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00:00Hello.
00:02These days I spend more and more time in my Wiltshire home.
00:06And the pub I own.
00:08Thinking about all the big problems in the world.
00:12And some smaller ones that annoy me.
00:16Luckily there's a place I can go to solve them all.
00:20Or at least try.
00:22My shed.
00:24Right.
00:26It's here that I have the tools.
00:28Let's just saw some wood up.
00:30The tea.
00:32And a couple of other highly competent blokes.
00:36Very good. Brace yourself.
00:38Who've agreed to help me rid the world of problems.
00:40Is she getting a ticket out?
00:42Great.
00:44And small.
00:46The cereal has gone soggy.
00:48I'll also have to take on other people's problems.
00:50What is wrong with Peter?
00:52He used to make a sound.
00:54And now he doesn't.
00:56The locals at my pub.
00:58Who are always bringing me stuff to bend.
01:00Is it a train set?
01:02So join us.
01:04And our excitable crew.
01:06Who will capture our endeavours.
01:10That was epic.
01:12As we create.
01:14Make.
01:16That feels like a terrible thing we've just done.
01:18Repair. So it's never worked.
01:20My life time.
01:22And repurpose.
01:24In my shed load of ideas.
01:28What do you think?
01:30This is just brilliant.
01:32What do you think?
01:34What do you think?
01:40Here I am.
01:42Apparently driving for pure pleasure.
01:44Through the glorious Wiltshire countryside.
01:46In my mini.
01:50Actually.
01:52And despite the vacant expression.
01:54I'm thinking about one of those little problems.
01:58That really bother me.
02:04The weekly shop.
02:06And what a senseless waste of life that is.
02:08Because you drive to the supermarket.
02:10You park your car.
02:12You go and find a trolley.
02:14You take your trolley around the supermarket.
02:16You put all your shopping in it.
02:18So you can pay for it.
02:19And then it gets put into bags.
02:20And then you put the bags back in the trolley.
02:22Then you wheel the trolley back to the car park.
02:24And you take the bags out of the trolley.
02:26And you put them in your car.
02:27And then.
02:28Unless you're a blight on society.
02:29You go and put the trolley away.
02:30In the trolley parking place.
02:31Then you drive home.
02:32Then you unload the bags.
02:33And then you put it all in your house.
02:35I mean for a start.
02:37It's un-environmental.
02:38Because we're told.
02:39We're not supposed to use our cars.
02:41For short local shopping journeys.
02:43And you use all these bags.
02:45And these are plastic.
02:46And that is BAD.
02:49Despite bag charges.
02:51And reusable bags for life.
02:53We still use over 400 million.
02:56Single-use plastic bags per year.
02:58And make lots of shopping trips.
03:00In our cars.
03:02Something needs to be done.
03:04And.
03:05We.
03:06Have an idea.
03:08What if we got rid of the need.
03:11For bags and cars.
03:12When we go shopping.
03:14The answer could be surprisingly simple.
03:16Combine.
03:17One of my favourite things.
03:19The bicycle.
03:20With one of my least favourite things.
03:22The shopping trolley.
03:24And to make the world's first supermarket trolley bike.
03:27I'm going to need these two.
03:30My engineer.
03:31Simi.
03:32So I've got this plan.
03:34Who collects vintage socks.
03:36We'll heat it up a little bit.
03:38To anneal it.
03:39And then we'll hammer it out.
03:40And the incomprehensible Tony the tool.
03:43That's canny far that.
03:45Who's good with wood.
03:48And always ready with a power tool.
03:51And of course our up for anything crew.
03:54Woo.
03:55Who are also along for the ride.
03:57Sorry Lottie.
03:58So here is the supermarket trolley.
04:01We've also got a couple of bicycles.
04:03That I've recovered from the recycling centre.
04:06And we've got to combine the two.
04:08Such that you ride your supermarket trolley.
04:12To the supermarket.
04:13Around it.
04:14And back out again.
04:16Without getting off.
04:17It's quite a challenge.
04:18Because A this is surprisingly heavy.
04:20And as we know.
04:22Supermarket trolleys do not.
04:24Steer.
04:25So I've heard.
04:26I've never actually driven one.
04:27Let me have a go.
04:28This.
04:29This is completely.
04:31It's random.
04:32He can tell he never ever shopped in his life.
04:35Obviously normally my butler does the shopping.
