01x02 - Supermarket Trolley-Bike

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

JAMES: Hello.

These days, I spend more
and more time in my Wiltshire home

and the pub I own.

Thinking about
all the big problems in the world...

And some smaller ones that annoy me.

Luckily, there's a place I can go
to solve them all,

or at least try.

My shed. Right.

It's here that I have the tools...

Let's just saw some wood up.
...the tea... Mm.

...and a couple of other
highly competent blokes...

Very good. Brace yourself.

Dirty fly tippers.

...and small.

The cereal has gone soggy.

I'll also have to take on
other people's problems.

He used to make a sound
and now he doesn't.

By which I mean,
the locals at my pub

[GASPS]

Is it a train set?

So, join us and our
excitable crew... [LAUGHTER]

...who will capture
our endeavours...

That was epic.

Oh!

That feels like a terrible thing
we've just done.

...repair... So, it's never worked?

Not in my lifetime.

[GASPS] [SCREAMS LOUDLY]

Wow. [LAUGHTER]
...in my shedload of ideas.

What do you think?
This is just brilliant.

Here I am, apparently
driving for pure pleasure

through the glorious
Wiltshire countryside

in my Mini.

Actually, and despite
the vacant expression,

I'm thinking about
one of those little problems

that really bother me.

The weekly shop,

and what a senseless
waste of life that is,

as you drive to the supermarket,

you park your car,
you go and find a trolley,

you take your trolley
round the supermarket,

you put all your shopping in it,
then you go to the till

and you unload the shopping again
so you can pay for it.

And then it gets put into bags,
and then you put the bags
back in the trolley,

then you wheel the trolley
back to the car park

and you take the bags
out of the trolley and you
put them in your car.

And then, unless you're
a blight on society,

you go and put the trolley away
in the trolley parking place.

Then you drive home,
then you unload the bags

and then you put it all
in your house.

I mean, for a start,
it's un-environmental,

because we're told we're not
supposed to use our cars

for short local shopping journeys,

and you use all these bags,

and these are plastic,
and that is B-A-D.

Despite bag charges
and reusable bags for life,

we still use over 400 million
single-use plastic bags per year,

and make lots of shopping trips
in our cars.

Something needs to be done,

and we have an idea.

What if we got rid of the need
for bags and cars

when we go shopping?

The answer could be
surprisingly simple,

combine one of my
favourite things - the bicycle,

with one of my
least favourite things -

the shopping trolley.

And to make the world's
first supermarket trolley-bike,

I'm going to need these two.

My engineer, Simmy...

So, I've got this plan...

...who collects vintage socks.

And we'll heat it up a little bit
to anneal it,

and then we'll hammer it out.

And the incomprehensible
Tony the Tool...

That's cannae far that.

and always ready with a power tool.

And, of course,
our up-for-anything crew.

Woo. Who are also

Sorry, Lottie.

So, here is the supermarket trolley,

we've also got a couple of bicycles
that I've recovered from the
recycling centre,

and we've got to combine the two,

such that you ride your supermarket
trolley to the supermarket,

around it and back out again
without getting off.

It's quite a challenge, because, A,
this is surprisingly heavy,

and as we know,
supermarket trolleys
do not... steer.

So, I've heard,
I've never actually driven one,

let me have a go at this.

This is completely...

it's random.

You can tell he's never ever
shopped in his life.

Obviously, normally my butler
does the shopping,

[LAUGHS] How it works. ...works.

Could you make it a sidecar?

I hadn't thought of that,
I'll be honest.

SIM: For good reason.

Yeah.

It's very odd.

Where's the brake? [LAUGHS]

Nice idea, Tony,
but we can eliminate it.

We gather around the whiteboard

for one of Simmy's excellent
engineering drawings

So, in my head,
that is a trolley axle... Yeah?

Some kind of pivot from this point,

anywhere between here and here,

going back up to our frame,
which will be seat post,

however, that's attached.
So, you've got your pedals,

and then your back wheel.

The clever bit will be
that pivot there,

whether it's underneath the axle...

or somewhere back here.

I'll just turn this upside down
because we can,

and it will stand up.

So, in effect,

that's chopped off there,

so the - the trolley,
is in effect sitting on here.

So, the trolley can do...

Ah. So, this is just an elaborate
steering mechanism.

So, we have to ride it upside down?

Only in Australia.

