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Hi Blues.

I am planning to cycle from the City of Manchester Stadium to Tromso in the Norwegian Arctic Circle in June 2010 wearing my City shirt all the way, in a bid to raise money for the Christies NHS Trust. It is a trip of around 2,500 miles. Christies are opening a new Patient Treatment Centre in Manchester and need £13million worth of donations to do so. I am attempting to raise £2,000 towards this cause.

If you would like to donate any money towards the building of the new Patient Treatment Centre then you can do here:
http://www.justgiving.com/Thom-Partridge

I follow City home and away and have a season ticket in East Stand Lower 109. If you would like to answer any questions regarding the cycle then you can email me at richwilson_39@hotmail.com or on this thread. We will be doing a blog so you can follow our progress and all details will be posted on here closer to the leaving date.

Thanks for reading. Any donation, however small or great will be hugely appreciated.

Richard Wilson

CTID

No problem Richard. I will leave this as a sticky for a couple of months and hopefully it will get a few people throwing a few quid in.

It's a fantastic thing to do for a brilliant charity, good luck with it mate.

King Kev wrote:No problem Richard. I will leave this as a sticky for a couple of months and hopefully it will get a few people throwing a few quid in.

It's a fantastic thing to do for a brilliant charity, good luck with it mate.

Thanks alot King Kev. Very much appreciated. CTID

That shirt is gonna stink to high heaven after 2500 miles.

I've tried 3 times to sponsor you but the site won't let me. Will try again tomorrow.

Sunjihai as soon as pay day arrives ill will be sponsoring you no problem mate well worth the money as we probably all have someone who has suffered with this horrible thing.
Also whilst talking of sponsored bike rides i have a mate who has just set off today travelling from huddersfield to gibralter i dont know how long your planning to take to do your trip but hes doing it alone and is hopefully going to do it within 10 days i think it is anyway good luck to you and i hope the boys on here get behind you

Thanks alot Nick and King Kev. I don't know why Just Giving isn't working at the moment, if it doesn't work next time then let me know and I will contact them to let them know there's a problem. Cheers

Can I ask- why Tromso?

BlueinBosnia wrote:Can I ask- why Tromso?

I think it's world's northernmost City or something like that.

Slim wrote:That shirt is gonna stink to high heaven after 2500 miles.

he's going to get his bike wet as well ;o)

site working now btw.

BlueinBosnia wrote:Can I ask- why Tromso?

I wanted to go to the Arctic Circle, and therefore Tromso fitted the bill perfectly.

sunjihai17 wrote:

BlueinBosnia wrote:Can I ask- why Tromso?

I wanted to go to the Arctic Circle, and therefore Tromso fitted the bill perfectly.

so we're paying you to go somewhere you wanted to go anyway? class ;o)

Socrates wrote:

sunjihai17 wrote:

BlueinBosnia wrote:Can I ask- why Tromso?

I wanted to go to the Arctic Circle, and therefore Tromso fitted the bill perfectly.

so we're paying you to go somewhere you wanted to go anyway? class ;o)

Haha. I take it you are JF? Thanks very much for the donation mate and if it is not you thank you to whoever JF is!

sunjihai17 wrote:

Socrates wrote:

sunjihai17 wrote:

BlueinBosnia wrote:Can I ask- why Tromso?

I wanted to go to the Arctic Circle, and therefore Tromso fitted the bill perfectly.

so we're paying you to go somewhere you wanted to go anyway? class ;o)

Haha. I take it you are JF? Thanks very much for the donation mate and if it is not you thank you to whoever JF is!

your welcome, good luck and nice username too, loved Sun :O)

Best of luck with your trip, a great cause too.

If anyone is interested we now have a website at http://arcticbikeride.com/ which includes a blog (we started training today) as well as other information including a route map, information about Christies, photos and other such things.

Thanks for the £55 raised so far and just to let you know this is £15 more than Bluemoon has raised! So keep up the good work and don't let the Bluemoon mob beat you.

Thanks again, the money is going to a great cause.

Great stuff mate, will make sure to make a donation when I get my wages this week and I'll stick a link up on facebook too.

Fantastic effort that, fair play to you.

you do not give any specific dates (i am away 1st wek of june) but as a keen cyclist myself and member of a local c.c ,i would be prepared to ride out the first 50ish miles with you and include other club members (weekends) for support.

That would be great mate. You would be more than welcome to cycle the first 50 miles with us. I think we are planning on leaving Monday 14th June. Email me for more details. Richard