04:37So I've got no idea how a supermarket trolley.
04:39How it works.
04:40Could you make it a sidecar?
04:43I hadn't thought of that.
04:44I'll be honest.
04:45It's a good reason.
04:46Yeah.
04:47It's going to be a bit too wide.
04:48Why?
04:49Have you ever ridden something with a sidecar?
04:51Yeah.
04:52It's very odd.
04:56Where's the break?
04:59Nice idea Tony.
05:00But we can eliminate it.
05:02We gather around the whiteboard.
05:04For one of Simi's excellent engineering drawings.
05:07So in my head.
05:09That is our trolley.
05:11Axle.
05:12Yeah.
05:13Some kind of pivot from this point.
05:16Anywhere between here and here.
05:18Going back up to our frame.
05:20Which will be seat.
05:22Post.
05:23However that's attached.
05:25So you've got your pedals.
05:27And then your back wheel.
05:30The clever bit will be that pivot there.
05:33Whether it's underneath the axle.
05:35Or somewhere back here.
05:38I'll just turn this upside down.
05:40Because we can.
05:41And it will stand up.
05:43So in effect.
05:45That's chopped off there.
05:47So the trolley is in effect sitting on here.
05:51Yes.
05:52So the trolley can do.
05:53Ah.
05:54So this is just an elaborate steering mechanism.
05:57Do we have to ride it upside down?
05:59Only in Australia.
06:00It's fantastic.
06:01You get on this.
06:02Outside your house.
06:03Or in your garage.
06:04Or your shed.
06:05Or whatever.
06:06You set off.
06:07And you don't get off again.
06:08Until you're back at your house.
06:09With your shopping.
06:10If your house is the right shape.
06:11You could ride it into your kitchen.
06:12Right.
06:13Cup of tea.
06:14And when I say a cup of tea.
06:15I of course mean a pint of beer.
06:16In a very nice pub I know.
06:17Morning.
06:18And I know it's very nice.
06:19Because it's my pub.
06:20And my regular customers know that I'm always up for taking a look at their broken odds
06:25and sods.
06:26As I have a bit of a reputation for mending stuff.
06:29And sure enough.
06:30No sooner have I sat down with Sim.
06:31Then local Amy turns up with a precious family heirloom.
06:34Hello.
06:35Hello.
06:36Are you Amy?
06:37I am.
06:38Ta-da.
06:39I am.
06:40Ta-da.
06:41I am.
06:42Ta-da.
06:43I am.
06:44Ta-da.
06:45I am.
06:46Ta-da.
06:47Hi.
06:48Hi.
06:49Hi.
06:50Hi.
06:51Hi.
06:52Hi.
06:53Hi.
06:54Hi.
06:55Hi.
06:56Hi.
06:57Hi.
06:58Hi.
06:59Is it a train set?
07:00It is.
07:01Oh, do sit down and be prepared to sit down for a long time.
07:05This is far too old to be yours, he says diplomatically.
07:08Because this is from the fifties.
07:10Ah, yes, it is my dad's.
07:12Er, what is wrong with it?
07:14The transformer, er, seems to be the problem.
07:19That it smokes after it's done a couple of rounds.
07:23Oh, does it?
07:24Oh.
07:25So you've set it up?
07:26Not for about ten years.
