Beyond the Bike's warm up ride is cycling more than 500km from London to Amsterdam.

Stuart and Claire will be cycling more than 10,000km through Southern Africa and Asia raising money for Beyond Ourselves in Zambia and United World Schools in Asia. (Visit www.beyondthebike.org for more details about Stuart, Claire and their challenge).

Beyond the Bike is also an exciting educational project; following the route of natural resources from African mine to Asian factory, connecting classrooms and sharing resources worldwide. Using smartphones to record the journey they will be partnered with Fairphone, a mobile phone company that puts social values first,  based in Amsterdam. From here they will fly to Uganda to start their big adventure.