{"id":537697,"date":"2026-04-18T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537697\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:53:08","slug":"who-is-the-frenchman-touring-ireland-on-a-tall-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537697\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the Frenchman touring Ireland on a tall bike?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His custom-built bike stands at two metres tall and weighs around 80kg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been cleverly crafted to include everything from a water dispenser, a passenger seat and even storage compartments for his tent and ukulele.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not a welder, but I designed it and painted it and I give it a lot of love,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The unusual design, he explained, was inspired by a fascination with shapes found in nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I created the bike I started to wonder how much the round shape is at the source of everything. It goes from the planet to the atom. It is a naturally reassuring form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Travelling on such a large and heavy vehicle does come with its own challenges &#8211; it can be difficult to store and physically taxing to ride for long distances. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The obstacles however, are not going to dampen Rouget&#8217;s plans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One thing is for certain, I will either have to lighten it up or recreate another, lower bike,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His custom-built bike stands at two metres tall and weighs around 80kg. It has been cleverly crafted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-537697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537697","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=537697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}