07:28years and why now suddenly have you decided dad turned 75 this year so i thought it might be quite
07:36a nice thing to um reinstate his childhood train set does he know you're doing this no he doesn't
07:43so if we fail we can just i have to admit this is slightly my specialism mending toys and
07:51especially toy trains so this is post 1959 i know that by the coupling but the track i know is
07:59from the late 50s because this is the first series of track that trying made quite possibly in the
08:04richmond factory before they moved to margate i get all the girls um that is the 060 jinty okay these
08:15are trying trains which later became trying hornby and then hornby today's hornby railways are actually
08:22directly descended from these not the hornby of liverpool oh yes that's the automatic hopper so
08:26that goes over a little line side thing and then drops the coal out this will probably be largely a
08:33stripping clean job what we ought to do first simi is find out what's wrong with that because nothing
08:38will happen without that the transformer smokes or did last time you plugged it last time i plugged it
08:43in did you unplug it immediately or did you run around going oh my god it's smoking i unplugged it
08:47immediately excellent so you may have saved the windings by the way the other thing that's very
08:52very encouraging about this is your motion work is intact that little bracket is intact they often
08:57break okay and so i think your father took very good care of this right we are going to plug in
09:06the transformer for those of you who don't know the transformer takes the mains voltage ac transforms it
09:12into a safe 12 volt dc so that it doesn't kill you when you put your fingers on the rails
09:18and then that goes through this control box which is basically a rear stat and that controls the
09:22speed of the train right so if you plug that in and it doesn't go bang or burst into flames
09:28we can then check the output of those which should be 12 volts dc shouldn't it it should be
09:32should we go for it yeah correct bang bang is it humming yes it is right 12 volts dc dc
09:4214.5 14.6 it's about 14 volts that's about right because there'll be a little bit of loss in here
09:49if there's any kind of short in that which would short that which would make that probably smoke
09:55now we're going to see if this which is the train speed controller works happy yes i'll hold the
10:00probes i will get i'll be the quick reacting switch hang on hang on hang on okay so your your
10:08ic switch and viewing display if it starts to smoke i will turn it off
10:14yes we've got an output so you've got 14 volts turn the knob
10:19just seeing if that's getting warm there you go it works yeah so if i now take those two wires
10:25and apply them to the two sides of the locomotive's electric motor we might see some life
10:32ready
10:35excellent that's remarkable god you're good given the amount of dirt in there
10:40what was that that's a pigeon that is more than a pigeon the crow's on the train set
10:51i love my arm oh god absolute the update is that the transformer and the rear stat works but the
11:03train set is now covered in guano and so is amy's arm but it's a small price to pay and it is considered
11:10good luck in some circles for a bird to crap on your head isn't it so they say
11:25you find us deep in wiltshire in the middle of a groundbreaking engineering project
11:31to solve both the environmental issues and inconvenience of the weekly shop
11:37by joining together a bike and a trolley which we are in the middle of dismantling
11:43look what i've found conveniently discarded at the back of my shed i happened upon some wheels
11:49which are just the right size chuck it under and that way i reckon
11:54oh that's almost bespoke that is absolutely brilliant just cut these these i'd weld it on first
12:03should we do that let's do that before we weld anything together we're going to have to strip
12:08both our trolley and our bike of anything not strictly necessary i think we'll have a montage here
12:14with some slightly twee doing music from a free music library somewhere tony and i use brute force
12:22wall dispose this bit can go as well and a hammer to get rid of that child seat
12:35job done while simi preps the bike's headstock ready to see if it will fit nicely onto the trolley
12:41so that's about the right height and with our three-wheeled prototype beginning to resemble simi's
12:47drawing i think we've just about had enough of this twee music so if we cut this off mount that
12:55vertical this needs to be vertical this needs to be vertical because when you ride a two-wheel bicycle
13:02when you go around a bend you lean and you have a thing called rake and trail which is basically the
13:09distance between the center of that and the center of the pivot and that is at an angle but it doesn't
13:14want to be at an angle on something with two wheels at the front otherwise when you turn one wheel will
13:17be trying to lift off the ground so that needs to be vertical if we put a plate on here because all
13:23this is very strong and we attach the fork straight to that plate because these trolleys they're designed
13:30to hold a lot of weight they are a full weekly shop and up to two children yes are you confident of
