This Friday – starting at 19:30 – Hasan and I will attempt to ride our bikes for 24 hours, riding through the night, stopping only for food, drink and mother nature breaks. Actually, there’s no attempt, we WILL ride our bikes for 24 hours.
Whilst we’re both pretty adventurous when it comes to this sort of gig, this goes far beyond anything we could describe as ‘’enjoyable’’, especially through the long cold March nights so it really should be pretty brutal. Rest assured we’ll be taking the 24 hours very seriously and racking up as many kilometres as possible. Why are we doing it? In a hopeful attempt to try and raise some money to support the tragic humanitarian crisis currently happening in Ukraine.
We’ve chosen to support DEC. They provide exclusively humanitarian support, and we’re confident any money raised will be used in the best way possible – helping innocent Ukrainian civilians. It’s completely unimaginable what they’re going through and as privileged western Europeans we can’t relate in the slightest, but maybe this small effort will help to raise enough money to help one or two people in need out there.

Our plan:
19:30 – Leave Clapham on a 200km loop to Oxford
Very early Saturday morning – Refuel and reload on food, water, clothes and generic warm things
Very early Saturday morning – Leave Clapham on a 200km loop to Cambridge
Saturday afternoon – Second reload at Clapham
Saturday afternoon – Leave Clapham on a London landmarks tour lapping Richmond, Battersea, Regents Parks and whatever else we can squeeze in before 19:30
**we’ll share live tracking on our socials throughout so come and meet us, or just see how slow we are after 12, 16, 20 hours on the bikes...

Please please come and join in for as much or as little as you like. Especially the final laps back in London. We’ll be wearing Anti War t-shirts throughout and have flags to fly on the back of the bikes for the time in the cities (with hand written messages to Mr Putin himself), so if you can get hold of one or both, bring it along!
Lastly – thank you very very much in advance to anyone who donates through this link. Below is a brief description from DEC about where your money will go and what it can buy.
Lots of love,
Finn and Hasan xoxo

Intense conflict in Ukraine is threatening the lives and livelihoods of civilians across the country, causing hundreds of thousands to flee. Homes have been destroyed or are unsafe to live in. Essential services have been hit. Families have been separated. People have been injured. Lives have been lost.DEC charities and their local partners are in Ukraine and across the border in the neighbouring countries. They are working to meet the immediate needs of all people fleeing with food, water, medical assistance, protection and trauma care.£30 could provide essential hygiene supplies for three people for one month£50 could provide blankets for 4 families to keep them warm£100 could provide emergency food for two families for one month