Meet the guy who rode a Honda three-wheeler over 2,000 kilometers across Canada in the winter (6 pics)
Matt Webb went to cross Canada in the winter on a tricycle motorcycle. He has already traveled about one-fifth of the way in 10,000 kilometers, but it is still difficult to say when he will get to the place destination.
For the past few weeks, Canadian Matt Webb has been crossing country from east to west: he started from the extreme point of the British Colombia and expects to get to Prince Edward Island. Webb hopes to travel more than 10,000 kilometers. The number doesn't look record, but the situation of the traveler is complicated by the fact that he is traveling on an old Honda Big Red trike with a 200cc engine.
The choice of an unusual vehicle Webb explained banal nostalgia. Matt owned a similar trike about 20 years ago, having bought his first paycheck, and drove it to work for a year, until got a slightly more decent means of transport.
According to Webb, he always regretted leaving tricycle Honda. He bought the current sample from a friend for only 500 dollars last year especially for the trip. He travel plan pondered for several years, but to go, in fact, where eyes stare he was prompted by the desire to cope with depression after death close friend.
Now Matt has traveled more than two thousand kilometers, becoming during this time Canadian social media star. Those who support his adventure, as forces help the traveler by providing him with hot food or overnight stay. At the same time, it cannot be said that Webb went on a long journey. through snow and ice unprepared: in addition to the pilot himself, his Honda Big Red is also dragging a whole trailer of equipment.
Matt himself says that he is in no hurry. He called his goal not as get to the finish line as soon as possible, and wind as much as possible kilometers. So he zigzags down the back roads visiting local attractions, settlements with funny titles and the like. In addition, during the trip he collects donations to a charitable foundation that helps motorcyclists injured in accidents. When Matt Webb gets to Apparently, he himself does not know the end point of the journey either.