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Heinz before departure on Monday June 26 for Greenland "I can’t decide what’s more impressive, the fact that the Bike Friday can handle the load or that Heinz can keep it all moving for miles and miles! - James Blackstock, with son and budding Adventurer Matthew at the right.
 The World's Most Traveled Man by Bicycle made headlines recently when his 50-lb original 3-speed bike was stolen, then returned. A friend in the UK caught up with Heinz and gave this report. By James Blackstock in the UK. Bike Friday recently donated $500 to hel p Heinz achieve his latest Guinness book of Records challenge. FIRST, Heinz says hello - apparently he had been planning to go back to Paris with a friend to pick up some more pamphlets so he could have a stash to sell here. He’s still trying to raise money to cover the Greenland trip but won’t go until at least mid-June to ensure the best weather conditions. One exciting bit of news is that he was contacted by David Letterman’s production company last week to possibly make an appearance on the Late Show. I told him more about Letterman as he wasn’t too up on things with US late night television since Johnny Carson. Basically he’s hoping he can get enough money for the appearance to possibly cover the Greenland trip or perhaps get them to agree to fly him there after the appearance. Heinz now has both his bikes here and does plan to use the Bike Friday on the Greenland trip unless something miraculous happens that would allow him to cope with the other bike. Man that thing is a MONSTER but totally impressive. It weighs an absolute ton fully loaded. Being a BIKIE myself, I was asking tons of questions about his bike. It has to be the most customised thing I’ve ever seen. Only suffered minor damage in the theft and we managed to sort most of it out today. I was also really impressed with his Bike Friday considering the load capacity it can deal with as well. We spent several hours in the back of Ed’s bike shop www.ibike.co.uk chatting and helping the guys cleanup piles of old junk and breakdown a ton of cardboard boxes. Ed’s a close friend of Heinz’s and Richard Lee (owner of Bike Friday dealer, Flying Ball Bike Shop in Hong Kong) ... More Heinz at www.bikefriday.com/heinzstucke |
SOMETIME LATER ... we received a postcard:
