Duo’s charity ride across Andes a real cliff-hanger

IT’S been described as the worst machine ever invented: it drags a sofa behind it, does a maximum speed of 60km/h, hates hills and is prone to breakdowns.

Duo’s charity ride across Andes a real cliff-hanger

Yet Eoin Murphy from West Cork is planning to drive a mototaxi —a 125cc motorbike with a couch attached — 2,000km across the Andes mountains, through jungles and deserts and along the winding cliff-hanger roads of Peru.

But it’s all for a good cause — the gruelling two-week trek, which he is doing with friend and work colleague Stephen Fitzmaurice, is in aid of charity.

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