With £5464 in fundraising (plus additional donations from Wigan & Leigh Friendship Club and friends in Blyth); new team kit courtesy of Dr1ve Medicals and TOMACO The Tool Marketing Company not to mention Wigan’s favourite sweet in their saddle bags to keep them going thanks to Uncle Joe's Mint Balls; isotonic drinks & gels from Impact Performance and bikes geared up to outperform even the top cyclist’s courtesy of Evans Cycles …..all we need now is a little bit of Madness (the band not the emotion) ….

I went riding on my bike (He went riding on his bike)
With a spanner, pump, back and front light (With a spanner, pump, back and front light)
That's all I need to ride in (That's all I need to ride in)
A marathon I'm entering (A marathon I'm entering)
I'm raising for a charity
Sponsors come running to me
I've learnt to cut that yellow line
And park my bike there at any time