Cycle India 2010

Update for the cyclists taking part in Cycle India 2010:
During our recent trip to India, Dr Prasad and I visited the Coorg area to check out the route for Cycle India. We travelled with a group of people including Nitin, the organiser of Cycle India, and Dr Siva (one of the organisers of the […]

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Wednesday 2 January
A group of twenty-eight intrepid adventurers, including some non-cycling loved ones, left Gatwick on Wednesday morning, bound for Hyderabad via Dubai.
We arrived in Hyderabad at breakfast time the next morning, for the start of two days of travelling within India to get to the starting point of the bike ride.
Thursday 3 January
After a […]

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We’ve created a Cycle India Facebook group where people who have taken part in the previous event, or looking forward to Cycle India 2010 (or even those just interested) can communicate with each other.

There’s only 14 members so far, but we’ve only just set it up. If you’re on Facebook it would be great […]

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This is an amusing outtake from Cycle India 2008, where one of the cyclists explains to camera why he was keen to get involved in the Heal charity bike ride:

The beautiful scenery in the background is the Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh. There will be plenty of opportunities to experience similar fantanstic location in […]

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Our organiser for Cycle India 2010 - Nitin - has recently visited Karnataka and taken some film footage of the area, showing some of the fantastic sites we may experience:

It certainly looks like it’s going to be a fantastic event to match and even surpass Cycle India 2008.
There’s still places available as we’re still in […]

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The following video shows scenes from Cycle India 2008, and the type of things you may expect on the next charity bike ride we’re arranging for January 2010. There’s also footage of the Heal Children’s Village - Heal’s flagship project in Andhra Pradesh, where we look after over 200 orphaned children.

If you’re interested in […]

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Would you like to take part in Cycle India 2010?
Well, if you’re not sure, following is the unedited account of what Cycle India 2008 was all about from one of the cyclists who took part - Ian Fulton.

Wednesday 2 January
A group of twenty-eight intrepid adventurers, including some non-cycling loved ones, left Gatwick on Wednesday morning, bound for […]

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Friday 4 January
The choices the next morning were to be ready to leave at 6:30 or, if you wanted to do a trip to the nearby temple, be ready at 5:30. At this time, we thought 6:30 was an early start (little did we know) and decided to miss the temple in favour of beauty […]

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Saturday 5 January
Cycle time! The order was to meet in reception for a 5.45am departure because we had a long day and wanted to avoid cycling in the middle of the day if possible. Time keeping was improving – we left at 6.45.
We took our bus to the outskirts of Rajahmundry (stopping to fit in […]

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Sunday 6 January
Up at 5am to grab your hot water, followed by breakfast outside in the dark at 6 and ready to say goodbye to the Bishop at 7, and off on our bikes at 7.30 for our second day of cycling to an immediate realisation that I had grown extra bones in my backside […]

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