This Paddy Mcguiness cycle challenge….

. he will attempt to complete the route on an iconic, BBC Children in Need customised and modified, Raleigh Chopper bike.

300 miles over 5 days. OMGiddy aunt.

Modified handlebars and a proper saddle. 300 miles in 5 days, hardly a tough ask.

300 miles in 5 days, hardly a tough ask.

It’s all relative – I might well be ok, but for a non-cyclist that’s pretty intimidating

Sounds like a nice pr stunt. I’m sure with many support vehicles and crew it won’t be that hard.

Im sure there will be lots of stories about how he suffered and the ordeal of it to make telly clips.

Call me cynical

Sixty miles a day for five days on a bike designed for the job is a pretty big ask for most people who don’t ride a lot

But to then do it on a raleigh chopper?

Even with a proper saddle and ‘modified handlebars’ which are really just the handlebars from the latest chopper its not going to be a breeze.

Will raise loads of money though, to the average UK citizen it’s a huge undertaking so will raise a wad of cash..

I don’t care about the stunt, I really can’t bear to watch him.

Why do you think he doesn’t ride a lot?

At the very least he’s been training for it as he’s using the saddle he trained with.

He’s obviously generally a fit bloke, probably in the gym 5 times a week.

60 miles day, ride 7 hours a day. Average 8.5mph. It’s hardly the Roubaix.

Well that’s poured the usual load of piss and misery over it 8-(

Hope he makes a pile of cash for charity. Good on him.

Yep pretty much.

Don’t like it… Don’t donate to a good cause?

Miserable grumps be grumpin’

It’s hardly the Roubaix.

I don’t think anyone including him is claiming it is. He’s doing a physical challenge to raise money for charity. Obviously the challenge is laughable to the STW cycling gods, but to the public (and me AIH) it seems quite tough. The novel bike and publicity will probably help fill the charity buckets. He’s not my cup of tea as a TV ‘personality’ but good on him for doing this. If he gets a side benefit of raising his profile a bit, I don’t begrudge him that.

some right miseries on here, jessus wept

Hope he makes a pile of cash for charity.

Im sure it will. I just don’t need to get wrapped in the sensationalism surrounding it. I’m sure he has been training for it all summer. It’s not like he is going to turn up on day one and go what’s this about.

Instead of moaning …. Join up with his ride and do a stint on the front for him.

It’s not like he is going to turn up on day one and go what’s this about.

I dunno, you have basically  described my approach to an event.

I’m sure he has been training for it all summer. It’s not like he is going to turn up on day one and go what’s this about.

Yeah, training for a charity event to make sure you complete it, imagine that? What a charlatan. FFS this place.

“Paddy McGuinness is coming to the Corn Exchange, in the market town, at Christmas, with his joke.”

Some folk on here need to give their heads a wobble.

60 miles for one day isn’t a lot. Over 5 consecutive days on a ridiculous bike, to my mind, it’s quite a lot.

I think I’m negative and a drain to be around, turns out I’m an amateur at the whole fun sponge thing.

What’s the opposite of virtue signalling?

Rather spend 5 days riding with Paddy McGuinness than some of the riding heroes on here.

I’m not being negative.

FWIW I find him quite entertaining and I love Phoenix Nights.

However, he’s always been a bit of an athlete, think he played football at a decent level and he obviously trains regularly.

Just don’t think it’s a massive challenge for him.

They had much tougher cycling stuff for Children in Need previously.

Just don’t think it’s a massive challenge for him

Surely  it’s just to provide some entertainment in exchange for monies.

Up until this thread I rather thought that was the point, not to attempt to set new records or anything like that.

I will only donate for every mile done no handed

Hands up, for someone who tries to craft his words correctly, I got that one wrong.  It’s a good stunt for a worthwhile cause, but I just wish McGuinness wasn’t the protagonist; I think he could walk across water or turn the water into wine, charm birds from the trees and manage to England to World Cup victory, but he’d grind my gears in doing so.

I was surprised that it was over 5 days, initially I thought it was going to be all in one go, which imho would be on a par with last years challenge where Vernon Kay ran 116 miles over 4 days.

@natrix – That’s my point.

If you are going to pass the hat round for money, then it should be a major challenge for an individual.

The marathons of Eddie Izzard is probably the sort of thing I think of.

See exactly the same arguments we had when that lass did similar last year

My tuppence worth..

As a fit cyclist, to me 60 Miles is a piece of piss. Do it 5 times on the trot and you’ll probably feel it a bit

Do it on a Raleigh chopper…screw that..I’d struggle for sure

It may not be a challenge on the scale of climbing k2 in flip-flops, but it’s more of a feat than the usual donation requests I get for a ‘charity abseil’, or similar nonsense

If you are going to pass the hat round for money, then it should be a major challenge for an individual.

it’s for a charity that helps underprivileged children. It’s hardly begging, it’s raising money for charity by doing something entertaining you miseryguts.

im interested to see how a bloke that tall gets on riding a bike with a 20” back wheel.

Yeah, I’ve changed my mind. Underprivileged kids don’t need financial help.

**** ’em.

They do but should be provided by the state but that’s another rabbit hole altogether………

For the love of God. If you are in a hole stop digging, FFS.

What hole?

The fact that we rely on food banks and charity to support frontline services is disgusting.

It will indeed be a challenge. It’s in November, probably lashing with rain, high winds and cold. The latter part of the route seems a tad hilly.

Like him or not this is going to be entertaining and raises lots of money.

If the route passes near by, I shall wheel out the tandem with NBT (pilot) and support Paddy by riding alongside (or at the front or at the back).

The fact that we rely on food banks and charity to support frontline services is disgusting.

True, but that’s not what this thread is about.  It’s about someone doing something practical here and now to help kids, and getting slagged off for it. Because he’s not doing it on a unicycle or in a diver’s suit or something.  It comes across as petty and mean spirited.

Molly what’s er name did something similar for Comic Relief. Roughly the same distance on a proper bike.

I reckon (see, I’m scientific me) it’s an equivalent challenge for the 1 joke wonder and their fitness starting points.

It’s about someone doing something practical here and now to help kids, and getting slagged off for it. Because he’s not doing it on a unicycle or in a diver’s suit or something.

He’s doing the cycling equivalent of that, but some people seem to be ignoring that bit of information.

I just wish McGuinness wasn’t the protagonist;

The reason Paddy is the ‘chosen one’ is because he’s a newbe at radio 2. Every year the ‘newbe’ is put forward to do some charitable event for BBC ‘Children in Need’. For example Sara Cox dancing for 24 hours, Owain Wynn Evans playing the drums for 24 hours, Vernon Kaye running 115 miles etc.

It’s hardly begging, it’s raising money for charity

How is that not one and the same?

He’s doing the cycling equivalent of that, but plenty of people seem to be ignoring that bit of information.

Because they could do it between an Iron man and an ultra marathon on a Barbie balance bike.

This place truly brings out the best and the worst in people.

Mods, can you please remove all the miserable curmudgeon posts in this thread. Some people are just so miserable they can’t help but try and bring everyone down to their level.

Good on him for raising many thousands for kids. Any of you miserable bastards raising thousands for kids? No, I didn”t think so.

Christ, this place.