Unfortunately, due to current circumstances, we are unable to mark the occasion with our usual large gathering of eager cyclists, however we have thought up three great alternatives; fundraising activities to suit everyone, to assist us in our ongoing efforts to raise awareness of childhood and young adult cancer and raise funds for The Chris […]
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News Update from Great North Bike Ride for 2020
It is with huge regret and sadness that we must announce the Great North Bike Ride will not go ahead on Sunday 30th August 2020 and we must cancel this year’s event. Within the current guidelines and the fluidity of the ongoing crisis, it is unfortunately not sensibly possible to reschedule to another date this year. […]
PRESS RELEASE: Great North Bike Ride 2020
It is with regret that we must advise of the cancellation of the Great North Bike Ride for 2020. The charity event, created to raise funds for the Chris Lucas Trust, supporting research into childhood cancer, is now in it’s 20th year and was due to take place on the 30th August. Organisers of the […]
Sun smiles on the Great North Bike Ride as over 1,000 cyclists honour memory of one Wallsend teen
Watching huge teams of cyclists stream up to Tynemouth Priory, they knew the thousands of pounds they had raised and the thousands of miles they’d cycled between them were all in memory of the son they lost just after his 18th birthday. The Great North Bike Ride , which took place on Sunday, is set to […]
Cyclists braved a wet and windy and grey day to ride 60 miles down the Northumberland Coast to raise cash to fight cancer.
The Great North Bike Ride is raced in the memory of Chris Lucas, a teenager from Wallsend who died after contracting a rare form of cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, which he bravely fought for three years. The Chris Lucas Trust was set up in his name, to raise money which funds research into rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer which grows in muscles. […]