Trans Pennine Challenge

Fantastic news!

We’ve had the last lot of sponsorship through and it’s taken us over the £2,500 target.

Many thanks to so, so many of you for making this possible. We’re delighted with the results.

You can still sponsor us, even now, if you’ve not done so already. Just head over to the sponsorship pages.

Cheers!

Doesn’t time fly by! We’ll be getting saddled up and on the trail in just 3½ weeks time.

Our plans at the moment are to travel to Terry’s sister’s on the Wednesday night before the challenge. We can then leave hers around 5am to get to the start of the trail, in Southport, for a 6am. We figured that the earlier we start the more we’ll get through in one day. Perhaps we’ll even make it to Penistone on day one!

A few months ago I approached a few cycle shops hoping to secure some loan mountain bikes. Most, at the time, didn’t have anything other than road bikes available. Now that it’s closer to the time I intend to visit a store local to my work during a dinner hour to see if they’ve some demonstrator bikes they can lend us for the challenge. If they don’t we’re going to at least see if we can strike some sort of deal with them with regards to spares. We can do the challenge on our own bikes; however it’s going to be a lot more comfortable for us if we’re able to secure some (expensive) loan bikes. If you’re aware of someone that could help us with this then please get in touch! We’re happy to offer advertising on this site in return and will wear T-shirts etc. whilst riding.

In the meantime we’re working on getting our sponsorship increased. We’re really pleased with what we’ve had contributed so far. A massive thanks to all those who’ve opened their wallets and made a difference. If you’ve not done so yet then we’d be delighted if you please would by clicking this little link.

Cheers!