:57I've got to say...
21:00It's so realistic!
21:04That's great!
21:05I've got to say, okay, apart from that we've got the six-pack a bit low...
21:10All right.
21:12But the sensation is fantastic.
21:15You look very broad.
21:17It's really good, these bits especially, because they cool down the sort of base of your neck.
21:21It's really nice.
21:23It does square your shoulders off as well.
21:25Doesn't it just?
21:27How cold is it? Is it comfortable?
21:30It's... yeah, it is actually.
21:32There's no... there are no sharp edges or anything.
21:35I'm definitely cooler.
21:37I'm cooling down, even as I stand here talking to you.
21:40And when you touch it, do you actually think you've got abs?
21:43So you're convincing yourself, it's like...
21:45Yeah.
21:47Just oozing sex appeal.
21:49And then we decided it was time for Tony to put his pants on.
22:00Oh, my God.
22:04I'm never going to keep these on.
22:09Come on, Tony.
22:14Do I have to?
22:16You're going to fall down.
22:17I'm falling down.
22:22I'm falling down.
22:24I'm falling down.
22:26I feel like I've got some sort of disease.
22:31Are you cooler?
22:33Yeah, cooler, but mainly my thighs.
22:35It's all dropped down.
22:37It looks like you've had a prolapse of every single organ.
22:40They're coming down.
22:42Feel it. It's not right.
22:44No!
22:46It's horrible!
22:48Okay.
22:50I think you should sit down, Tony, so we don't have to look at that.
22:54I wish to be able to see less well.
23:02What can we conclude from that?
23:04As an idea, I'm not so sure about the pants, but the shirt, I think as an idea, it works.
23:09If these were a bit thinner and they were more evenly distributed, chuck your T-shirt in the fridge the night before, get up, slip it on, walk out, ice cool.
23:21Aw, Sleekin!
23:22Sorry, James.
23:23It's squeezing on me back!
23:24Oh my God!
23:25Right, I think that's the end of that scene.
23:42I do hope so.
23:43Welcome back to Wiltshire, where we've been tackling climate change by inventing cool clothing and welding together a supermarket trolley and a bike, obviously.
24:03And now we're about to attempt to repair a broken train set as a surprise for Amy's dad's 75th birthday.
24:13No pressure then.
24:15Is everybody ready?
24:17Shall I speak?
24:19Yeah.
24:20Right, the toy trains have been cleansed of bird poo by a very low-paid junior researcher.
24:27We're now ready to start mending them, which in this instance isn't very difficult because I can reveal that I had almost exactly this train set.
24:37In fact, I still have it.
24:38It had these two locomotives, the 060 Ginty and the 462 Princess Elizabeth.
24:45I also have the guard's van, this green coal truck.
24:51I have that flat one.
24:53I have one of these green ones.
24:55And I did have one of these blood and custard coaches, but my big sister trod on it in about 1969, and I haven't seen her since.
25:05Nevertheless, there is a joy in mending things, and there's a particular joy in mending these trains because actually over the years I've mended hundreds of them.
25:14They're very, very simple mechanisms.
25:17All of these trying locomotives were designed to come apart by the removal of one screw down the chimney on these early ones, and now that will pop out.
25:27There it is.
25:28So problems with the motor tend to be that the magnet becomes weak.
25:34A good test is if you put the motor down and put your screwdriver on it, I can sort of pick the motor up with the screwdriver, which is a rough-and-ready test.
25:42But it would be remiss of us not to use the remagnetiser.
25:49Sting, da-da-da, the remagnetiser.
25:52It's in here.
25:54It's a remarkable thing.
25:56I do like the use of the Meccano.
25:58Yes, it's Meccano-themed.
25:59This was made by a man called Ronald Dodds, who's a toy train mender.
26:04It's not something you like you to have lying around in the home, to be honest.
26:08In fact, I've never met anybody else in the world, apart from Ronald Dodds, who has a toy train magnet remagnetiser.
26:15Using this compass, you establish the north pole of the magnet.
26:19This isn't absolutely crucial, but it means that the locomotive will run in the correct direction.
26:24I meant to say, actually, you shouldn't put anything like your watch or your mobile phone anywhere near this.
26:31Or really expensive cameras.
26:33Or your expensive cameras.
26:34Are you ready for remagnetising?
26:38Makes quite a loud noise, so brace yourself.
26:43That's it.
26:45These are basically coils with soft iron bars in them, and they become a magnet when you apply the current.
26:51And that remagnetises, because it's touching it, the magnet in the motor.
26:55The magnet in the motor is essential to its operation.
26:57You can see, look, they're stuck to it now.
26:59And doing my screwdriver test.
27:07I don't know how that's happened.
