Rickshaw Run

Rickshaw Run The original tuk tuk adventure. No set route, just you, a 145cc rolling cake tin and thousands of miles of old school chaos. But he would have been wrong.

Take a three-wheeled glorified lawnmower, chuck in a couple of mates and throw it at India, Sri Lanka or the Himalayan mountains. Kneel before engineering’s highest life form. If God had made machines he probably wouldn’t have bothered with a Rickshaw. Essentially, it’s not a very good idea. They’re not very fast, they smell, they fall over when you go round corners and break down more often than

a 3 year old. A days driving feels like you’ve been sat on by an elephant. But somehow, all this makes them better. They are, unquestionably, the greatest vehicle on the planet. The only way to to cross thousands of miles of adventure, the very pinnacle of un-style and lost-grace. The Rickshaw Run was created by The Adventurists. We’re fighting to make the world less boring. Our planet used to slap us about the face-cheeks with iron fists of adventure every day. Maps had edges to walk off. Men feared the monsters that lurked in the deep. Whole continents lay undiscovered. But now, the entire surface of the Earth has been scanned by satellites and shovelled into your mobile phone, tagged with twattery about which restaurant serves the best mocha-latte-frappes**te. Getting lost and in trouble is no longer an occupational hazard of walking to the market. It is an art-form. One we strive to perfect. We live to find ways to make the world a bit more difficult. To bring chaos into our over-sanitised lives. To create adventures where you don’t know what will happen tomorrow or if you’ll even make it. Because we think there’s no greater moment than those seconds as you leap into an abyss of uncertainty and disaster.

Team Plutus (.rickshaw)  turned India’s roads into their own personal playground. From dodging haystack-laden tractors t...
14/12/2024

Team Plutus (.rickshaw) turned India’s roads into their own personal playground.

From dodging haystack-laden tractors to squeezing past towering trucks, they embraced every twist, turn, and temple along the way.

"Name me a better way to start the year than the  ! 48 teams with constant breakdowns, flat tyres, disorientated navigat...
12/12/2024

"Name me a better way to start the year than the !

48 teams with constant breakdowns, flat tyres, disorientated navigation, f*****d gears, debatable driving skills (me), a poppin group chat, and a whole lot of partying!!! 🍻

It was nothing less than incredible." — ‘Desert Dollies,’ aka Lucia () and Chloe ().

The next edition of the Rickshaw Run Sri Lanka goes in January.

The brothers of Team Tukky McTukFace: one’s a pink rickshaw that looks like it’s mid-scream, hauling chaos across the co...
10/12/2024

The brothers of Team Tukky McTukFace: one’s a pink rickshaw that looks like it’s mid-scream, hauling chaos across the countryside; the other’s a cow.

Strange way to meet your doppelgänger—casually grazing in full festival regalia, dyed pink like the guest of honour at a psychedelic wedding.

Different families, same refusal to blend in.

The Rickshaw Run proving once again these three-wheeled heroes can reach heights spaceships only dream of. Rickshaws don...
07/12/2024

The Rickshaw Run proving once again these three-wheeled heroes can reach heights spaceships only dream of.

Rickshaws don't know the word 'impossible' ... or any words at all, really.

More on the absurd achievements of our petrol powered cake tins coming soon.

On A Tucking Mission celebrates transforming local boat into floaty chaos machine. Now, what can we stack that boat onto...
05/12/2024

On A Tucking Mission celebrates transforming local boat into floaty chaos machine.

Now, what can we stack that boat onto?

Rickshaw Run India, April 2016.

Life crushing your soul one unread email at a time? Struggling to keep that one miserable kitchen plant alive? Or maybe ...
28/11/2024

Life crushing your soul one unread email at a time?

Struggling to keep that one miserable kitchen plant alive?

Or maybe you’re that one maniac still dodging the immortal killer snail?

Whatever your excuse, this is your sign to run for the hills. Literally. Rickshaw Run Himalaya 2025 goes in July.

26/11/2024

A brief glimpse of the Rickshaw Run 2017 finish line.

With a few thousand kilometers under their belts, you'd think our runners would have learnt how to drive them. One second you're cruising like a Bollywood hero, the next you're upside-down in a ditch.

Rickshaws were ever meant to corner at that speed... or any speed.

24/11/2024

In January 2024 Tuk Tuk Boom developed a new Sri Lankan slip and slide. If you’d like to come and pit your Rickshaw against Sri Lanka’s slitheriest backroad, sign up at:

https://tinyurl.com/avwdsm93

Threading the needle. This photo has got more honking than a goose wearing a clown nose playing a vuvuzela. Think you ca...
21/11/2024

Threading the needle. This photo has got more honking than a goose wearing a clown nose playing a vuvuzela.

Think you can survive the world’s most gloriously unhinged three-wheeled road trip? January and April 2025 are your next chances to find out.

