Flight of Fancy: The Adventurists’ flying monkey bike
Millions of articles have been written debating the ultimate adventure bike. And not a single one of them matters. Because the team of maniacs who run The Adventurists have designed what is possibly the ultimate off-road machine: a monkey bike that literally flies.
I assure you we?re not kidding. But to understand why the Bristol-based crew of degenerates have combined a monkey bike with a parasail engine and wing, you first need to know what they?re all about.
The Adventurists are a loose collection of evil geniuses plotting madcap journeys around the world. With an increasing number of events being run since their establishment 2003, they now dub themselves ?generators of odyssey and chaos.? And they?re quite serious.
Their adventures have idiots launch clapped-out cars across Mongolian steppes, smash out thousands of miles on rickshaws and throw tiny bikes down remote mountains. And it?s that ?Monkey Run? which has led to the development of the Venturo flying monkey bike.
?Since what seems like forever, we?ve been organizing these large-scale adventures where we set the stage for chaos,? chief adventurer Tom Morgan says. ?Things like the Kraken Cup where we sail rubbish, ancient fishing boats in the Indian Ocean, or the Icarus Cup, which is the longest paramotor race in the world?.
But the Monkey Run remains one of their most successful events. And it sounds like a blast.
?We pit tiny monkey bikes against some of the toughest terrain on the planet in Peru, Morocc...
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