Riders aim to 'cycle the world' in Beaumont charity challenge.

Not many people can say that they have cycled around the world let alone hold the record for doing so.
This is an accolade that belongs Scottish cyclist Mark Beaumont.
He completed his 18,296-mile route on February 15, 2008 and took 194 days and 17 hours to do so.
But now a group of Glasgow cyclists are aiming to get a slice of the action by "cycling the world" for Enable Scotland.
The event has been organised by the charity in conjunction with the record-breaking cyclist and will take place at Knockhill Racing Circuit on Friday.
Riders will race day and night around the 1.3 mile circuit in a bid to cycle the 18,296 miles covered by Mark on his world venture.
The race is Scotland’s first ever 24-hour track endurance event and a group of four men from Glasgow Green Cycle Club think that they are up for the challenge.
Cycle the World
Andy Dobinson, 38, Ross Miller, 27, Jim Murray, 40, and Robert Young, 24, will be pulling on their helmets in a bid to clock as many miles as they can.
Andy, co-founder of the Glasgow Green Cycle Club, said: "We’ve been racing throughout the year and when we saw this we thought it was a fantastic challenge to get involved in and because we’ve got such an active membership we thought it would be a really good chance to raise some money for charity.
"We try to do something every single year that raises money for charity. It was actually the event which attracted us first and it happened to be attached to Enable Scotland so we are going all out to raise as much money as we possibly can for it.
"Last year we did a 300-mile bike ride in aid of CHAS, I’ve done quite a number of events for Macmillan Cancer because that is quite close to my heart because I’ve got a family member with cancer. Enable Scotland is a new one for us but we thought it was a really good cause."
The challenge will kick off at noon on Friday and cyclists have either entered in teams of one, two or four.
Andy and the team plan to race one hour each before handing over to the next person and having a three hour rest.
"Over the 24 hours between the four of us we need to cycle constantly so we will probably cover say around 500 miles in the 24 hours," he said.
"We will just have to grab some sleep when we can but it is all about keeping the bike on the track for the 24 hours and doing as many laps as we possibly can.
"All four of us are very active cyclists because we are part of the Glasgow Green Cycle Club. We ride on a Wednesday night and we ride on a Sunday morning.
"But cycling through the night in October is going to be hard. I’ve done it a few times up at Fort William but it adds a different dimension when you are cycling non-stop for 24 hours."
Top cyclists and fundraisers will secure an invitation to cycle the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome when it opens.
This coveted prize is giving the fearsome four an extra incentive to succeed and they are all hard in training for the big event.
“I think there are around 15 team and we’re going for the win. We are going to do all we can to win our team event,” said Andy.
"We’ve done the sums of how many laps we think we can do per hour and we think we can do anything between 480 and 500 miles but that’s maintaining an average of 20-mile an hour and doing about 16 or 17 laps per hour and not stopping for any rests whatsoever so we are definitely going for the win."
He added: "We are going to take a van up there and we are going to set up a gazebo so we can sleep in the back of the van. We are going to take a big barbeque and light that to keep us warm. I think there are cafeteria supplies but we will be self-sufficient."
Andy co-founded the Glasgow Green Cycle Club last year and since then it has become one of the biggest clubs in Scotland.
He said: "My and a friend have been cycling since we were very young. I used to be a sponsored mountain bike racer and we were looking at a number of different clubs throughout the region and none of them were giving us what we were after.
"A lot of the clubs can potentially be quite elitist so what we did is started a club labelled the friendliest cycle club in Glasgow and it’s open to everybody, whether you’re a beginner, a racer, you’re a mountain biker, you’re a time trialist, it’s open to everybody and the whole ethos of our club is that nobody gets left behind.
"If you come on a run we go at the pace of the slowest rider so everybody gets exactly what they want from a club run. I think we are about the second biggest club in the west of Scotland. We started it because we thought we could do it better ourselves and it’s just gone from strength to strength."
So far Andy and the team have raised £800 from sponsors and are hoping to go out and do them proud.
He said: "I am quite looking forward to the race. It’s going to be something different and I’m just hoping the weather stays okay, it’s not too cold and not too wet. It’s going to be one hell of a challenge but all four of us are really looking forward to it."
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