<div>In 1981 my elder brother, Mark, was knocked from his motorcycle by a drunk driver and paralysed from the chest down, he was eighteen. He spent six months in rehabilitation at Lodge Moor Hospital in Sheffield and during his time there had fantastic support from the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) giving him the practical and emotional support he needed to recover from the trauma of his accident.</div> <div>Many years later at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics he won a silver medal playing Wheelchair Basketball for Team GB and in the same year was named as one of the World's leading players, his and my proudest moment. He is now married to Carol and a father to William aged fourteen.</div> <div>In 1982, as a seventeen year old, I walked the Coast to Coast (Whitehaven in The West to Robin Hood's Bay in The East) 160 miles, through the Lake District, across The Pennines and through the West Ridings of Yorkshire, in eleven days.</div> <div>Now as a forty six year old, I am going to cycle that same route, in three days, with my best man Nic Hanlon, in memory of his father, the late Peter Hanlon, one of the original founders of the SIA and without whom my brother would not have had the tools with which to aid his recovery.</div> <div>I hope my challenge and the work of the SIA, inspires you to support me in my cycling challenge.</div> <div>Steve</div>