3 wheels, 1 leg: 35km challenge for Shropshire man with one limb

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Three wheels, one leg: 35km challenge for Shropshire man with one limb shropshirestar.com

Born with no arms and one leg, he is now putting himself through tough training on his specially-built recumbent trike.

His aim it to take part in a 35-kilometre cycle Challenge without the motor assistance on his trike, powering it with his one leg.

He has set himself a target of raising £2,000 for the Royal British Legion by completing the Lilleshall Poppy Ride in May.

The 40-year-old decided to get himself a new trike in lockdown last year.

From the age of seven until a teenager he had a trike, not for fitness but to get around.

"It was a means of travel, to let me see my friends and feel included. Then it became my mode of getting from pub to pub," he said.

Once Paul started a family he didn't need a bike and his children kept him busy.

But in lockdown he said he felt life had become work eat sleep and nothing else.

"I saw that an old friend, foot and mouth painter, Tom Yendell, had bought himself a recumbent trike so I looked into it and discovered that the makers, Quest 88, are based in Shrewsbury."

The company set about designing a trike for Paul's needs ...

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