It's fantastic. You get on this...

outside your house or in your garage
or your shed or whatever,

you set off
and you don't get off again

until you're back at your house
with your shopping.

If your house is the right shape,
you could ride it into your kitchen.

Right, cup of tea.

And when I say a cup of tea,

I of course mean a pint of beer...

in a very nice pub I know.

Morning.

And I know it's very nice
because it's my pub,

and my regular customers know
that I'm always up for taking a look

at their broken odds and sods,

as I have a bit of a reputation
for mending stuff.

And sure enough, no sooner
have I sat down with Sim,

than local Amy turns up
with a precious family heirloom.

AMY: Hello.

I am. [GASPS]

Da-dah! Is, is it a train set?

It is. Ooh, do sit down
Thank you.

...to sit down for a long time.

[LAUGHS]

Because this is from the '50s.

Ahem, yes, it is my dad's.

Erm, what is wrong with it?

The transformer,

uh, seems to be the problem.
So, this bit.

It smokes after it's done
a couple of rounds.

[LAUGHS] Does it?

Not for about ten years...
...or more.

And why now suddenly
have you decided?

Dad turned 75 this year.

So, I thought it might be
quite a nice thing to,

erm, reinstate
his childhood train set.

No, he doesn't.

So, if we fail, we can just...

I have to admit,
this is slightly my specialism,

mending toys
and especially toy trains.

So, this is post 1959,
I know that by the coupling.

But the track I know is
from the late '50s

because this is the first series
of tracks the Tri-ang made.

Oh, wow. It's quite possibly

before they moved to Margate.

[LAUGHS]

Erm, that is the 0-6-0 Jinty.

Okay. These are Tri-ang trains.

Which later became Tri-ang Hornby,
and then Hornby.

Today's Hornby railways are actually
directly descended from these,
not the Hornby of Liverpool.

Oh, yes, that's the
automatic Hopper,

Oh, look at that.

...and then drops the coal out.

This will probably be largely
a strip and clean job.

What we want to do first, Simmy,
is find out what's wrong with that

because nothing will happen
without that, the transformer smokes

Did the last time I plugged it in.

Did you unplug it immediately
or did you run around going,

I unplugged it immediately.

Excellent, so you may have
saved the windings.

By the way, the other thing that's
very, very encouraging about this

is your motion work is intact.

Okay.

And so I think your father
took very good care of this.

Right, we are going to
plug in the transformer.

For those of you who don't know,
the transformer takes the
mains voltage AC,

transforms it into a safe 12 volt DC

so that it doesn't k*ll you when you
put your fingers on the rails.

And then that goes
through this control box
which is basically a rear stat,

and that controls
the speed of the train.

Right, so if we plug that in
and it doesn't go bang or
bursts into flames,

we can then check
the output of those,

They should be.

Shall we go for it?
Bang.

Is it humming?

Yes, it is. Right, 12 volts DC.

DC. 14.5, 14.6. It's about 14 volts.

That's about right
because there'll be a little
bit of loss in here.

If there's any kind of short
in that, which would short that,

which would make that
probably smoke.

Now we're going to see if this,

which is the train's
speed controller, works.

Happy? Yes, I'll hold the probes.

I will get, I'll be the
quick reacting switch.

Hang on, hang on, hang on.

Okay, so your - your AC switch
and viewing display...

If it starts to smoke,
I will turn it off.

So, you've got 14 volts.

Turn the knob.

Just see if that's getting warm.
There you go. It works.

Yeah, so if I now
take those two wires

and apply them to the two sides
of the locomotive's electric motor,

we might see some life.

You ready?

Excellent. That's remarkable.

God, you're good. Given the amount

That. A pigeon...

That is more than a pigeon.

[LAUGHS]

And up my arm. [LAUGHS]

Oh, God. [PIGEON COOING]

[LAUGHS]

The update is that the transformer
and the rear stat works,

but the train set
is now covered in guano,

[LAUGHS]

But it's a small price to pay,

and it is considered good luck
in some circles for a...

So they say.

You find us deep in Wiltshire,

in the middle of a groundbreaking
engineering project

to solve both the environmental
issues and inconvenience

of the weekly shop.

By joining together a bike
and a trolley.

Which we are in the middle
of dismantling.

Look what I've found.

Conveniently discarded
at the back of my shed,

I happened upon some wheels

which are just the right size.

Check it under and see.

Oh, that's almost bespoke.

