World's Fastest Wheelie Bin
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Apologies for the Wall link but 43mph in a wheelie bin...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8784361...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8784361...
When they were first delivered I live in Sheffield (early 1980s). They were not in use for at least a year as there were no bin lorries. We used to lie then on a side on a steep road hill then run at them and jump in. Fasted we managed to "amateur time one" was in Lundy Road Park, where average speed before hitting the woodland scrub at the bottom was approx 32mph.(O-level physics maths with Swatch second hand on watch so could have been anything from 20mph to 400mph).
Two other great pieces of fun could be had.
1) for thine parents of thine enemies from school. Put them up against their front door, handle facing door, wipe handle with dog poo (the white dog poo of the 1980s was good as it looked like the frost on the winter mornings).
2) for those flush enough to have a garden and an outdoor tap in the ealy 1980s (remember this was Sheffield, not Chelsea flower Show), bin up against door. Wheels flush to door as best possible. Fill bin as best possible with water from tap, quietly, even if it meant many buckets (thank god infra motion security lights didn't exist). we had proper winters back then. The water would freeze and as ice is less dense than water it would push the lid up somewhat. Watching someone trying to move a wheelie bin full of a 200kg block of ice with the lid flapping in their face at 6 am on a morning in January was worth getting up for.
Not on our manner but the next one along, allegedly a bin was filled with water, left to freeze overnight and then the next morning put on its side and "the fck kicked out of it to dislodge the ice" onto one of the supertram tracks. Apparently that block of ice got "quite some speed" before hurtling through a bus / tram shelter and destruction against a tree - which was known for many years after as where the ice hit (whether it was really a block of ice or a car there was definate damage to the tree). Oh, Youtube, why didn't you exist in the later 1970s / early 1980s - actually probably good job it didn't thinking about it.........
Two other great pieces of fun could be had.
1) for thine parents of thine enemies from school. Put them up against their front door, handle facing door, wipe handle with dog poo (the white dog poo of the 1980s was good as it looked like the frost on the winter mornings).
2) for those flush enough to have a garden and an outdoor tap in the ealy 1980s (remember this was Sheffield, not Chelsea flower Show), bin up against door. Wheels flush to door as best possible. Fill bin as best possible with water from tap, quietly, even if it meant many buckets (thank god infra motion security lights didn't exist). we had proper winters back then. The water would freeze and as ice is less dense than water it would push the lid up somewhat. Watching someone trying to move a wheelie bin full of a 200kg block of ice with the lid flapping in their face at 6 am on a morning in January was worth getting up for.
Not on our manner but the next one along, allegedly a bin was filled with water, left to freeze overnight and then the next morning put on its side and "the fck kicked out of it to dislodge the ice" onto one of the supertram tracks. Apparently that block of ice got "quite some speed" before hurtling through a bus / tram shelter and destruction against a tree - which was known for many years after as where the ice hit (whether it was really a block of ice or a car there was definate damage to the tree). Oh, Youtube, why didn't you exist in the later 1970s / early 1980s - actually probably good job it didn't thinking about it.........
Edited by Corvid-2020 on Tuesday 29th September 19:19
1982 following bins on wheels roll out.
Where's your Bin? [To UK repatriated Hong Konger?]
"Upstairs"
No, where's your Bin?
"Upstairs, I told you?".
No, where's your wheelie Bin?
"Oh, OK, upstairs, having a w
k".
(The 1970s called, they want their joke back)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
(I do believe I hold the speed record by the way for cross country Morris Dancing set in the back of a Landover on the A57 in October 1983 at 57 mph for a round of "Nicky-Nacky-Noodles"). Now that was scary eight men in tights and beards hitting each other with sticks, the back of a vehicle unstable above 40 mpg doing nearly the NSL on a road full of potholes, grouse and 200ft drops).
Where's your Bin? [To UK repatriated Hong Konger?]
"Upstairs"
No, where's your Bin?
"Upstairs, I told you?".
No, where's your wheelie Bin?
"Oh, OK, upstairs, having a w
k".(The 1970s called, they want their joke back)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
(I do believe I hold the speed record by the way for cross country Morris Dancing set in the back of a Landover on the A57 in October 1983 at 57 mph for a round of "Nicky-Nacky-Noodles"). Now that was scary eight men in tights and beards hitting each other with sticks, the back of a vehicle unstable above 40 mpg doing nearly the NSL on a road full of potholes, grouse and 200ft drops).
Have a York Press link instead seeing as he did it at Elvington Airfield
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18753505.worlds-f...
Racing down the runway as well as Andy was the world’s fastest motorised toilet (44.6mph), and the world’s fastest garden shed (at an impressive 106.1mph).
But one of the true “stars of the show” was self-confessed ‘adrenaline junkie’ Jason Liversidge, 44, who reached speeds of almost 65mph in a motorised wheelchair - despite being 95 per cent paralysed.
Dad-of-two Jason is now 95 per cent paralysed after being diagnosed with the degenerative Motor Neurone Disease in 2013.
But he has not let the illness hold him back - and since his diagnosis, has scaled Mount Snowdon in a wheelchair, and abseiled off the Humber Bridge in Hull.
Liz said: “It was really nerve-wracking watching him trying to break this world record - but mainly because I was watching him wondering if it was fast enough.
“It was also a really cold day, and because he’s immobile he gets very, very cold quite quickly - so we weren’t sure he was even going to be able to do it.
“But he’s been dreaming of this day since about 2017, so he’s really chuffed to have done it.”
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18753505.worlds-f...
Racing down the runway as well as Andy was the world’s fastest motorised toilet (44.6mph), and the world’s fastest garden shed (at an impressive 106.1mph).
But one of the true “stars of the show” was self-confessed ‘adrenaline junkie’ Jason Liversidge, 44, who reached speeds of almost 65mph in a motorised wheelchair - despite being 95 per cent paralysed.
Dad-of-two Jason is now 95 per cent paralysed after being diagnosed with the degenerative Motor Neurone Disease in 2013.
But he has not let the illness hold him back - and since his diagnosis, has scaled Mount Snowdon in a wheelchair, and abseiled off the Humber Bridge in Hull.
Liz said: “It was really nerve-wracking watching him trying to break this world record - but mainly because I was watching him wondering if it was fast enough.
“It was also a really cold day, and because he’s immobile he gets very, very cold quite quickly - so we weren’t sure he was even going to be able to do it.
“But he’s been dreaming of this day since about 2017, so he’s really chuffed to have done it.”
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