27:08Maybe not.
27:09Well, I've somehow demagnetised it, which means it...
27:13Hang on.
27:15Did I put it in the wrong way around?
27:16I think you did.
27:17Yeah, but that should just magnetise it in the other direction.
27:20Well...
27:23How can I have killed a magnet?
27:25Let's try that again.
27:29That's the one.
27:30That's the one.
27:32Yes.
27:34So the screwdriver test works.
27:36It's back.
27:37It's back.
27:38Now let's test the remagnetised motor for real.
27:42Could you give me some juice on the controller?
27:44Yes.
27:45Look at that.
27:54Finally, an electromotive force.
27:56That's nice.
27:57I like the little sparks.
27:59And with the sparks flying, it's time for a track test.
28:03Okay, Simi, if you could...
28:06Plug in.
28:07Initiate the transformer, please.
28:09The transformer is on.
28:10I can hear it.
28:12The transformer is buzzing.
28:13So here we go.
28:14Are we ready?
28:15I'm going...
28:16I don't want to do this.
28:17Go on.
28:23It wants to go.
28:25And yet it doesn't.
28:27I've got a bad feeling about this repair for some reason.
28:30I don't know why.
28:31It's just...
28:33I should be...
28:34I've done this dozens of times.
28:35It doesn't work.
28:38Time to run some diagnostics.
28:40First, we check the power.
28:42We've got 14 volts there.
28:44So we eliminate that.
28:46Then we check the wiring.
28:48That connection is good.
28:50So there's no short.
28:52Then clean the track.
28:53And clean the wheels.
28:57Sometimes you get sort of invisible dirt.
29:01And finally...
29:03We've had a bit of a fiddle around and we isolated the problem to the controller, the rear stat.
29:08We wiggled it and wiggled it and hopefully cleaned it up.
29:11So it's just dirt and it needs cleaning like most things in life.
29:14And it's not really surprising after all those years in the loft.
29:18What is it that Benjamin Franklin said?
29:20He who lives by hope alone will die farting.
29:28Did he say that?
29:29Apparently so.
29:30Right.
29:31That is running.
29:32It's buzzing.
29:33Here we go.
29:35Look at that!
29:36Yes!
29:38That's great!
29:39That is fantastic.
29:41That's very pleasing.
29:42I hope Amy's father...
29:43How old is he?
29:4475 and a half.
29:46Present it to them and they'll go,
29:48Wow, that's amazing.
29:49Take it home and put it back in the loft again for another half century.
29:55Excellent!
29:56Well, I enjoyed that.
30:02But as much as I'd like to play with Dave's train set all day, I have more pressing matters over in my pub.
30:09We're trying to invent new pub games to entertain the customers so they'll buy more beer and eat more food.
30:16And today we have invented a garden game based on an old English idiom.
30:24This is called two birds, one stone.
30:27Sim, if you'd like to activate the mechanism.
30:30We fashioned two birds out of thin plywood, cut out a small round hole in each and mounted them onto a pivot system.
30:38As you can see, the two birds swing, they've got holes in them.
30:41The idea is that you have to throw a stone at the point where the holes line up and it goes through both birds.
30:47And then you win a prize.
30:50That's it.
30:51That's the tweet.
30:53Right, who's going first?
30:54Tony?
30:55Yep.
30:56There's a jug there full of carefully selected pebbles.
31:00We need to establish the throwing distance.
31:03Oh.
31:05That's good.
31:06It's canny far, that.
31:07No, that's...
31:08Well, it can't be too easy.
31:09I don't think it's going to be easy.
31:10It's there in line with the...
31:11I don't think it's going to be easy.
31:12Get three shots each.
31:13Okay, Simi, activate the two birds mechanism.
31:15Do you think it's overarm or underarm?
31:18I'm going to go underarm.
31:19Okay.
31:21Rubbish.
31:23See, it's harder than you think.
31:26Nope.
31:28Hands.
31:32Are you aiming for the hole?
31:33Oh, that wasn't.
31:34That was very low.
31:35Timmy, do you want to go?
31:36I'll activate the birds.
31:37Because he's selecting his stones very carefully.
31:39He's hidden the good stones at the bottom.
31:45Rubbing.
31:48Don't break it.
31:51Oh!
31:52One bird.
31:53This is one of those games that...
31:54I mean, it doesn't really mean anything, but once it starts, it sort of becomes very important, doesn't it?
32:01Like so many things in life, timing is everything.
32:04I think it starts from when you lift your arms, you've got to...
32:08There it is.
32:10It's about the rhythm of the throw versus the bird's movement.
32:14About understanding space and time.
32:18Oh!
32:20Or it's about throwing a stone at some birds.