13:36where the plate should go well the box section i'm going to go and cut some box section now we'll measure
13:42that and get those in and we'll cut the headstock off happy yes do you want me to stand on the other
13:53end to keep it stable just mind your eyes everybody this box section cut from simi's old barbecue
14:02will form a frame that the bike's fork will be welded onto all right no more of that simi
14:12angle grinding with his shorts on is slightly not hse no it isn't so please remember to wear the
14:19appropriate protective equipment if you're making a trolley bike at home right the next thing i i think
14:25is we cut this yeah but you haven't got any goggles on so don't get anywhere you want me to put some
14:31goggles yeah put some goggles on thank you right don't mind my eyes then
14:40we're cutting the bike frame so that we can establish the essential geometry between the
14:44headstock and the trolley and also so that there will be room for me to pedal
14:50turn it over right nice and solid that feels like a terrible thing you've just done what chop a
15:04bicycle it yeah it's only now we're gonna make it better though okay will our cut down bicycle pivot
15:12correctly with our stripped back trolley that is again almost too good to be true
15:17you lose a little bit of trolley space but let's be honest we're men we're going to go and buy three
15:25bottles of beer a tin of beans and sausages and some bread it's very true what that you could fit in
15:31a shopping basket yeah or just in your backpack i mean or your pockets even why are we doing this
15:37because it's fun okay
15:47yes innovation is fun but it's also very hard work the summer sun beats down all this grafting makes for
16:09a very hot and sweaty team so i'm wondering if there's a way to cool down that doesn't involve
16:16expensive air conditioning or electric fans but perhaps something a little more
16:21homemade it's very hot today it's about 28 degrees outside it's about well up to 10 degrees hotter in
16:28the workshop and we've been getting very sweaty so what if you could make cooling clothing we have these
16:35packs these are existing commercially available chili bin packs and we also have some sodium polyacrylate which
16:43is basically what goes in here mixed with water and it improves its ability to
16:49hold cold so what we're going to do and by we i mean simi because he can operate the sewing machine
16:55expertly is make a t-shirt for me we're also going to make tony a pair of cooling pans we're going to use
17:03two pairs of these waterproof pants one inside the other skillfully sewn together by simi so that the
17:12whole thing can be filled with the chili medium which is what you're going to make tony is this making
17:19any sense yeah unfortunately yes okay this is not just about humiliating tony we're trying to do our bit
17:29to fight global warming by finding lo-fi low energy ways to stay cool as there are quite fortuitously six
17:38of these little ones could i have a six pack all the way around is it there's that i know you've never
17:45seen one yeah well i've not not in the mirror i haven't no so three there no no no no two two two
17:57yes what two two that's it oh yes that looks like action man's torso yeah
18:03so simi gets to work sewing individual pockets for the ready-made ice packs to sit in come shove it in
18:13yeah that's good there you go shall i hold that up and we can see what the effect of the six pack
18:19is excellent that's pretty good excellent i look like one of those you know cartoon superheroes
18:28right so next simi is going to incorporate these larger packs into the shoulders
18:33and then we'll put it in the fridge but first we need to fill tony's pants with our homemade cooling
18:38gel right so tony and i will make up the gel it's 10 grams per liter which doesn't sound like enough but
18:45apparently that's right according to the instructions sodium polyacrylate also known as water lock
18:52should we do one liter first and get a bit of chalk is often used in nappies and fire retardants because
18:57it can absorb up to 300 times its weight in water wow is it turning into okay look at that it's used in
19:06cool packs because the water gets trapped inside the gel reducing the rate of which it heats up
19:12it looks a bit like um crushed ice doesn't it yeah it looks like a slushie so it stays cooler for longer
19:19than plain ice it's fantastic now we've mixed up the cooling gel it's time for simi to sew individual
19:27pocketed channels into tony's massive pants to accommodate all the sodium polyacrylate mixture
19:34this is wilder stuff there's something slightly unsavoury about it your pants are also becoming
19:41very heavy tony
19:42tony but what are you doing to me
19:58so we're ready to put our cool clothing in the fridge we'll leave them in there for an hour put them
20:04on and see how good we look and how good we feel and just a few hours later enough time for a walk
20:12a pint and two shakes of a lamb's tail right men it's time to see if our hand-sewn cooling clothing
20:20actually works i'm going to go first tony if that's okay oh yes it feels cold
20:31just put your hand on there oh that's going to be nice to wear oh right i'm going to disappear into
20:39the lav and then emerge to gasps of amazement very cold
20:51i've got to say
20:55it's so realistic
