Enter This Years Charity Challenge

We are still looking for more riders for this years event on the 14th August.

Scunthorpe - Wootton Bassett 180 Mile charity challenge.

A total of 100 riders will be able to ride this massive 180 in a day challenge. Full ride support will be provided in the form of full route marking, feed stations every 30 miles, hot meal at Wootton Bassett, support vehicles, return coach travel and a cemomorative cycling top, all this for a £45 entry fee. The only other thing that we ask is that each rider raises by sponsorship for this years charity (Help for Heroes this year) £200.

No profit is made from this venture, costs are covered and all of the money raised by riders is given to the charity chosen.

If you wish to participate, please email: matthew_john_porter@yahoo.co.uk for an entry form.

The route to be used is shown below, on the 'Map my Ride' post.

Treaderz

Bike Reviews Please

Hi all, we have been asked to give our opinions to a cycle comparison website, Wheel Hub- http://www.wheelhub.co.uk/ in relation to bikes. They would like to give real reviews to bikes rather than manufacturers spec sheets. The reviews can also be about passed rides etc, this is what Bob from Wheel Hub wrote to me;

So we’re offering to put up logos, link to charity rides, donations pages or whatever you want, in return for getting about 500 words from riders about their bikes, perhaps with an account of a previous ride. It doesn’t have to be award winning journalism - a lot of cyclists enjoy talking about their bikes at length, so its just a matter of putting it down on paper ! There’s a couple of examples here:

www.wheelhub.co.uk/Bikes/Scott/Scott-Addict-CX.cfm

www.wheelhub.co.uk/Bikes/Cannondale/Cannondale-Taurine-Bike.cfm (this one's for team publicity)

Accounts of previous rides will work quite well, as long as there’s information about how the bike behaved, how the rider rates it, changes made to the basic bike etc.



There will only be one ‘review’ per bike and it lasts for the whole of 2010, so can be used to publicise different rides as you go through the year. If you’ve got several riders with different bikes, they can all send an article and your ride can be publicised on each page.

So if you can help please email on;

rides@wheelhub.co.uk