He reached Twatt in Orkney on Wednesday but broke down near Cairn O'Mount in Aberdeenshire, and had to finish his challenge by Uber. "It's been an adventure," he told the BBC.
After his friend died, Taylor said he wanted to do something "to help beat this awful disease" and believed his "Moronic Moped Marathon" was "a suitably ridiculous place to start".
His journey began on August 18 and saw him take in Booze in the Yorkshire Dales, Brawl in the Highlands, and Cockpole Green in Berkshire. Street names on his itinerary included The Knob in King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Butthole Lane in Shepshed, Leicestershire, and Titty Ho in Raunds, Northamptonshire. Before his moped broke down, Taylor's Slovenian Tomos XL45 Classic had a top speed of 28mph.
Locations on the Moronic Moped Marathon included:
- Ass Hill, Wimborne, Dorset
- Sandyballs holiday village, New Forest
- Pishill, Oxfordshire
- Titty Ho, Raunds, Northamptonshire
- Willey, Warwickshire
- Penistone, South Yorkshire
- Upperthong, West Yorkshire
- Cockfield, County Durham
- Ogle, Northumberland
- Cockermouth, Cumbria
- Clitheroe, Lancashire
- Bell End, Worcestershire
After completing the challenge, Taylor said: "I'm
pleased to be going back to see my wife and my dogs. When you have a mission or purpose you keep going… and then when you stop you realize how tired you are.
"I'm tired and happy and reflective on what happened and how crazy it all was. Obviously this is a different period of my life that will probably never be repeated again. Everything goes back to normal now, it's obviously quite a mad time."
However, Mr Taylor said he was considering a "Version 2.0" of his journey in the future, this time traveling west to east. "You couldn't squeeze all the silliness in one expedition," he said.
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