20:56i've got to say okay apart from that we've got the six pack a bit low all right but the sensation
21:08is fantastic you look very broad but it's really good this these bits especially because they cool
21:14down the sort of base of your neck it's it's really nice it does square your shoulders off as well doesn't
21:19it just how cold is it is it comfortable it's yeah it is actually there's there's no there are
21:28no sharp edges or anything i'm definitely cooler i'm cooling down even as i stand here talking to
21:34you and when you touch it do you actually think you've got abs so you're convincing yourself it's like
21:39yeah just oozing sex appeal
21:50and then we decided it was time for tony to put his pants on oh my god
21:59i'm never gonna keep these on
22:00come on
22:03come on tony
22:08do i have to
22:11they're gonna fall down
22:21i feel like i've got some sort of disease
22:23are you cooler cooler but mainly my thighs it's all dropped down it looks like you've had a prolapse
22:32of every single organ they're coming down feel it it's not right no no it's horrible okay
22:45i think you should sit down tony so we don't have to look at that
22:47i wish to be able to see less well um what can we conclude from that as an idea
23:00i'm not so sure about the pants but the shirt i think there's an idea it works
23:04if these are a bit thinner and they were more evenly distributed
23:09chuck your t-shirt in the fridge the night before get up slip it on walk out ice cool
23:17oh it's leaking
23:25sorry james it's squeezing on me back
23:35right i think that's the end of that scene i do hope so
23:47welcome back to wiltshire where we've been tackling climate change by inventing cool clothing
23:55and welding together a supermarket trolley and a bike obviously
24:00and now we're about to attempt to repair a broken train set as a surprise for amy's dad's 75th birthday
24:07no pressure then is everybody ready shall i speak
24:15right the toy trains have been cleansed of bird poo by a very low-paid junior researcher we're now
24:22ready to start mending them which in this instance isn't very difficult because
24:26i can reveal that i had almost exactly this train set in fact i still have it it had these two locomotives
24:35the 060 gt and the 462 princess elizabeth i also have the guards van
24:44this green coal truck i have that flat one i have one of these green ones and i did have
24:51one of these blood and custard coaches but my big sister trod on it in about 1969
24:58and i haven't seen her since nevertheless there is a joy in mending things and there's a particular joy
25:04in mending these trains because actually over the years i've mended hundreds of them
25:08they're very very simple mechanisms all of these trying locomotives were designed to come apart by the
25:14removal of one screw down the chimney on these early ones and now that will pop out there it is
25:24so problems with the motor tend to be that the magnet becomes weak a good test is if you put the
25:31motor down and put your screwdriver on it i can sort of pick the motor up with the screwdriver which is
25:36a rough and ready test but it would be remiss of us not to use the remagnetizer
25:45sting the remagnetizer it's in here it's a remarkable thing i do like the uh the use of
25:52the meccano yes it's meccano themed this was made by a man called ronald dodds who's a toy train
25:59mender it's not something you like you to have lying around in the home to be honest in fact i've never
26:04met anybody else in the world apart from ronald dodds who has a toy train magnet remagnetizer using
26:10this compass you establish the north pole of the magnet this isn't absolutely crucial but it means
26:16that the locomotive will run in the correct direction i meant to say actually you shouldn't put anything
26:22like your watch or your mobile phone anywhere near this expensive cameras all your expensive cameras
26:29are you ready for remagnetizing makes quite a loud noise to brace yourself
26:38that's it these are basically coils with soft iron bars in them and they become a magnet when you apply
26:45the current and that remagnetizes because it's touching it the magnet in the motor the magnet in
26:50the motor is essential to its operation you can see look they're stuck to it now and doing my screwdriver test
26:59i don't know how that's happened well i've somehow demagnetized it which means it
27:08hang on did i put it in the wrong way around right i think you did yeah but that should just
27:13magnetize it in the other direction okay well
27:18how can i have killed a magnet let's try that again that's the one that's the one
27:26yes so the screwdriver test works it's back it's back now let's test the remagnetized motor for real
27:37could you give me some juice on the controller yes look at that
27:42finally an electromotive force that's nice how about the little sparks and with the sparks flying
27:56it's time for a track test okay simmy if you could plug in initiate the transformer please transformer is
28:05buzzing so here we go are we ready i'm going i don't want to do this go on
28:18it wants to go and yet it doesn't i've got a bad feeling about this repair for some reason i don't
28:25know why it's just oh i should be i've done this dozens of times it doesn't work
28:31time to run some diagnostics first we check the power we've got 14 volts there so we eliminate
