Isle of Man Bike and Unicycle Ride November 2010

TOTAL RAISED - A FANTASTIC £1438.94!!!

 
 

 

 

Dan, Andy, Carl and Jim have been fundraising for our charity in November 2010. They have cycled around the Isle of Man from the 6th November, so please support them in their endeavour.

Whilst Dan and Andy used conventional bikes, Carl and Jim did the 120 miles on UNICYCLES!!!!!

Daniel Cumisky



Daniel Cumisky has recently finished his degree at Chester University aged twenty three, where he studied Photography and Graphic Design. Since leaving Chester to move back to his home town of Prestatyn, he has taken up cycling and as such decided he wanted a bit of a challenge. He asked Carl and Andy, two of his old college friends if they would like to join him cycling around the coast of the Isle of Man to raise money for charity. The husband of a colleague of Daniel’s has leukaemia and so this was the charity he decided he wanted to raise money for. He hopes to take part in similar events in the future via unicycle after improving his fitness levels to be able to ride one for further periods.

 Carl Richardson

Carl Richardson lives in Conwy, North Wales and taught himself to unicycle back in 2000 while attending a circus skills workshop in college. After mastering the basics of unicycling Carl decided he would explore the sport further, and a chance discovery online led him to uncover the world of extreme and mountain unicycling. Watching the various films and seeing other unicyclists do impossible tricks, stunts and rides left a mark on Carl and he set out to do the same and more.

After losing a close relative to cancer, Carl decided to raise money for charity, so he set himself the challenge of riding his unicycle down Snowdon. The event was a success and raised a massive total of £1000 for charity. This left Carl eager to raise even more money for good causes in the future and is now planning to ride around the coast of the Isle of Man with his friends Andy Noon, Dan Cumisky and Jim Williams for the Leukaemia Research Denbighshire, with the kind support of ‘1868 Racing’ in Llanrwst. With the Snowdonia national park on his doorstep, Carl had the perfect practise ground and he began to push himself to do bigger and better things.

Andrew Noon

 

 
Andrew Noon is 23 years old and currently living in Rhyl. Earlier this year he became very enthusiastic about mountain biking and is constantly on the look out for new challenges. He has also started to learn how to unicycle with the help of his friend Carl who first got him interested when they did a course together at Coleg Llandrillo.
Over the past two years Andrew has lost two close relatives to cancer so when his friend Dan suggested a fundraising trip to the Isle of Man he jumped at the chance. Andy is pleased to have the opportunity to use his passion for riding to raise money for leukaemia research. On this trip he will not only be riding with the team but is also tasked with providing support to the two unicyclists. Andy plans to do further fundraising with his friends in the future, and would eventually like to join them on a unicycle of his own.

 

 James Williams

 

 

James ‘captain Jim’ Williams lives in Llandudno Junction, north Wales and learned to ride a unicycle at a weekly class in a school sports hall, when he was only 10. After the course ended Jim didn’t unicycle for around 15 years until a chance meeting with Carl Richardson and his 36 inch wheel led him to rediscover the sport, and 2 days later buy his own unicycle.
Jim now has a nimbus nightrider pro 36 inch wheel unicycle for distance riding, a 19 inch wheeled nimbus custom for trials and a 24 inch wheeled nimbus muni for mountain and down hill riding which he recently rode down Snowdon as part of his training regime.

After only having rediscovered unicycling for a few months Jim was approached by Carl to join him, Dan Cumisky and Andy Noon to ride around the coast of the Isle of Man for Leukaemia Research Denbighshire, planned for November 2010. Jim is planning to make the charity event an annual thing and hopes to progress to bigger, better and more awesome routes in the future.

 News report in the Isle of Man Today www.iomtoday.co.im/news/pals_plan_to_unicycle_around_island_s_coast_1_2227164

Trip Supporters

The boys have asked us to publish the following message:

"A big thank you to your awesome sponsor Martin Burton, who helped us out with all our equipment and maintenance.
 
Richard Hoare, who help us by getting us the contacts for the Steam Packet Company (Without his help we would never of got the ferry tickets). He also got us a free meal in Castle town and was a great help with organizing our trip.
 
Our support girls, Ceris, Katrina and Catherine. They Cooked, cleaned and drove the support car around the Isle of Man for us.

        

 
Helen our seamstress, who fixed our 1868 racing patches with little notice.
 
Prokit in London, who got us our Gopro camcorders for filming.
 
David Findley from the steam Packet Company. He got our ferry tickets for free.
 
Claire and Juan Gordan from Wasthaven Holiday Cottages, for letting us stay at their amazing cottage and letting us stay another night when our ferry got cancelled.
 
John Tudor from the Isle of Man papers, who did a great article about us and also let us leave our bikes at his flat.
 
Mike Ward who took some amazing pictures for us on the Isle of Man.
 
Thank you to all at the Viking Inn at Castletown for letting us leave our bikes and unicycles over night and for the great food and hospitality.
 
To all the friendly people on the Isle of Man who stopped to asked about the cause, who took interest and were considerate drivers.
 
To all our family and friends who didnt judge us because we were on unicycles and for supporting us along the way.
 
And to Debbie and Terry for all the help with the charity and getting us clothes.
 
And to anyone else that we have forgot, your support and help had been amazing.

We would like to thank the following companies for supporting Dan, Andy, Carl and Jim on the trip.
 

1868racing.co.uk/
 

Itineary

• Day 1: We arrive at Douglas around 5.30am on the steam packet. We plan to set off around the time of our arrival and head along the A11 then joining the A2 to Laxey. Stopping in Laxey for breakfast and heading up the hill to visit the Great Laxey Wheel. From Laxey we set of to Ramsey along the A2. This is where we plan to stay for the night.

• Day 2: We leave Ramsey in the morning and head north along the A10. We have planned to ride all the way to the Point of Ayre. After heading back on our self’s we rejoin the A10 and ride all the way to Ballaugh. This is where we plan to stop on the 2^nd day. Although we have not made any plans on this day to stop anywhere of interest, we do plan on stopping for lunch and stop to see anything of interest that we see on the way.

• Day 3: We leave Ballaugh along the A3 heading south. We pass though Kirk Michael and join the A4 all the way to Peel. This is our last stop for day 3.

• Day 4: We leave Peel and head south along the A27 road. We join the A36 and turn off to head onto Port Erin. As we don’t know where we are staying on this day we plan to ride down to the Sound for some site seeing before heading back to ever Port Erin or Port St Mary.

• Day 5: We set off from either Port Erin or St Mary, heading along the A5 to Castletown. Here we stop for food before heading out along the A5 joining the A25 back to Douglas. As of yet we have not decided if we will join the Marine Drive in Douglas. We spend our last night here in Douglas before heading home on day 6.

• Day 6 is our rest day before heading home. We return on the ferry around 4pm.