Team 00Heaven have engaged the target... this years Mission will be a challenging 500 mile ride from Caen to Beaune in just 3 days - AKA The Beaune Challenge.

We will leave from Portsmouth on the overnight ferry to Ouistreham, near Caen, on the evening of Wednesday 26 September. Starting near the ferry terminal in the early hours of Thursday 27 September, we will soon cross Pegasus Bridge, where airborne troops were the first to land at the start of the D-Day landings in June 1944. Then we ride through the undulating Normandy countryside before descending to the Loire valley and Orleans, where Joan of Arc famously liberated the city from the Plantagenets during the Hundred Years’ War. Our first night is on the edge of the Sologne, a vast area of forests, moors and lakes.

On Day 2, we will ride south, tracking the Loire into the Auvergne and our second night in Vichy, originally a Roman spa town and more recently the seat of the French State in 1940 under Marshal Petain.

Our final etape on Saturday 29 September takes us through the Beaujolais hills and into the vineyards of Burgundy to our destination of Beaune where we will celebrate our achievements under the coloured glazed roofs of the Hospices de Beaune.

Providing our own support vehicle and Gov. standard issue road racing bikes, Team 00Heaven will pay the entry fee (£1300) and all other costs ourselves making sure that every penny we raise goes 100% to our chosen charities...

Your kind donations will be presented to Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation and Derby Kids Camp!