The challenge Lowestoft, the UK's most easterly town, was the starting point for a unique journey with BBC Radio Suffolk’s afternoon show. Rachel Sloane, presenter of the show that's on air between 1.00pm and 4.00pm each afternoon, challenged her intrepid reporter, Steve Martin, to visit as many communities as he could during the first week of October.
The idea came about when Steve walked around the Suffolk coast for the programme earlier in the year. Get pedalling  | | Rickshaw canopy |
Rachel said: "The feature became so popular and lots of our listeners logged onto the BBC Suffolk website to see the photographs that Steve had taken along the way, that we couldn’t resist asking him to do a similar thing around north Suffolk. He accepted the challenge before he realised what the mode of transport would be!" Flynnstar Bicycles in Felixstowe agreed to loan BBC Radio Suffolk the rickshaw and Steve went been along to be measured up. Steve took it all in his stride: "I thought it sounded a great idea – an opportunity to get into the community and collect stories from north Suffolk. I hadn’t realised they were getting me to do it in such style! I’d better get some training in pretty quick if I’m going to survive a week pedalling round country roads in a rickshaw!" Listen to the interviews You can hear the interviews from Steve's Rickshaw Ramble by clicking on the audio links on this page. Your photographs  | | The rickshaw |
Did you take a picture of Steve on his ramble? If so, email it to the BBC Suffolk website: [email protected] and mark it RICKSHAW. Steve's very approximate (!) itinerary Monday: Oulton village – Blundeston – Lound – Herringfleet – Somerleyton – Oulton Broad – Carlton Colville. Tuesday: Mutford – Ellough – Worlingham – Beccles. Wednesday: Weston – Sotterley – Stoven – Uggeshall – Westhall – Holton – Halesworth. Thursday: Spexhall – Ilketshall St Margaret – Bungay - Mettingham – Iketshall St Andrew – Ringsfield – Ellough – Worlingham. Friday – North Cove – Barnby – Mutford – Gisleham – Pakefield – Kirkley, Lowestoft. | 
