Bury Tandem Club for the Visually Impaired

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 Latest news: Congratulations to everyone who did the Drome to Drome ride!!  A great success and fund raiser for the club.  Photo`s and videos can be found on our gallery page.  

Welcome to the home page of Bury Tandem Club for the Visually Impaired. We are a small group of tandeming enthusiasts who all live in or near Bury which is a few miles from Manchester in north west England. The club comprises both sighted front tandem riders and visually impaired rear riders and consists in all of some thirty regular cyclists.

 

Latest news. Drome to drome.

We need your help! At Midnight on August 18th 2012, 24 members of the Bury Tandem Club for the Blind and Visually Impaired are cycling 190 miles, through the night. This sponsored challenge will raise much needed funds for their charity, which enables blind or visually impaired members to get out and enjoy weekly rides of 40 - 60 miles.

 

 

They have been training hard all year and have increased the length of their weekly rides to enable them to complete the challenge. They will Cycle in relay across 6 stages from Manchester Velodrome to the new Velodrome at the Olympic village, London. 9 of these riders are blind or visually impaired and will cycle on the rear of the tandem, supported by our sighted front riders who make this possible.

Everything we need is in place. We have the tandems, the riders, the support vehicles, the food and the enthusiasm. All we need now is sponsorship to make the event worth while by helping us raise the £7,000 it costs to run the Club each year. The annual costs go towards the maintenance of the tandems to ensure our riders are safe on the roads.

Anything you can give will be gratefully received! To donate, you can go to:-

Justgiving.com/burytandem

or text BURY20 (and then the amount, for example) £10 to 70070

 

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How you can help us - Become a Front Rider

Bury Tandem Club is continually on the look-out for new front riders. This will help ensure that our blind and visually impaired rear riders have a chance to participate in their favourite sport every week. Maybe you are an experienced solo cyclist and can help us by becoming a front rider, or maybe you are a blind or visually impaired person who would like to join us as a rear rider.