That is absolutely brilliant.

TONY: Just cut these, these.

Well, I'd weld it on first.

Shall we do that? Let's do that.

Before we weld anything together,
we're going to have to strip

both our trolley and our bike
of anything not strictly necessary.

I think we'll have a montage here
with some slightly twee doing music

from a free music library somewhere.

Tony and I use brute force.

Whoa. Dispose.

This bit can go as well.

And a hammer...
to get rid of that child seat

Job done. While Simmy
preps the bike's head stock

ready to see if it will fit nicely
onto the trolley.

So, that's about the right height.

And with our three-wheeled prototype
beginning to resemble
Simmy's drawing,

I think we've just about had enough
of this twee music.

So, if we cut this off,

[CREW MEMBER SPEAKING]

This needs to be vertical,
because when you ride a -

a two wheeled bicycle,

when you go round a bend,
you lean...

and you have a thing called
rake and trail,

which is basically the distance
between the centre of that

and the centre of the pivot,
and that is at an angle.

But it doesn't want to be
at an angle on something with
two wheels at the front.

Otherwise, when you turn,
one wheel will be trying
to lift off the ground.

So, that needs to be vertical.

So, if we put a plate on here,

because all this is very strong,

and we attach the fork
straight to that plate.

Because these trolleys,
they're designed
to hold a lot of weight.

Very - Yes.

Are you confident
of where the plates should go?

Well, the box section.

I'm going to go
and cut some box section now.

We'll measure that
and get those in.

And we'll cut...

the head stock off.

Happy? Yes.

Just, just mind your eyes there.

This box section
cut from Simmy's old barbecue...

will form a frame

that the bike's fork
will be welded onto.

Right, nothing more of that.

Simmy... angle grinding
with his shorts on

is slightly not HSE.

No, it isn't, so please
remember to wear the appropriate
protective equipment

if you're making
a trolley-bike at home.

Right, the next thing I -
I think is we cut this.

Yeah. But you haven't
got any goggles on,

so don't get anywhere near it.
Well, do you want me to
put some goggles on?

Yeah, put some goggles on.
Thank you.

Right, don't mind my eyes then.

We're cutting the bike frame
so that we can establish
the essential geometry

between the headstock
and the trolley.

And also, so that there will be room
for me to pedal.

Turn it over.

Right, nice and solid.

Yeah.

[MOTOR WHIRRING]

That feels like a terrible thing.
you've just done.

What, chop a bicycle up?
It's only metal.

We're gonna make it
better though. Okay.

Will our cut down bicycle
pivot correctly

with our stripped back trolley?

That is, again,
almost too good to be true.

You lose a little bit
of trolley space,

but let's be honest,

we're men, we're gonna go
and buy three bottles of beer,

That is very true.

What that you could fit
in a shopping basket? Yeah.

Or just in your backpack,
I mean, or your pockets, even.

Why are we doing this?
Okay.

Yes, innovation is fun,

but it's also very hard work.

The summer sun beats down,

all this grafting makes for
a very hot and sweaty team.

So, I'm wondering
if there's a way to cool down

that doesn't involve expensive
air conditioning or electric fans.

But perhaps something
a little more homemade.

It's very hot today,
it's about 28 degrees outside,

it's about, well up to
ten degrees hotter in the workshop

and we've been getting very sweaty.

So, what if you could make
cooling clothing?

We have these packs,

these are existing
commercially available

chilli-bin packs.

And we also have some
sodium polyacrylate, which is...

basically what goes in here
mixed with water.

And it improves its ability
to hold cold.

So, what we're going to do,
and by we, I mean Simmy,

because he can operate
the sewing machine expertly,

is make a T-shirt for me.

We're also going to make Tony
a pair of cooling pants.

Oh, God.

One inside the other,

skilfully sewn together by Simmy,

so that the whole thing
can be filled with the...

chilli medium, which is
what you're gonna make, Tony.

Oh, yeah,
unfortunately, yes. Okay.

This is not just about
humiliating Tony,

we're trying to do our bit
to fight global warming

by finding low-fi,
low-energy ways to stay cool.

As there are quite fortuitously
six of these little ones.

Could I have a six pack?

Other way round. Is it...

It's that, I know you've never
seen one before. Yeah, well, I've...

Not in the mirror, I haven't, no.

So, three there...

No, no. No, no.

Two, two, two. Yes. What?

