The Riders
Name: William Hemsley
Nationality: British
Nickname: The Elephant
DOB: 19th April 1982
Weight: 105kg!!
Height: 6ft 7in
Status: Relationship
Bike Name: The Impotencenator
Occupation: Project Manager
Will says: “Can we not cycle round the hills?”
Name: Nick McClelland
Nationality: Irish
Nickname: Benjamin Button
DOB: Nobody knows
Weight: 94kg
Height: 6ft
Status: Relationship
Bike Name: Mad Dog
Occupation: Corporate Adviser
Nick says: “They want to be mountain people, to get out of the valley, not to be equated with anyone else in life - they want to be different” Frank Dick
Name: Jon Hughes
Nationality: British
Nickname: Bushy
DOB: 25th January 1982
Weight: 90kg
Height: 6ft…maybe
Status: Relationship
Bike Name: Frieda
Occupation: Hedge Funder
Bush says: ”Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else takes its place. If I quit however, it lasts forever.” Lance Armstong
Name: Chris Brown
Nationality: Australian
Nickname: Brownie
DOB: 16th January 1978
Weight: 110kg
Height: 194cm
Status: TBC
Bike Name: TBC
Occupation: IT Architect
Chris says: ”Let’s burn that bridge when we get to it”
Name: Steve Kidd
Nationality: Scottish
Nickname: Skids
DOB: 4th March 1982
Weight: 100kg
Height: 6ft 3in
Status: Relationship
Bike Name:
Occupation: Banking
Steve says: ”Jambon et frites sil vous plait”
Name: Danny (Boy) Williams
Nationality: British
Nickname: Galactic Back
DOB: 5th January 197….?
Weight: 2.2 tonnes including my chopper
Height: 5ft 11in
Status: Taken….for a ride
Bike name: Skids
Occupation: Helicopter pilot
Danny says: ”Life’s journey is not about arriving safely at the grave in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn-out, shouting, ‘Holy sh*t! What a ride!”
Name: Doug Munro
Natioanlity: Scottish
Nickname: Dougernought
DOB: 3rd February 1979
Weight: A lot less than before
Height: 6ft 4in
Status: Relationship
Bike Name:
Occupation: Banking
Doug says: ”cheese of any type please”
Name: Dr Ray McClelland
Nationality: Irish
Nickname: The Doc
DOB: 4th March 1955!!!!
Weight: 13.5 stone
Height: 5ft 10.5in exactly
Status: Married
Bike Name: The Mighty Push
Occupation: Lady Doctor
Ray says: ”Don’t get sick guys - I haven’t treated a bloke for 30 years!”
Name: Michael Goodbody
Nationality: British
Nickname: The Giraffe/ Peter Crouch
DOB:
Weight: 102kg
Height: 6ft 7in
Status: Relationship
Bike Name:
Occupation: Writer…of sorts
Mike says: ”rrrraaaaghhhhh!!!!”
Name: Patrick O’Gorman
Nationality: Confused
Nickname: Poggy
DOB:
Weight: 96kg
Height: 6ft 3in
Status: Engaged
Bike Name: Lighthouse: Safe and secure, with flashes of brilliance
Occupation: Surveyor
Patrick says: ”Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up.”
Name: Iain Moss
Nationality: English
Nickname: Mossy
DOB: 22nd September 1982
Weight: 82kg
Height: 5ft 8in(ish)
Status: Taken
Bikes Name:
Occupation: Surveyor
Mossy says: ”Are we nearly there yet?”
Name: Chow Mezger
Nationality: English
Nickname: Chow
DOB: 5th October 1981
Weight: 11.5 stone
Height: 5ft 10in
Status: Single
Bike Name: Mildred
Occupation: Ice Creamer
Chow says: ”Let us run with perseverence the race marked out for us.” Hebrews 12:1
Name: Tom Kelly
Nationality: British
Nickname: TK/Buzz
DOB: 26th January 1982
Weight: 103kg
Height: 6ft 2in
Status: Defcon 3
Bike Name: The Red Rocket
Occupation: Solicitor
Tom says: ”If you ain’t first, you’re last.”
Name: Alexander Davey
Nationality: British
Nickname: Mini Bouff, Pistol Pete
DOB: 4th February 1973
Weight: 100kg
Height: 6ft 2in
Status: Single
Bike Name: Vlad the Impaler
Occupation: International Man of Mystery
Alex says: ”You want to impress a young lady, give her two tickets to the gun show” Ron Burgundy
Name: Tom Archer
Nationality: English
Nickname: Tommy/TJ
DOB: 31st March 1977
Weight: 12 stone
Height: 6ft
Status: Single
Bike Name: Electric Blue
Occupation: Banking
Tom says: ”If your not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.”
Name: Richard Skilton
Nationality: British
Nickname: Cunningham
DOB: 23rd August 1981
Weight: 76kg
Height: 5ft 11in
Status: Single
Bike Name: Kenneth
Occupation: Underwriter
Richard says: ”Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I’m here.” Lance Armstrong.
Name: Matthew Pratt
Nationaility: English
Nickname: Handsome
DOB: 12/01/1982
Weight: 73kg
Height: 5ft 9.5in
Status: Relationship
Bike Name: The Manatee
Occupation: Editor
Matt says: “Don’t just look at it, eat it”
Name: Chris Lanigan
Nationality: Australian
Nickname: Kipper
DOB: 21st September 1969
Weight: 124kg!!!!!!!!
Height: 6ft 2in
Status: Relationship
Bike Name: Can’t repeat - especially when going uphill!
Occupation: IT Networks
Chris says: ”600 miles on a motorbike…no problem”
Name: Dr Peter McFaul
Nationality: Irish
Nickname: Pistol Pete
DOB: 16th march 1956!
Weight: 14st
Height: 5ft 11in
Status: Married
Bike Name: Vélo Volant
Occupation: Doctor specializing in reproductive medicine and obstetrics
Pete says: ”‘Bananas’ - eat them or sit on them”
Name: Andrew James Eggleton
Nationality: Scottish
Nickname: Eggy
DOB: 24th January 1984
Weight: 12st 9lbs
Height: 6ft
Status: Under the thumb
Bike Name: Pegasus 4 - The un-nickable (fingers crossed)
Occupation: Doctor
Andy says: ”in the words of Freddie Mercury ‘I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle…’ ”
Name: Paul Thomas Jones
Nationality: Welsh
Nickname: Boris Becker
DOB: 1st November 1983
Height: 5ft 9in
Weight: 81kg
Status: In a relationship
Bike Name: Apollo 18
Occupation: Doctor
Paul says: ’It is always too soon to quit’ Norman Vincent Peale
Name: Michael McGinlay
Nationality: Scottish
Nickname: McGin
DOB: 2oth January 1985
Height: 5ft 10in
Weight: 72kg
Status: In a relationship
Bike Name: The Falcon Flyer
Occupation: Doctor
Michael says: ”Life is like a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep on moving” Albert Einstein
Name: Robert Blum
Nationality: Australian
Nickname: Buzzard
DOB: 2nd July 1980
Height: 6ft 3in
Weight: 85kg
Status: In a relationship
Bike Name: The Magnet
Occupation: Doctor
Rob says: ”If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” Jack Handy (Deep Thoughts)
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