Comedian Tony Hawks is spending this week cycling around Devon – with a small pig!
The author and funnyman is cycling from coast to coast with the micro pig called Titch.
Tony – who hitch hiked around Ireland with a fridge and played the entire Moldovan national football team at tennis – is doing his latest stunt to raise money for kids with cerebral palsy at a centre he opened in Moldova.
Tony, who lives in Devon, will set off on his trek on Tuesday from Barnstaple and hopes to cross the finishing line with his little porcine friend on Friday in Plymouth.
He will carry Titch in a basket on the front of his Axcess electric bike which he is being loaned by a company in Honiton but has also installed a pet pannier on the back in case of rain.
He said:"I am doing it for a bet and to raise money for charity. I chose a pig because someone bet me that I couldn't walk round Devon with their pet pig which was called Dave.
"They then disappeared but they'd already whet my appetite for the idea. I am carrying a micro pig because it is all I get can into the basket of a bike.
"The pig will be in the basket at the front - and if it rains - in a pet carrier on the back. My route will take me just over 100 miles.
"I'm not taking the fridge this time but it will be there to see us off. It's too old for this kind of thing now."
