The three Westhead lads featured in yesterday's ITV Wales news, with one of them telling how a crash with a truck in China brought a premature end to their mammoth cycling trip to Thailand to see an old friend and the other two describing the whole adventure as being like a dream.
Nineteen-year-olds Dyfan Hughes from Llangollen, Louis Dennis from Garth and James Thomas from Wrexham were on a 10,000-mile cycling trip in memory of Tony Edge, the father of their friend Harrison, who died following a heart attack in 2024, and along the way raised well over £50,000 for the British Heart Foundation.
But on one of the final legs of the journey Dyfan was seriously injured after being hit by the truck near the city of Chengdu.
After treatment in a local hospital he was back home last week after a 13-hour flight from Asia in a specially adapted plane with a doctor and nurse on hand.
After some initial observation at Wrexham Maelor he at last returned to his own home and has started his rehabilitation process.
Speaking about the crash, which left him with a catalogue of serious injuries, on yesterday's news he told reporter Rob Shelley: "You never really think it's going to happen to you, then I just woke up in a hospital bed.
After scenes of him being stretchered into hospital in the Chinese city of Chengdu he added: "We just had 50 days left to finish the trip."
Asked about the people they met along the trail, Louis said: "The people in Asia were the nicest to us - people with the least amount of stuff."
Later in the report Louis said: "Being back home feels really weird. It feels like it (the trip) never really happened. It's like a dream I've woken up from."
Both he and James were certain that they'd be back in the saddle and bound for Thailand again as soon as Dyfan was fit enough and then Rob Shelley suggested that maybe after they'd completed the journey from the point where they were forced to leave off they'd just keep on going, with Louis agreeing they just might.
The reporter then explained that the lads had called themselves the Westheads as it was Llangollen slang for "slightly mad" but added: "but maybe just a little bit inspired."
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