{"id":124653,"date":"2025-09-09T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124653\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:40:07","slug":"peterborough-deafblind-cyclist-appeals-for-bike-rider-buddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124653\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough deafblind cyclist appeals for bike rider buddies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who is registered deaf and blind hoped to find a cyclist willing to be his eyes and ears on fun trips around his city on a &#8220;bicycle&#8221; made for two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graham Hicks, 64, from Bretton, Peterborough, was born blind and became profoundly deaf during childhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the past 16 years, he has run his own cycle repair business, but after experiencing issues with his balance, he had to give up his passion for riding tandems in his spare time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He built a four-wheeled Surrey bike, for two riders seated side by side, and recently made modifications to make it power-assisted, for easier pedalling. He appealed for cyclists who wanted to ride and experience the fresh air with him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who is registered deaf and blind hoped to find a cyclist willing to be his eyes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-124653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}