\n Greg James will start ‘Radio 1\u2019s Longest Ride’ from Weymouth before spending eight days on the saddle cycling all the way to Edinburgh for Red Nose Day.\n<\/p>\n
\n A huge Radio 1 van has already arrived at Weymouth Pavilion ahead of the big day.\n<\/p>\n
\n He is cycling on a tandem bike aptly named ‘Tando Norris’ after Formula 1 champion Lando Norris – who has his own Dorset links having discovered his talent for driving at Clay Pigeon Raceway at Wardon Hill near Dorchester.\n<\/p>\n
\n He is aiming to ride around 1,000km, spending roughly eight hours a day on the bike, joined at points by fellow Radio 1 presenters, guests and listeners.\n<\/p>\n
\n Greg is due to set off from Weymouth Pavilion tomorrow (Friday, March 13) between 8.30am and 8.40am with the on-air launch of the challenge taking place during his breakfast show that morning.\n<\/p>\n
\n People are encouraged to head down early to line the route and wave him off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg James will start ‘Radio 1\u2019s Longest Ride’ from Weymouth before spending eight days on the saddle cycling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471877","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=471877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}