The modified chopper bike Paddy McGuinness will be riding 300 miles in for Children in Need has been revealed. TV star Paddy admitted he’s got to “get on with it” after being surprised at how unsuitable for the journey the children’s two-wheeler is, despite it undergoing several upgrades. The Bolton lad will start his ultra-endurance cycle challenge during BBC Radio 2 ’s Breakfast Show on Monday, November 11 and will pedal almost 300 miles, starting in Wrexham.
Speaking to One Show presenters Alex Jones and Roman Kemp – alongside fellow guest James Blunt – Paddy said: “When we had the meeting about it, doing the challenge, which is a stretch anyhow, I kind of had the rose-tinted spectacles on and thought, ‘Eh, why don’t we do it on a Raleigh Chopper. The end product bike after the modifications (Image: BBC) "I used to love them when I were a kid’ – couldn’t afford one, so I thought let’s relive my childhood dreams, and then it became very apparent very quickly that I’ve got to do 300 miles on it. “And what they’ve done, they said, ‘We’re going to modify it for you’, and how they’ve modified it is they’ve made the seat more uncomfortable and moved the gears what were there [points low] to there [raises hand].
“That’s it, so I’ve got to kind of just now get on with it!” The route will take him through eight counties – Flintshire, Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Dumfriesshire and Lanarkshire, and he.