28:39that then we check the wiring that connection is good so there's no short then clean the track
28:50and clean the wheels sometimes you get sort of invisible dirt and finally we've had a bit of a
28:58fiddle around and we isolated the problem to the controller the rear stat we wiggled it and wiggled
29:03it and hopefully cleaned it up so it's just dirt and it needs cleaning like most things in life and
29:09it's not really surprising after all those years in the loft what is it that um benjamin franklin said
29:16he who lives by hope alone will die farting
29:19did you say that apparently so right that is running it's buzzing here we go
29:32that's great that is fantastic that's very pleasing i hope amy's father how old is he 75 and a half
29:39you know present it to them and they'll go wow that's amazing take it home and put it back in the loft
29:45again for another half century excellent very good well i enjoyed that
29:57but as much as i'd like to play with dave's train set all day i have more pressing matters over in my pub
30:04we're trying to invent new pub games to entertain the customers so they'll buy more beer and eat more
30:11food and today we have invented a garden game based on an old english idiom this is called two birds
30:21one stone sim if you'd like to activate the mechanism we fashioned two birds out of thin plywood cut out a
30:28small round hole in each and mounted them onto a pivot system as you can see the two birds swing
30:34they've got holes in them the idea is that you have to throw a stone at the point where the holds line
30:39up and it goes through both birds and then you win a prize that's it that's the tweet right who's going
30:48first tony yep there's a there's a jug there full of carefully selected pebbles we need to establish
30:55the throwing distance oh that's good that's canny far that no that's well it can't be too easy
31:04i don't think it's gonna be easy get three shots each okay simmy activate the two birds mechanism
31:10do you think it's over arm or under arm i'm gonna go under on okay rubbish it's harder than you think
31:19nope hans are you aiming for the hole oh that wasn't that was very low simmy do you want to go i'll
31:30activate the birds because he's selecting his stones very carefully he's hidden the good stones at the
31:36bottom
31:40rubbish don't break it oh this is one of those games that i mean it doesn't really mean anything but
31:52once it starts it sort of becomes very important doesn't it like so many things in life timing is
31:58everything i think it starts from when you lift your arms you've got to there it is
32:04it's about the rhythm of the throw versus the bird's movement
32:10about understanding space and time oh or it's about throwing a stone at some birds
32:19did that go through i think that went through it was a bit of an in off but it did go through
32:24so you are the first person ever to score at two birds one stone congratulations thank you very much
32:30it's one nil nil to sim with only one stone through the hole we invite members of the crew
32:36and a few locals to play along oh that was very close what's this game called two birds one stone
32:45it causes i can't do it i obviously can't we even let cameraman will have a go i'll film it yeah
32:55what does this button do rubbish where are you from sir norway norway
33:01norway nil pa turns out to kill two birds in this game takes 12 members of the crew three locals some
33:10bloke from norway and about 500 stones before we eventually hit the target
33:17but it's very satisfying when it's achieved that was that was an almost perfect shot
33:28so it's a fantastic game actually i'm amazed no one's ever thought of it
33:32every pub in england will have one of these soon and that's a promise
33:45in wiltshire we're back in my pub and after a lot of delays cancellations and derailments
33:51sim and i are now ready to hand back this repaired and perfectly running train set
33:56that amy brought us when she heard that the royal oak is a pub of mending so amy who brought us this
34:04broken train set a few weeks ago is now waiting in the bar of the pub with her dad dave who was 75
34:12a couple of months ago this is actually his train set he apparently hasn't seen it for many many years
34:19he certainly hasn't seen it running for probably decades and this is meant to be a big slightly
34:26belated birthday surprise for him so it will either be very emotional because he loved his train set
34:32or he's completely forgotten about it and wonders what the hell we're doing we're going to find out
34:38in about 15 seconds they're coming there's amy and there's dave her dad i better go hello hello
34:51how are you good thank you how are you very well thank you you must be dave mr may
34:56happy birthday belatedly thank you very much i gather it was a big one we have something
35:00over here for you do you recognize it i do and does it work well let's find out sir if you'd like to
35:09take the driver's seat is this the sort of thing that you thought amy would do for your birthday
35:16i think amy's always had an attachment to junk and and really wouldn't throw anything away and
35:29and she's just a hoarder and um whereas um yeah i i i put it away in the loft and forgot about it
35:40really um do you think when you get home you'll simply put it back in the loft probably
