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Mark Bright encourages people across UK to get on their bike for prostate cancer
Ex-footballer and pundit, Mark Bright, encourages people get on their bikes, as new research reveals that a quarter of bike owners cycle only a handful of times a year
Television pundit, Mark Bright, is throwing his weight behind a new campaign from The Prostate Cancer Charity to get people across the UK to take to two wheels – in the wake of new research looking at cycling habits across the country.
Despite an overwhelming 82 per cent of bike owners in Britain choosing to take to the saddle as a form of exercise, a quarter of these would-be cyclists will do so only a handful of times throughout the year, a survey for the Charity revealed.
The Prostate Cancer Charity believes it may have come up with the perfect opportunity for people to get into get into gear more often, by staging five cycling events across the UK, in partnership with The Tour of Britain.
The survey also revealed that almost half of bike owners have never cycled further than 25km in a day, allowing the Charity to throw down the gauntlet to casual riders, who might only get on a bike to and from work, to train for the ride of their lives, and take on a distance of up to 200km for the Charity.
There are 250,000 men living with prostate cancer in the UK and it is a disease which kills one man every hour. As research from the Charity reveals, cycling is a past time that is particularly popular amongst men over the age of 45 – a time when men need to be more aware of the disease. Through their Tour Rides, the Charity hopes that these events will get people to think more about their health and to get involved in raising vital funds which will help support the 37,000 men diagnosed with the disease each year in the UK.
Last year saw 4,500 cyclists raise £520,000 across three events, and this year the Charity have increased its offering to five rides across the British Isles to give as many people as possible the chance to flavour what a professional cyclist will experience in the Tour of Britain – the UK’s answer to the Tour de France.