**Update 24th October 2025. The response to this has been absolutely amazing and I‘d like to say a massive thank you to all who have contributed so far. I’ve raised the target as I think we can go further and provide more help for Jono and Aoife.**

Attention all bikers - your help is needed!

Please donate to support Jono Doyle

Jonathan Doyle or Jono is not your typical dry weekend out for a mad blast biker. He moved over from Ireland to London, and rode every day in the capital. Met his lovely lady Aoife, also from Ireland and started to build a life with his life-partner and love.

Jono completed his advanced rider training with Middlesex Advanced Motorcyclists and later joined Sheffield Advanced Motorists after a move to Chesterfield. A very experienced rider, Jono met up for regular rides with mates in Sheffield, who share his love of two-wheeled freedom, and the clarity it brings. Wearing his airbag safety vest was a given.

The 12th of July 2025 saw a massive change in that life. He was out riding in the sunshine with a couple of friends and fellow bikers. After a solid, considerate ride they stopped off for the last ice-cream in Monyash. Jono headed back home to Chesterfield on his own. He was in a collision with a Range Rover. Both the bike and car went up in flames. Jono was airlifted to Sheffield Northern General Hospital Critical Care Unit, where he remained for two months. Massive injury has left him immobile from the neck down, needing a tracheostomy to breathe. Initially he communicated by blinking his left eye, one for yes two for no. He has just started using a device that allows him to spell out words using eye tracking.

Using this technology he has written a message to all at the club:

‘Hello fellow SAM members. You may have heard of my tumble. A nasty one but hope to see you all soon.’

He is currently in the spinal unit at Northern General Hospital to start his rehabilitation journey, and to prepare for the future.

Throughout this, Aoife has been his rock, his voice and his advocate, travelling from Chesterfield every day since the accident. We are asking for help and support for Jono and Aoife in this unexpected situation. We are trying to raise £3,000, to make immediate short-term and medium-term life for Jono and Aoife more tolerable. Train and bus tickets, taxi rides when it’s throwing it down with rain, drinks, food, an audio book for Jono to listen to, incidentals that mount up when you are living a transient two city life caring for a partner who is very proud, and currently not able to provide.

To every biker who sees this, look at your two wheels, your kit, helmet and boots. Then look at your family, loved ones, job, lifestyle and think how your nearest and dearest would cope if this happened to you.

We ask all bikers, this great family of riders, friends from the same love of two-wheels, to just give a bit to help Jono and Aoife to cope with their current life and any unknown future costs for expensive specialist equipment. Jono went out on that day, as we all do, to enjoy a ride with his friends, expecting to return to the safety and love of his home and continue with his life as normal, all that we take for granted and that these two amazing, strong, good people can now only dream of. Donate using the ‘Give Now‘ button, because it's the right thing to do to help a fellow Biker.