Here is Nicole out and about on her trike. Nicole was diagnosed with an ependymoma which has left her with a weakness on her right side so is unable to balance properly on a bike. CFC arranged for her to get a Tracker trike and managed to do 4 miles on her first trip out and can’t wait for her next outing! Thank you so much getting her this 
Tere Bowers
1st March 2013 – Today we are launching our March appeal for Millie’s Trike. Millie is a 4 year old from South Brent, Devon who loves the outdoors, an aggressive brain tumour has restricted this recently. This amazing piece of kit converts from an adapted trike to a two wheeled trailer which is perfect for her right now to get out and about with Mum and Dad. Our target to purchase this highly adapted trike is £2333.00.
Millie’s Trike Update – 5th March 2013
Ace Devon based fundraiser Sarah Lakey has raised £430.97 this weekend towards the fund with a sponsored kids bike ride at Newton Abbot Racecourse and 5 Hours on Spinning Bike outside Tesco’s!!! – Fantastic work Sarah. Thank you.
Millie’s Trike Update – 14th March 2013
£758.00 of £2333.00 raised to date. We know it’s Comic Relief week and that’s great but we really do want to help Millie get active again asap. Please read her blog to find out about her journey so far. http://littlefeet-longwalk.blogspot.co.uk/
Hi Everyone at Cyclists Fighting Cancer,
How do I start………..
WOW, WOW, WOW……….. we thank you all so much.
Lewis’s BMX arrived today as you can probably guess.
Lewis has had a very rough time since being diagnosed with AML Leukaemia in November 2012.
After we were given one of your leaflets, he started to get excited about getting a new BMX, and I’m sure it has helped him get through his hard time whilst having Chemotherapy.
Today was the day it arrived and Lewis was very excited, then the Courier arrived, Lewis couldn’t move quick enough to the door.
Unpacked and assembled within the hour and Lewis was outside trying out his new BMX.
His reaction when he came back was “WOW its great, just what I wanted”.
Everything about the bike for Lewis has put a big smile on his face and has really cheered him up. He is over the moon.
He has spent most of the day today on his new BMX just riding around because Lewis is not up to doing everything he is capable of doing due to his treatment.
His BMX will definitely be getting him back to fitness as soon as his treatment has finished.
For this we thank you all at Cyclists Fighting Cancer.
The T-shirts, magazines, stickers and the new helmet were an extra surprise that he didn’t expect and is very grateful for as well as the BMX.
Please find attached a couple of pictures of Lewis and his new BMX.
We are not on Facebook but feel free to use the pictures to promote your charity and the great work you do helping other people get through their hard times.
Once again we the Campkin family thank you all so much.
Following on the back of the recent Lance Armstrong book amnesty we at CFC have decided to offer our own silicone wristband for disillusioned Livestrong band owners. Simply send us your unwanted Livestrong wristband and we’ll exchange it for a Cyclists Fighting Cancer wristband. The yellow wristbands will be returned to a factory in the USA for recycling.
It’s simple. If you have a Livestrong wristband that you no longer want to wear, just send it to us at the address below with a stamped, self-addressed, envelope (plus a donation if you want of course) and in return we’ll send you a Cyclists Fighting Cancer wristband that you can wear with pride!
1) Remove Livestrong wristband
2) Send it to us with a stamped, self-addressed, envelope
3) Add a small donation if you want
4) Recieve a Cyclists Fighting Cancer wristband in return
5) Wear your CFC wristband with pride!
ADDRESS
Cyclists Fighting Cancer
2nd Floor, Wood Street Chambers
8 Wood Street
Stratford upon Avon
CV37 6JE
Or alternatively you can simply purchase a CFC “Keep Pedalling” wristband from our ebay shop, click on the image below to be redirected.
Thanks to Matt Lamy at Cycling Active Magazine for this article.
“Daisy is totally blind, she lost both her eyes through cancer,” Daisy’s mum Marie says. “Six years ago Daisy was granted a wish by the Make A Wish Foundation, which was to have a track put in the garden where she could ride her trike. She loved this track and would hare round on it, but two years ago we moved to somewhere more suburban where it’s much harder for her to cycle.
“So she hasn’t been able to ride her bike at all, and she has outgrown her trike. But I was talking to somebody at the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust and they knew of Cyclists Fighting Cancer. They said: would Daisy like a bike? I said yes, the problem is she hasn’t got anywhere really to ride it safely.
“Mike at CFC really thought about what was the best option for her. He came up with the idea of a tandem trike and now Daisy can ride with her nine-year-old sister Rose, without relying on mum or dad running alongside her. They ride around the streets and to the park together. It’s amazing, I can’t get them off it. The first thing I had to buy were extra lights for the front because I couldn’t get them to come in at night.
“We’re just about the only family with children on our road, everybody else tends to be quite a lot older. The other day this old gentlemen came across and said: ‘That’s a wonderful bike, where did you get it?’ I explained and he said: ‘Oh, I really want one.’ I had visions of him riding it and having a heart attack but Poppy, Daisy’s six-year-old sister, turned round and said: ‘Its all right, it’s got a big basket on the back, he can sit in the basket’!
“It’s really hard for a totally blind child to go out and play; the world has to come to them. Daisy can’t take two steps on her own unless it’s a familiar environment, but this is something that she can just go out and do with her friends and her sister. It’s really made such a difference to her life, and to ours. Just watching her going up and down the road with such a huge smile on her face, it’s wonderful. So to CFC we say: thank you so much.”