32:23Did that go through?
32:25I think that went through.
32:27It was a bit of an in-off, but it did go through.
32:29So you are the first person ever to score at Two Birds, One Stone.
32:34Congratulations.
32:35Thank you very much.
32:36It's 1-0-0 to Sim.
32:38With only one stone through the hole, we invite members of the crew and a few locals to play along.
32:43Oh!
32:46Oh, that was very close.
32:48What's this game called?
32:49Two Birds, One Stone.
32:50Cools it.
32:51I'm cool!
32:52I can't do it!
32:53I obviously can't!
32:55We even let cameraman Will have a go.
32:58I'll film it.
33:00What does this button do?
33:02Rubbish.
33:04Where are you from, sir?
33:05Norway.
33:06Norway?
33:08Norway, nil pas.
33:10Turns out to kill two birds in this game takes 12 members of the crew, three locals,
33:15some bloke from Norway and about 500 stones before...
33:20We eventually hit the target.
33:23Yay!
33:26But it's very satisfying when it's achieved.
33:29That was...
33:30That was an almost perfect shot.
33:33So it's a fantastic game, actually.
33:35I'm amazed no one's ever thought of it.
33:37Every pub in England will have one of these soon.
33:42And that's a promise.
33:50In Wiltshire, we're back in my pub.
33:53And after a lot of delays, cancellations and derailments,
33:56Sim and I are now ready to hand back this repaired and perfectly running train set
34:00that Amy brought us when she heard that the Royal Oak is a pub of mending.
34:07So, Amy, who brought us this broken train set a few weeks ago,
34:12is now waiting in the bar of the pub with her dad, Dave, who was 75 a couple of months ago.
34:19This is actually his train set.
34:20He apparently hasn't seen it for many, many years.
34:24He certainly hasn't seen it running for probably decades.
34:28And this is meant to be a big, slightly belated birthday surprise for him.
34:34So it will either be very emotional because he loved his train set,
34:38or he's completely forgotten about it and wonders what the hell we're doing.
34:41We're going to find out in about 15 seconds.
34:47They're coming.
34:49There's Amy and there's...
34:50There's Amy.
34:51Dave, her dad. I'd better go up and...
34:54Hello.
34:55Hello.
34:56How are you?
34:57Good, thank you. How are you?
34:58Very well, thank you. You must be Dave.
35:00Right, Mr May.
35:02Happy birthday, belatedly.
35:03Thank you very much.
35:04I gather it was a big one.
35:05We have something over here for you.
35:08Do you recognise it?
35:09I do.
35:10And does it work?
35:12Well, let's find out, sir, if you'd like to take the driver's seat.
35:18Is this the sort of thing that you thought Amy would do for your birthday?
35:22I think Amy's always had an attachment to junk and...
35:30..and really wouldn't throw anything away.
35:34And she's just a hoarder.
35:36And, um...
35:38Whereas, um...
35:40Yeah, I...
35:42I put it away in the loft and forgot about it, really.
35:46Do you think when you get home you'll simply put it back in the loft?
35:49Probably.
35:51OK.
35:52I've got... I've now got a policy where nothing goes in the loft.
35:56Um...
35:57So...
35:58Because if it's in the loft you don't need it, so...
36:00You mean you'll...
36:02Put it in the bin?
36:04No.
36:05No.
36:06But it will be passed on to someone else, yes.
36:08Yeah.
36:09Passed on to the boys.
36:11Well, that wasn't quite the emotional reaction we were hoping for.
36:15But wait till he sees it go.
36:16If you'd like to give it maximum berries forward, sir, which is clockwise, it should.
36:23There you go.
36:24When was the last time you saw that going round?
36:37Forty years.
36:39Really?
36:40Yeah.
36:41It is bringing back memories of my childhood.
36:43And I did spend a lot of time setting it up and going round buying model kits where you used to glue station buildings together.
36:53And, I mean, I honestly felt that I wouldn't see it again, so...
36:58That's more like it, Dave.
37:00Oh, it's just brilliant.
37:01It's just really lovely to see it running after all these years and with the age behind it.
37:07It was actually a pleasure to make it work again because, as we've been saying, there's something about bringing...
37:12Yes.
37:13...a train set back to life because you know that you're effectively resurrecting somebody's childhood and the joy of childhood and the excitement.
37:20Because back when we were young, oh God, here I go, the train set in a new bicycle, those were the top presents.
37:26The iPhones of the day, weren't they?
37:28Yes, exactly.
37:29You couldn't have a more exciting thing.
37:31And there it is.
37:32And it still works.
37:33It was future-proofed.
37:34Yeah.
37:35Gosh, am I going to get a bill now?
