Brett rides in memory of Chris
He aims to ride at least 500 kilometres during the month to raise money for children’s cancer research.
Already he’s picked up $2000 in sponsorships and is hoping that amount will swell considerably, at least to the $5000 he raised when he took part in the Great Bike Challenge for the first time last year.
Brett said he is riding in memory of a friend Chris Wiseman who died of cancer aged 42 and for the children that get cancer.
“I want to help out those little buggers because I can’t imagine what kids that have cancer go through”.
Brett said that although he’s 47 years old he had not known anyone with cancer until his friend Chris took ill.
It was enough to make him give up smoking and take up cycling. “It affected me pretty badly,” Brett admits. “The funny thing is that Chris was very much a man’s man”.
He always said real men don’t wear lycra so I don’t know what he’d think about me wearing it on my rides, Brett said.
The Great Bike Challenge runs throughout October and aims to raise $3 million for the Children’s Medical Research Institute and help the 600 Australian children diagnosed with cancer each year.
The distance cyclists nominate they will ride does not have to be covered in one go.
It could be from riding to work each day or going on a couple of rides at weekends.