That's Riccardo Gravina, he features in the PBP 2007 and LEL 209 DVDs. He turned up at the campsite at PBP 2007 without a tent or Karrimat, so we lent him both, then we fed him, then he announced that his back wheel was knackered about 2 hours before the start. So I spent the time I should have been preparing, changing his cassette onto Heather's wheel. He's a lovable chancer.
At PBP 2011 he wandered into the pre-departure meal, wild-eyed and looking to borrow a bike so he could ride along, he said he was living rough, and doing some courier work, but he was obviously a bit out of it. I last saw him waving a flag made from a bin-liner and a bit of the shrubbery just at the start. I'll have to find out what's happened to him.