{"id":5641,"date":"2012-10-15T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/10\/15\/77-yo-irish-hiwheel-cyclist-is-international-trick-champion\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:07:22","slug":"77-yo-irish-hiwheel-cyclist-is-international-trick-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/10\/15\/77-yo-irish-hiwheel-cyclist-is-international-trick-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"77 yo Irish HiWheel Cyclist is International Trick Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Peter Matthews offers his UK audience seven minutes worth of tricks.\u00a0Filmed in 2006, Peter was 70 years old at the time. Based in Dublin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewheelmen.org\/sections\/americanjourneys\/sanderson_matthews\/default.asp\">he also HiWHeeled across the USA in 2004<\/a>\u00a0with Gary Sanderson:<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-bIuhkXQA2Tk\/UKd5nx50YII\/AAAAAAAAAsw\/a8Di6zGoot4\/s1600\/day28b.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-bIuhkXQA2Tk\/UKd5nx50YII\/AAAAAAAAAsw\/a8Di6zGoot4\/s400\/day28b.jpg?resize=383%2C400\" width=\"383\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewheelmen.org\/sections\/americanjourneys\/sanderson_matthews\/pics1.asp\">photos<\/a> from their ride across America<\/div>\n<p>Peter still does tricks. \u00a0See them at the end of the recent interview below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Px14jXXtCNg\/UMOT8TijjyI\/AAAAAAAAAxY\/rBQ9fV5limw\/s1600\/IMG_0719.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Px14jXXtCNg\/UMOT8TijjyI\/AAAAAAAAAxY\/rBQ9fV5limw\/s400\/IMG_0719.jpg?resize=300%2C400\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bikeroute.com\\\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\\\/2012\\\/10\\\/15\\\/77-yo-irish-hiwheel-cyclist-is-international-trick-champion\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:58030937}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; 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