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Lisburn Outlook
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25/10/2024
Lisburn Outlook group
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This Burnout, they do numerous things, there's walking groups and all sorts, but the part
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that I get involved in is the tandeming, and it's people that are out wanting to go cycling
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but can't because they're partially sighted, so obviously it wouldn't be safe for them
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to go out on their own. A sighted person goes out in the tandems with the partially sighted
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folk in the back.
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I'm David Mann, I'm now Joint Secretary of Lisbon Outlook, and I've been involved in the
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tandem riding for, well ever since we started really, a dozen years or so. These days I'm
01:00
virtually totally blind, when I was younger I had quite a bit more sight, quite useful
01:06
sight, but never been able to see well enough to ride a bike safely on the open road, so
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I've never had the experience of cycling as a younger person. I'm not interested in going
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to the gym or anything like that, but it's exercise that actually gets you somewhere,
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in this company as well, fresh air, all those things really. It's a sort of feeling of freedom
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if you like, just moving along, but moving along with a purpose.
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The person in the back can't see the potholes or the ramps on the road or anything like
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that, and also there's some blind, some partially sighted, but some of the men, they know the
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route and if you mention the road you're turning onto or whereabouts you are, it gives them
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an idea, and they I'm sure pick up sights and sounds from the different, like when you're
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coming close to the motorway, they know they're crossing over the M1 bridges and things like
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that, and they would get sights and sounds from different places, but part of the calendary
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is you let them know where they are on the road and what, we're coming up to traffic
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lights here, and then I always tell them that you're going to stop, and we usually count
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it down as 3, 2, 1, and stopping, because you can't just stick the brakes on because
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they don't know what's happening behind you.
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I can only see light, dark and shadows. I enjoy the company, I enjoy the freedom I've
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been able to go out on the bike, and get the benefit of the exercise and the fresh
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air, and I don't feel like I have a disability.
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I suppose a lot of people would maybe see it as if you go to a gym membership or something
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or you're in a club of some description, if you were going out yourself for some exercise,
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you'd think it's a wee bit cold this morning, or it looks like it might rain, I'll not bother,
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I'll leave it, but on a Saturday morning, if I don't go out, it means someone else can't
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go out, so you've always got that wee drag, thinking, well, make the effort and get out
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there, you know.
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I feel like my blindness doesn't matter, it doesn't affect me the way it does in other
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parts of life. I can't thank them enough for it, I really can't thank them enough for their
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time, their support, their friendship, and their dedication to making a difference to
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people's lives. We wouldn't be able to do it without them.
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