The Challenge
Jamie Dobb, the last Briton to win a Motocross World Championship, one of the most punishing motorsports on the planet and Kelvin Fletcher, now a veteran actor of ‘Emmerdale’, will team up to cycle 1000 miles (almost 1500km) in just ten days. Cycle of Wishes will cover a daunting path through the Pyrenees before snaking up through France to Le Harve, across the channel to Portsmouth and then via Oxford to the Derbyshire race venue.
The riders will be in the saddle from anything from six to nine hours a day.
“We have been putting in the hours recently and we are getting ready to go,” said Dobb. “We are under no illusions about how hard this will be but as I have been saying right from the birth of the project, ten days of hard work is nothing compared to what the children and the families that the Make-A-Wish foundation are able to reach actually have to go through. The truth is that Cycle of Wishes will be an absolute pleasure to do when we think about the joy the money and support can bring to the kids.”
Make-A-Wish
Make-A-Wish was founded in the UK in June 1986 and, since then, they have granted over 4,700 wishes. At any given time, over 20,000 children in the UK are living with life-threatening conditions and their aim is to grant 21 wishes a week by the year 2010. Jamie Dobb has been supporting the foundation since the turn of the century.