Born on new year’s eve way back in 2006, this absolute behemoth of an adventure has seen legions of fools facing up to the gauntlet of spanning the rather excellent sub-continent in the ubiquitous 3 wheeled rolling turd. Mountains, deserts, bad roads no roads and traffic chaos, crouches like a tig...

Adventure 13 Test Run is now complete. The extensive data collected about the inevitable genius of the Electro-Wallah is...
19/11/2024

Adventure 13 Test Run is now complete. The extensive data collected about the inevitable genius of the Electro-Wallah is being compiled and analysed by the Institute of Adventure Research.

Their un-exhaustive field report will be published soon.

If you fancy Pioneering a brand new adventure get yourself on the list for two weeks early access...

https://tinyurl.com/2sn6kz8b

"Alvaro found this amazing spot just a little off the road in this amazing valley over 4.200m. Very scary putting our ri...
17/11/2024

"Alvaro found this amazing spot just a little off the road in this amazing valley over 4.200m. Very scary putting our rickshaws in place, but this picture was well worth it."⁠⠀
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It's quite hard showing just how massive the Himalayan mountains are but Anton used his tiny rickshaw as the perfect tool while he thundered over them on the Rickshaw Run back in 2018.

Next edition is in July 2025. More info:
https://www.theadventurists.com/rickshaw-run-himalaya

Rickshaw Roll’d tore through the Rickshaw Run in August 2019 like a drunk rhino in a flower shop, leaving a trail of stu...
16/11/2024

Rickshaw Roll’d tore through the Rickshaw Run in August 2019 like a drunk rhino in a flower shop, leaving a trail of stunned bystanders and baffled cows in their wake. Their rickshaw had “all-terrain” dreams, but alas, the durability of wet cardboard.

This lady is clearly puzzling over how the half-man, half-luggage rack ended up in the middle of her field. But let’s be honest — we're with Mariska, Billy, and Brad — there's nothing wrong with a little impromptu on the road yoga. You've got to look after yourself out there.

Leione and Jamie a.k.a Chai Of The Tiger ripped through the Himalayas on our August 2024 Rickshaw Run. "Run Himalayas 🇮🇳...
07/11/2024

Leione and Jamie a.k.a Chai Of The Tiger ripped through the Himalayas on our August 2024 Rickshaw Run.

"Run Himalayas 🇮🇳 🏔️ Jaisalmer to Leh: 2140 kilometres, 83 hours of driving, 11 days, 4 states, 1 tin on wheels and somehow 0 breakdowns or punctures" — Leione Lent.

Zero breakdowns. Zero punctures. Frankly, we're mortified. Our reputation as purveyors of unreliable junk is in tatters. We've dispatched a crew of angry gibbons armed with hammers to loosen random nuts, remove essential bolts, and generally make sure that 'reliability' never again darkens our doorstep.

A duet of nonsense by Shawn, Ryan, and Korben from Team Rock Bottom—2024's finest masters of "sod it and give it a go." ...
05/11/2024

A duet of nonsense by Shawn, Ryan, and Korben from Team Rock Bottom—2024's finest masters of "sod it and give it a go." They tore across Northeast India like a trio of teenagers on nicked bikes, pulling wheelies on crumbling roads and hanging off the edges of waterfalls like bored mountain goats.

A monstrous flag emblazoned "Several Bad Decisions Later." Bad decisions? Not a single one, just the kind of glorious, headlong sillyness we call fun.

The rickshaw is a stubborn, hardheaded beast. So when team Chickshaw told their adventure toaster, “you can’t swim and y...
03/11/2024

The rickshaw is a stubborn, hardheaded beast. So when team Chickshaw told their adventure toaster, “you can’t swim and you’re strictly a land vehicle,” guess who wasn’t listening: the rickshaw.

It’s got more unwarranted self-confidence than a finance bro pitching his latest crypto scheme at your family reunion. On land, it’s faster than a speeding slug; in water, it’s as hydrodynamic as a boulder wearing concrete flippers.

Pioneer the Wallah Run and find out for yourself if an electric tricycle with the survival instincts of a lemming and th...
02/11/2024

Pioneer the Wallah Run and find out for yourself if an electric tricycle with the survival instincts of a lemming and the navigational prowess of a blindfolded toddler can handle India.

https://www.theadventurists.com/adventure13/

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A 3,500km pan-Indian adventure in a 7 horsepower glorified lawnmower. The Rickshaw Run is easily the least sensible thing to do with two weeks. At each end of the Run is a party of earth shattering proportions but what is between them is all down to you. And luck - good or bad. No set route, no back-up, no way of knowing if you're going to make it. The only certainty is that you will get lost, you will get stuck and you will break down. It's just you and your mates in a wholly unsuitable vehicle, traversing the subcontinent enduring whatever s**t the road throws at you.