#RideForCharlie

#RideForCharlie Launches

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It’s just over six months since Charlie Craig sadly passed away in his sleep (original report here). He was national under-16 CX champion, and loved riding bikes. In the time since, his family have begun setting up a new charity: Ride For Charlie. The aim is to support upcoming young riders, but to do that, they need your help.

By every account, Charlie was as lovely as his dad, Nick, who’s been dubbed “the nicest man in mountain biking”.

“Charlie was a special boy who went to sleep on Friday the 20 January and didn’t wake up, he was 15. He left his family and friends in a state of shock and an incredible hole in our hearts. We miss him more every day.

Our aim is to support young off road cyclists, who are or would have been inspired by Charlie to follow in his pedal strokes. Our vision is to allocate funding to self motivated young individuals, who will be appraised for eligibility by the trustees.

We want to hear from young boys and girls age 14 and above who ride off-road bikes and have been inspired by stories of Charlie and his life.

Our vision is to allocate funding to self motivated young individuals, who will be appraised for eligibility by the trustees.

Please write to us via email with your request for support, to “rideforcharlie”. As trustees we will read all applications and hope to provide contributions to your ideas and dreams.”

At present, you can support them by means of buying a #RideForCharlie mug or shirt, which are available through their partners Bike Ninja. You can find out more about Charlie, and more about their plans, on their website. They’re also accepting donations.

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All kinds of people are also joining in on Instagram with the hashtag #RideForCharlie. You can see there Charlie’s not only missed by his folks, but by plenty of people on the Cross Country and Cylcocross scenes.

David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly. Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.

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