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'NGP Productions is a video production company based in the north west of England. We produce high quality work for international broadcast and corporate clients.'

David Clapham,
Managing Director
NGP Productions

SCOOTERMAN
A new production project charting SCOOTERMAN Matt Parry's journey East to West across the United States. The project will be designed for terrestrial and satellite television broadcast and will include an intercam link accessible via the N.G.P web site.

Updated: January 2002

SCOOTERMAN - the story so far...

Some would call him intrepid ...others might say he is mad...but in the Spring of 2001, 'Scooterman' Matheu Parry will ride from the East coast to the West coast of America on a push scooter!

"I wanted to do a journey on something a bit different", says Matt of Brierfield, Lancashire. "I'm using an ergonomically sound, state of the art upgraded version of a children's push scooter with inflatable tyres."

In 1996 Matt journeyed all 935 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats to create a new world record for push scootering. In 1997 he used the same autoped to break the world 24-hour record, travelling 160 miles round the Aintree Race Track (where Stirling Moss won the British Grand Prix in 1957).

To test out the autoped on different terrain, Matt followed the first three stages of the Tour de France from Dublin to Cork in 1998. Matt travelled 60 miles a day and began his ultimate send off by first ascending the Wicklow mountains - the highest mountain in Southern Ireland.

On June 9th and 10th Scooterman broke his own World Record for 24-hour scooting at the Seed Hill Athletic Track, Nelson in Lancashire, England. Starting at 1 pm on Friday Matt scooted throughout the night until the following morning in adverse weather conditions. Finally and on the point of exhaustion, breaking his existing record by one mile, covering a distance of 161 miles within the 24-hour period. Guinness World Records are currently ratifying this achievement.

This event was filmed by a crew from BBC TV "Record Breakers", and is scheduled for transmission in the Autumn.

So far Matt has attracted the attention of national newspapers in the UK, including The Daily Mail, The Daily Star, The Daily Telegraph, Sun, The Sunday People and The Guardian. Local newspaper coverage includes: Liverpool Daily Post and Echo and the Nelson Leader. Featured articles include: Loaded Magazine.

Television coverage has included: "The Big Breakfast" Channel 4; BBC North West; Channel One; Carlton TV and Granada Television. The trip across America is being featured in a Discovery Channel magazine programme to be screened in the Autumn of 2000 and will be the subject of a documentary being produced by NGP Productions Ltd.

As a result of Matt's recent promotional visit to New York he can be seen on the Atom Films web site being interviewed with Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Films.

Matt has also made personal appearances at the Edinburgh Festival, the Highland Games in Scotland, at the 1999 Glastonbury Festival and has exhibited 'Scoot-Amelia' at the Static Gallery in Liverpool.

Scooterman sponsors include: Veriflex Push Scooters, John Moores University, USA Athletic Sportswear, Nelson & Colne College, Everton and Burnley Football Clubs, Lucozade, API Sponsorship Consultants, John Moores University, Bill Bryson - travel writer, and ASDA.

'Scooterman' - a seven-minute promotional tape is available to potential sponsors on request.