Two, two, two. That's it. Oh, yes.

Yeah.

So, Simmy gets to work
sewing individual pockets

for the ready made
ice packs to sit in.

Go on, shove it in.

There you go.

Shall I hold that up
and we can see what the effect

Um... Excellent.

Excellent.

I look like one of those,
you know, cartoon superheroes.

All right, so next,
Simmy is going to incorporate these

larger packs into the shoulders.

And then we'll put it in the fridge.

But first,
we need to fill Tony's pants

with our homemade cooling gel.

Right, so Tony and I
will make up the gel.

It's ten grams per litre,
which doesn't sound like enough,

but apparently that's right
according to the instructions

Sodium Polyacrylate,
also known as water lock...

Shall we do one litre first
and give it a shot?

...is often used in nappies
and fire retardants

because it can absorb
up to 300 times its weight in water.

Wow. Is it turning into... Okay,
It's really thick.

It's used in cool packs
because the water gets
trapped inside the gel,

reducing the rate
at which it heats up.

It looks a bit like, um,

Yeah, it looks like a slushie.

So it stays cooler for longer
than plain ice.

It's fantastic.

Now we've mixed up the cooling gel,

it's time for Simmy to sew
individual pocketed channels

into Tony's massive pants

to accommodate all the
sodium polyacrylate mixture.

This is wild, this stuff.

There's something
slightly unsavoury about it,

your pants are also
becoming very heavy, Tony.

That's...

[EXCLAIMS, LAUGHS]

It's just... [LAUGHS]

What are you doing to me?

So, we're ready to put
our cool clothing in the fridge.

We'll leave them in there
for an hour, put them on
and see how good we look.

[LAUGHS] And how good we feel.

And just a few hours later,

enough time for a walk, a pint
and two shakes of a lamb's tail...

Right, men...
...it's time to see
if our hand sewn cooling clothing

actually works.

I'm gonna go first, Tony,
if that's okay.

Ooh, yes, it feels cold.

Just put your hand on there.

Oh. That's gonna be
Ooh.

Right, I'm going to disappear
into the lav and then emerge

to gasps of amazement.

Very cold.

[LAUGHS] [LAUGHS]

It's so realistic. Yeah. [LAUGHTER]

That's great.

I've got to say, okay,
apart from that,

we've got the six pack a bit low...

All right. ...but the sensation

You look very broad.

But it's really good, this,
these bits especially because they -

they cool down the sort of
base of your neck.

It does
square your shoulders off as well.

Doesn't it just. [LAUGHTER]

How cold is it? Is it comfortable?

It's, yeah, it is, actually.

There's - there's no, there are
no sharp edges or anything,

I'm definitely cooler.

I'm cooling down
even as I stand here talking to you.

And when you touch it, do you
actually think you've got abs,

are you convincing yourself
it's like... Yeah.

[LAUGHTER]

He's just oozing sex appeal.

[LAUGHTER]

And then we decided it was time
for Tony to put his pants on.

Oh, my God.

I'm never gonna keep these on.

Come on, Tony.

Do I have to? Let's have a look.

They're gonna fall down.

They're falling down.

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

I feel like I've got
some sort of disease.

Are - are you cooler?

They're cooler
but mainly my thighs,

it's all dropped out.

It does.

They're coming down.

Feel it, it's not right. MAN: Ooh!

No.

It's horrible.

That's it. Yeah,

so we don't have to look at that.

Argh!

I wish to be able to see less well.

Erm, what can we conclude from that?

As an idea,

I'm not so sure about the pants,
but the shirt,
I think, is an idea it works.

If these were a bit thinner

and they were more
evenly distributed,

chuck your T-shirt
in the fridge the night before,

get up, slip it on.

Walk out, ice cool.

Oh, it's leaking.

Urgh, God. [LAUGHTER]

It's squeezing up my back.

Oh, my God. [EXCLAIMS]

Right. I think
that's the end of that scene.

I do hope so.

Welcome back to Wiltshire,

where we've been
tackling climate change

by inventing cool clothing

and welding together
a supermarket trolley and a bike,

obviously.

And now we're about to attempt
to repair a broken train set

a surprise for Amy's dad's


No pressure then.

MAN: Yeah.

Right, the toy trains
have been cleansed of bird poo

by a very low-paid
junior researcher,

we're now ready
to start mending them,

which in this instance
isn't very difficult

because I can reveal

that I had almost exactly

this train set.
In fact, I still have it.