35:45okay i've got i've now got a policy where um nothing goes in the loft um so because if it's in the
35:53loft you don't need it you mean you'll put it in the bin no no but it will be passed on to someone
36:02else yes yeah yeah passed on to the boys well that wasn't quite the emotional reaction we were hoping
36:09for but wait till he sees it go if you'd like to give it maximum berries forward sir which is
36:15clockwise it should there you go when was the last time you saw that going around
36:3240 years really yeah it is bringing back memories of my childhood and i did spend a lot of time
36:39setting it up and going around buying model kits where you used to glue station buildings together
36:48and i mean i i honestly felt that i wouldn't see it again that's more like it dave oh it's just
36:56brilliant it's just really lovely to see it running after all these years and with the age behind it
37:01it was actually a pleasure to make it work again because as we've been saying there's something about
37:05bringing yeah a train set back to life because you know that you're effectively resurrecting
37:11somebody's childhood and the joy of childhood and the excitement because back when we were young
37:17oh god here i go the train set in a new bicycle those were the top of the day yes exactly you
37:24couldn't have a more exciting thing and there it is and it still works it was future-proofed yeah
37:30gosh am i going to get a bill now yes but it's okay we're going to do it in 1959 money so it's
37:39it's two and six
37:43thank you enjoy thank you
37:52and now from one mode of transport to another
37:55i set off on a bike ride across the countryside as i returned to the problem of unenvironmental
38:01supermarket trips except this isn't just a normal bike this is a trolley bike
38:11the perfect merging of two engineering miracles this is the weirdest thing in the world expertly combined
38:18by me simian tony to create something that outshines both it offers the ease and joy of riding
38:26a bike straight to your destination with the convenience of a trolley ready and primed to receive
38:33a shed load of shopping ah and in the knowledge that you can do it in one go without ever leaving
38:41the saddle sorry i can't stop and here it is in all its glory on its inaugural ride to a well-known
38:49supermarket oh sorry morning yeah yeah and i'm into the supermarket i'm still not off my bike
38:58will it get through the doors yes and we're in
39:08right uh rice and pasta seasonal condiments i hate that word so it works as a bike morning
39:18but now let's see how it fares as a trolley crisps and snacks here we go
39:25oh
39:29peanuts
39:32epic
39:34oh look beans and sausages
39:44it's quite fast actually accelerates very well
39:47bit of skid coming left thank you pies
40:02chocolate fingers oh they're high
40:05this is just brilliant i mean all i'm doing is going for a bike ride really
40:18it'll just make shopping pleasurable
40:21um straight line steering is quite good it's got a good turning circle it does misbehave slightly in
40:26corners you have to remember about the back pedal brake so the geometry may need a little bit of work
40:32but the basic idea is good is this big morning morning and it's proving very popular with happy shoppers
40:41morning
40:48thank you so much
40:48that's all right
40:51lovely that's such an old-fashioned idea
40:58look at those people pushing a trolley some people are absolutely stuck in the 1970s
41:04the bug roll
41:20unfortunately i never passed my bike trolley proficiency test
41:26now all that's left to do is ride this incredible machine to the checkout
41:30under the watchful eye of the crew and Mel.
41:36Morning. Morning.
41:40Oh, no.
41:44I've realised that there's a slight issue with this.
41:47Would you like me to help? Yes, please.
41:50I'm supposed to do this without getting off the bicycle.
42:00That's all right.
42:01Can I actually... Hang on.
42:03No, I can reach things. Look.
42:05Yep.
42:07Hi.
42:09I'm still on the bike.
42:12I haven't put my feet on the floor.
42:13No, you're fine.
42:17So this does slightly depend on very helpful supermarket staff.
42:22Most people are quite helpful.
42:23They are.
42:23There we are. Thank you.
42:25And then I pay, and then we just put it back in there.
42:27Yes, OK.
42:29Do you like any bags?
42:30No, I would not like any bags, thank you.
42:32Thanks.
42:32I don't need them.
42:34That's good.
42:35Back comes the 4142. Is that cash or a card?
42:40Of course I don't have cash or a card.
42:42My butler does this.
42:43Do you need me to pay, Jane?
42:45Do you need me to pay, Jane?
42:46Yes, please.
42:47There we are.
42:47Thanks.
42:48I'll pay you back later.
42:50Thank you very much.
42:51It's been absolutely fantastic.
42:52Bye.
42:53Bye.
42:55Oh!
42:56I'm still on the bike.
43:01I'm still on the bike.
43:01It turns out that this year is the 75th anniversary of the very first shopping trolley being introduced
43:16to the UK, 75 years, and in all that time, no one has thought it could be combined with a bicycle.
43:24And this is brilliant.
43:25You just go for a bike ride and pick up everything you need for a happy existence on the way.
43:30It's excellent.
43:32Every home should have one.
43:35And will.
43:41Having fun?
43:42Oh, yes. Lovely.
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