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Here's a couple of links where you can find out a little more about Mark Cavendish and Columbia-HTC, their involvment with Right to Play and the 2010 Brussels to London Cycle Challenge.

http://www.markcavendish.com/righttoplay.html

http://www.highroadsports.com/partners/2-Right-to-Play

Pavé??!! They said nothing about cobbles!!

I've just spent a shedload of money on a fancy-Dan bike...   ...and now they tell me they've finalised the Brussels - London route to include some of the Tour of Flanders cobbles!

Don't these people realise I've got a bike full of carbon?

Oh, and if you haven't heard of Right To Play (I hadn't) they are a multi-national organization which evolved out of Olympic Aid to become "an athlete-based international humanitarian organization that uses sport and play to aid the development of children and youth in underprivileged areas of the world"

They aim to: To improve the lives of children in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world by using the power of sport and play for development, health and peace.

You don't have to ask why on earth I'm doing getting involved with "an athlete-based organization"


The only downside I can see is that their "exclusive charity partner" is Chelsea FC

I've done it now...

OK

Not only have I signed up to the Right to Play Brussels to London Challenge, but I've gone out and bought a bike on the strength of it! I've got to go now!!

Decathlon had a "Manager's Special" on a road bike - carbon forks and stays, aluminium frame, 3-ring Campag. It weighs less than the amount of weight I need to lose.