It had these two locomotives,
the 0-6-0 Jinty

and the 462 Princess Elizabeth.

I also have the Guard's van,

this green coal truck.
I have that flat one,

I have one of these green ones,

and I did have one of these
blood and custard coaches.

But my big sister
trod on it in about 1969.

And I haven't seen her since.

Nevertheless, there is a joy
in mending things

and there's a particular joy
in mending these trains,

because, actually, over the years
I've mended hundreds of them,

they're very,
very simple mechanisms.

All of these Tri-ang locomotives
were designed to come apart

by the removal of one screw

down the chimney
on these early ones.

Oh, yeah.

So, problems with the motor

tend to be that the magnet
becomes weak,

a good test is if
you put the motor down
and put your screwdriver on it,

I can sort of pick the motor up
with the screwdriver,

which is a rough and ready test.

But...

it would be remiss of us
not to use the re magnetiser.

Sting, dah-dah-dah!
The remagnetiser.

It's in here,

it's a remarkable thing.

I do like the, uh...
the use of Meccano...

Yes, it's Meccano themed,

this was made by a man
called Ronald Dodds,

who's a toy train mender.

It's not something you're
likely to have lying around
in the home, to be honest.

In fact, I've never met
anybody else in the world
apart from Ronald Dodds,

who has a toy train
magnet remagnetiser.

Using this compass, you establish
the North Pole of the magnet,

this isn't absolutely crucial,

but it means that the locomotive
will run in the correct direction.

I meant to say, actually,
you shouldn't put anything

like your watch
or your mobile phone...

Or really expensive cameras.

Or your expensive cameras.

Are you ready for remagnetising?

Makes quite a loud noise,
so brace yourself.

That's it.

These are basically coils
with soft iron bars in them,

and they become a magnet
when you apply the current.

And that re magnetises,
because it's touching it,

the magnet in the motor
is essential to its operation.

You can see that
they're stuck to it now.

And doing my screwdriver test...

MAN: What have you done?

Well, I've somehow de-magnetised it,
which means it...

Hang on.

I think you did.

Yeah, but that should just
magnetise it in the other direction.

I think, well...

How can I have k*lled a magnet?

Let's try that again.

That's the one, that's the one.

Yes, look.

So, the screwdriver test works.

It's back. It's back.

Now, let's test the remagnetised
motor for real.

Could you give me some juice
on the controller?

Yes.

Look at that.

[MOTOR WHIRRING]

Finally, an electro motive force.

That's nice.
I like the little sparks.

And with the sparks flying,

it's time for a track test.

Okay, Simmy, if you could...

Plug in.

Transformer is on, I can hear it.

The transformer is buzzing,
so here we go. Are we ready?

I don't want to do this.

Go on.

It wants to go...

and yet it doesn't.

I've got a bad feeling
about this repair, for some reason.

I don't know why, it's just...

I ought, I should be.
I've done this dozens of times.

It doesn't work.

Time to run some diagnostics.

First, we check the power.

We've got 14 volts there,
so we eliminate that.

Then we check the wiring.

That connection is good.

So, there's no short.

Then clean the track.

And clean the wheels.

Sometimes you get
sort of invisible dirt.

And finally...

We've had a bit of a fiddle around
and we isolated the problem
to the controller, the rear stat.

We wiggled it and wiggled it
and hopefully cleaned it up.

So, it's just dirt
and it needs cleaning
like most things in life,

and it's not really surprising
after all those years in the loft.

What is it that, erm
Benjamin Franklin said,

"He who lives by hope alone
will die farting."

[LAUGHS] Did he say that?

Right, that is running,
it's buzzing,

here we go.

Look at that. Yes!

That's great. That is fantastic.

That's very pleasing,
I hope Amy's father, how old is he?

Seventy five and a half now,

present it to them and...

they'll go, "Wow, that's amazing."
Take it home and put it back
in the loft again

for another half century.

Very good.

Well, I enjoyed that.

But as much as I'd like to play
with Dave's train set all day,

I have more pressing matters
over in my pub.

We're trying to invent new pub games
to entertain the customers

so they'll buy more beer
and eat more food.

And today, we have
invented a garden game

based on an old English idiom.

This is called
"Two birds, one stone."

Simmy, if you'd like to
activate the mechanism.