37:37Yes.
37:38But it's okay, we're going to do it in 1959 money, so it's two and six.
37:46Thank you, James.
37:48Enjoy.
37:50And now, from one mode of transport to another, I set off on a bike ride across the countryside as I return to the problem of unenvironmental supermarket trips.
38:08Except, this isn't just a normal bike. This is a trolley bike. The perfect merging of two engineering miracles.
38:19This is the weirdest thing in the world.
38:21Expertly combined by me, Simi and Tony to create something that outshines both. It offers the ease and joy of riding a bike straight to your destination.
38:33With the convenience of a trolley ready and primed to receive a shed-load of shopping.
38:40Ah!
38:42And in the knowledge that you can do it in one go without ever leaving the saddle.
38:47Sorry, I can't stop.
38:49And here it is, in all its glory, on its inaugural ride to a well-known supermarket.
38:56Oh, sorry.
38:57Morning.
38:58You missed, didn't you?
38:59Yep.
39:00And I'm into the supermarket. I'm still not off my bike.
39:05Will it get through the doors? Yes.
39:08And we're in.
39:13Right.
39:15Errr...
39:16Rice and pasta. Seasonal condiments. I hate that word.
39:21So, it works as a bike.
39:22Warning.
39:23But now let's see how it fares as a trolley.
39:27Crisps and snacks. Here we go.
39:34Peanuts.
39:37Epic.
39:39Oh, look.
39:41Beans and sausages.
39:42It's quite fast, actually. Accelerates very well.
39:57Bit of skid.
39:59Coming left.
40:03Pies!
40:04Chocolate fingers.
40:05Ooh, they're high.
40:06Boop!
40:08This is just brilliant.
40:10I mean, all I'm doing is going for a bike ride, really.
40:11It'll just make shopping pleasurable.
40:13Um, straight line steering is quite good. It's got a good turning circle. It does misbehave slightly in corners. You have to remember about the backpedal brake. So, the geometry may need a little bit of work, but the basic idea is good.
40:26Morning. Morning. And it's proving very popular with happy shoppers. Morning.
40:32Thank you very much.
40:34Thank you so much.
40:36Thank you so much.
40:38Have a good troubles.
40:39Hey, you're right.
40:40Hey.
40:41You're happy.
40:42Hey, you're happy.
40:43Thank you very much.
40:44How can we do that então?
40:45Hi, you're welcome.
40:46Good morning.
40:47Good morning.
40:48Oh my goodness, Fade.
40:49Good morning.
40:50Morning.
40:52Morning.
40:54Good morning.
40:56Morning.
40:58Morning.
40:59Good morning.
41:00Morning.
41:01Time.
41:02Thank you very much.
41:04Thank you so much.
41:05Hey, that's alright.
41:06That's alright.
41:07I'm absolutely stuck in the 1970s.
41:16Need bog roll.
41:26Unfortunately, I never passed my bike trolley proficiency test.
41:31Now all that's left to do is ride this incredible machine to the checkout.
41:36Under the watchful eye of the crew and Mel.
41:41Morning.
41:43Morning.
41:45Oh, no.
41:50I've realised that there's a slight issue with this.
41:53Would you like me to help?
41:54Yes, please.
41:55I'm supposed to do this without getting off the bicycle.
42:05That's all right.
42:06Can I actually, hang on.
42:08No, I can reach things.
42:09Look.
42:10Yep.
42:12Hi.
42:14I'm still on the bike.
42:17I haven't put my feet on the floor.
42:19No, you're fine.
42:20So this does slightly depend on very helpful supermarket staff.
42:26Most people are quite helpful.
42:27They are.
42:28There we are.
42:30And then I pay and then we just put it back in there.
42:32Yes, OK.
42:33Do you like any bags?
42:35No, I would not like any bags, thank you.
42:38Thanks.
42:39I don't need them.
42:40That's good.
42:41Back comes the 4142.
42:42Is that cash or a card?
42:45Of course I don't have cash or a card.
42:47My butler does this.
42:50Do you need me to pay, Jane?
42:51Yes, please.
42:52There we are.
42:53Thanks.
42:54I'll pay you back later.
42:55Thank you very much.
42:56It's been absolutely fantastic.
42:58Bye.
42:59Bye.
43:00Oh.
43:05Still on the bike.
43:06It turns out that this year is the 75th anniversary of the very first shopping trolley being introduced to the UK.
43:2375 years.
43:25And in all that time, no one has thought it could be combined with a bicycle.
43:30And this is brilliant.
43:31You just go for a bike ride and pick up everything you need for a happy existence on the way.
43:35It's excellent.
43:37Every home should have one.
43:40And will.
43:47Having fun?
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