{"id":435803,"date":"2026-02-20T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435803\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:50:07","slug":"two-derby-firms-gear-up-greg-james-for-comic-relief-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435803\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Derby firms gear up Greg James for Comic Relief challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Comic Relief said James&#8217;s challenge would help support vital projects providing food, shelter, and safety, with &#8220;every mile pedalled helping to put food on tables, secure safe places to sleep, and protect those at risk of harm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eight-day journey will see him joined on the tandem by a series of surprise guests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">HUUB has supplied James with kit to withstand the physical demands of the challenge, including special cycling shorts and waterproof outerwear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mercian Cycles, which has been making bikes since 1946 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cze63n0zynjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and was rescued from liquidation in 2024<\/a>, has built a lightweight steel-framed, hand-painted red tandem to James&#8217;s exact dimensions, along with a blue back-up bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company has also provided four standard bikes of &#8220;various sizes&#8221; to be used by those joining James on the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comic Relief said James&#8217;s challenge would help support vital projects providing food, shelter, and safety, with &#8220;every mile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-435803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}