We fashioned two birds
out of thin plywood,

cut out a small round hole in each

and mounted them
onto a pivot system.

As you can see, the two birds swing,
they've got holes in them,

the idea is that you
have to throw a stone

at the point where the holes line up

and it goes through both birds.

And then you win... a prize.

That's it, that's the tweet.

Yeah.

There's a, there's a jug there
full of carefully selected pebbles.

We need to establish
the throwing distance.

Oh.

That's good.
That's cannae far, that.

No, that's, well,
it can't be too easy.

I don't think it's gonna be easy.

You get three shots each.

Okay, Simmy, activate
the two birds mechanism.

Do you think it's overarm
or underarm?

I'm gonna go underarm. Okay.

Rubbish.

See, it's harder than you think.

Nope.

Pants. [LAUGHS]

Are you aiming for the hole?

Oh, that wasn't, that was very low.

Simmy, do you want to go?
I'll activate the birds.

He's hidden them,

good stones at the bottom.

[LAUGHTER]

Rubbish.

It's hard.

Ooh! [EXCLAIMS]

This is one of those games that,
I mean, it doesn't really
mean anything,

but once it starts,

it sort of becomes very important,
doesn't it?

Like so many things in life,
timing is everything.

I think it starts from when
you lift your arms, you've gotta...

schwoo, there it is.

It's about the rhythm of the throw

versus the birds movement.

About understanding space and time.

Oh.

Or it's about throwing a stone
at some birds.

[CHEERING] Did that go through?

Oh.

So, you are the first person ever
to score at two birds, one stone.

I've got two more yet.

Thank you very much.

With only one stone
through the hole,

we invite members of the crew
and a few locals to play along.

Ooh. Oh, that was very close.

What's this game called?
Course it is.

Gooo! [LAUGHS] I can't do it,
I honestly can't.

We even let cameraman Will
have a go.

Yeah.

What does this button do?

Rubbish. Where are you from, sir?

MAN: Norway. Norway.

Norway, nil points.

Turns out to k*ll two birds
in this game

takes 12 members of the crew,

three locals, some bloke from Norway
and about 500 stones before...

[BLOWS RASPBERRY]
...we eventually hit the target.

Yes!

But it's very satisfying
when it's achieved.

That was, that was
an almost perfect shot.

So, it's a fantastic game, actually.

I'm amazed no one's ever
thought of it.

Every pub in England
will have one of these soon.

And that's a promise.

In Wiltshire, we're back in my pub,

and after a lot of delays,
cancellations and derailments,

Sim and I are now ready
to hand back this repaired

and perfectly running train set
that Amy brought us

when she heard that the Royal Oak
is a pub of mending.

So Amy, who brought us this
broken train set a few weeks ago,

is now waiting in the bar of the pub
with her dad, Dave,

who was 75 a couple of months ago.

This is actually his train set,

he apparently hasn't seen it for
many, many years,

he certainly hasn't seen it running
for probably decades.

And this is meant to be a big,
slightly belated,

birthday surprise for him.

So, it will either be very emotional
because he loved his train set,

or he's completely
forgotten about it

and wonders what the hell
we're doing.

We're going to find out
in about 15 seconds.

They're coming.

Amy.

Hello.

Good,
thank you. How are you?

Very well, thank you,
you must be Dave.

Hi, Mr May.

Thank you very much.

I gather it was a big one.
We have something over here for you.

Do you recognise it?

I do. And does it work?

Well, let's find out. Sir.

If you'd like to take
the driver's seat.

Is this the sort of thing that
you thought Amy would do
for your birthday?

I think Amy's always
had an attachment...

to junk, and... [LAUGHS] [LAUGHS]

And really wouldn't
throw anything away.

And, and she's just a hoarder.

And, erm...

Whereas, erm... yeah, I, uh

I put it away in the loft
and forgot about it, really.

Erm... Do you think

you'll simply put it
back in the loft?

Probably. [LAUGHTER]

I've got,
I've now got a policy where, erm,

nothing goes in the loft. Erm...

so, because if it's in the loft,
you don't need it, so...

[LAUGHS] No. No.

But it will be passed on
to someone else. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, that wasn't quite
the emotional reaction
we were hoping for,

but wait till he sees it go.

If you'd like to give it
maximum berries forward,
sir, which is clockwise.

It should...

There you go.

[LAUGHS]

When was the last time
you saw that going around?

Forty years, I don't know.
Yeah.

It is bringing back
memories of my childhood,

and I did spend a lot of time
setting it up and

going around buying model kits

where you used to glue

station buildings together and,

I mean, I - I honestly felt
that I wouldn't see it again.

So... [LAUGHS] [LAUGHS]

Oh, it's just brilliant.
It's just really lovely

to see it running
after all these years
and with the age behind it.

It was actually a pleasure
to make it work again

Yeah.

...a train set back to life
because you know that you're...

effectively resurrecting
somebody's childhood,

and the joy of childhood
and the excitement.

Because back when we were young,

oh, God, here I go,

the train set and a new bicycle,

They were like the iPhones
of the day, weren't they?

Yes, exactly. You couldn't have
a more exciting thing.

Yes.

Gosh, am I going to get a bill now?

[LAUGHS]

[LAUGHS]

It's two and six. [LAUGHTER]

Thank you, James. Enjoy.
Thank you. Thank you.

And now, from one mode of transport
to another.

I set off on a bike ride
across the countryside

as I return to the problem of

unenvironmental supermarket trips.

Except, this isn't just
a normal bike.

This is a trolley-bike.

The perfect merging
of two engineering miracles.

This is the weirdest thing
in the world.

Expertly combined by me,
Simmy and Tony

to create something
that outshines both.

It offers the ease and joy
of riding a bike

straight to your destination,

with the convenience of a trolley
ready and primed

to receive a shed load of shopping.

Argh.

And in the knowledge
that you can do it in one go
without ever leaving the saddle.

Sorry, can't stop.

And here it is in all its glory

on its inaugural ride
to a well-known supermarket.

You missed, didn't you? Yeah.

And I'm into the supermarket,
I'm still not off my bike.

Will it gets through the doors? Yes.

And we're in.

Right.

Er, rice and pasta,

seasonal, condiments -
I hate that word.

WOMAN: Morning.

...but now let's see
how it fares as a trolley

Crisps and snacks.

Here we go.

Boo...

peanuts.

Epic.

Oh, look,

beans and sausages.

It's quite fast, actually,
it accelerates very well.

I did a skid.

Coming left.

Thank you. Pies.

Chocolate fingers.

Ooh, they're high.

Wee.

This is just brilliant.

I mean, all I'm doing
is going for a bike ride, really.

It just makes shopping pleasurable.

Erm, straight line steering
is quite good,

it's got a good turning circle,
it does misbehave slightly
in corners.

You have to remember about
the back pedal brake.

So, the geometry may need
a little bit of work.

But the basic idea is good.

Oh, my goodness, May.
Good morning.

And it's proving very popular
with happy shoppers.

MAN: Morning.

Thank you so much.

Cheese. Thank you so much.

Happy travels. ...that's all right.

[MAN SPEAKING] Love it.

That's such an old-fashioned idea.

[LAUGHS] Look at those people
pushing a trolley.

Some people are absolutely
stuck in the 1970s.

Doo-doo-doo-do-doo-do-doo, doo-doo.

We need bog roll.

Oh... [BLEEP]

Unfortunately, I never passed
my bike-trolley proficiency test.

Now all that's left to do
is ride this incredible machine

to the checkout.

Under the watchful eye
of the crew... and Mel.

Morning.

Morning.

Oh, no.

I've realised that there's
a slight issue with this.

Would you like me to help?

I'm supposed to do this
without getting off the bicycle.

That's all right.

Can I, actually - hang on...

Yeah.

Pie.

I'm still on the bike.

No, you're fine.

Most people are quite helpful,

aren't they? They are.
There we are, thank you.

And then I pay, and then
we just put it back in there.

Yeah, okay. Okay.
Would you like any bags?

Okay.

That's good.

That comes to 41.42,
is that cash or card?

Of course I don't have cash
or a card,

my butler does this.

Do you need me to pay it, James?

There we are, thank you so much.

Thank you very much.
It's been absolutely fantastic.

Bye. Bye.

Ooh.

I'm still on the bike.

It turns out that this year
is the 75th anniversary

of the very first shopping trolley
being introduced to the UK.

Seventy-five years.

And in all that time,
no one has thought...

it could be combined with a bicycle.

And this is brilliant,
you just go for a bike ride

and pick up everything you need
for a happy existence on the way.

It's excellent.

Every home should have one.

And will.

[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING]

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