Manchester 100 – Supporting the Bury Tandem Club

The Manchester 100 – a 100KM cycling challenge through the scenic Cheshire countryside – filmed while supporting the incredible Bury Tandem Club.

The Bury Tandem Club empowers visually impaired riders by pairing them with sighted pilots on tandem bikes, creating unforgettable experiences and building community through cycling. For this event, I joined the club on my solo bike to raise awareness and capture the spirit of the ride.

The Manchester 100 is a well-loved annual event that offers both 100KM and 100-mile routes, attracting cyclists from across the UK to ride in support of local charities. I chose the 100KM route, riding alongside the BTC team and documenting the journey from start to finish – medal in hand and smiles all around.

If you’d like to support the Bury Tandem Club and help them continue their amazing work, you can sponsor them here: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/btc2025 (link also pinned in the comments)

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And we’re off. This is the Manchester 100 ride doing 100 km. I’m riding today with the Berry Tandem Club. So, we just left the start line here at Wenshaw Park in Manchester. So, riding today on my own bike. So, with six tandemss on this ride. I got myself dotting about filming, supporting. Dave’s also on the support crew, flicking around, making sure everybody’s okay. Cheers. All right. Yeah. All good. Thank you. When we ride as a club, always try to regroup at regular intervals. Uh keep everybody together. Keep everybody safe. Everybody’s here. Over the uh railway line. to Ashley in the county of Cheshire. Funny, it’s the Manchester 100 when most of the riding’s in Cheshire lanes. Good job. Could you do that? Good morning, guys. A good day. Lovely, isn’t it? Brilliant. Brilliant. Sunshine. I know. We still got about five layers on sweating. Amazing. Definitely didn’t pred predict this weather anyway, did we? No. Brilliant. Hi Rob. Gemma, you okay? What a lovely day to cycle. It’s lovely, isn’t it? So, if you didn’t know, I do occasionally pilot for the Berry Tandem Club. Uh, so we ride every Sunday. Like I say, not piloting today. I’m on the filming duties. I have done some other videos of the club. So, if you’d like to see those, click somewhere on the screen. end of the playlist, I think. Yeah. Yeah. You all right, Nazia? Yeah. Oh, great. Yeah. Just getting this oneanded skill on the camera there. Hi, Alex. How you Just stopped for a uh regroup there. Little snack. Just took my jacket off. So, we’re about 15 miles in now of this 62 mile ride. And looks like we’re currently going across the motorway. The Berry Tandem Club is a registered charity. Uh we rely on volunteers like myself to pilot the bikes and donations to keep them running. Uh so this is one of our sponsored rides this year raising a lot of awareness for the club and also some cash. So, uh, if you would like to donate, I’ll leave a link in the comment section. [Music] [Music] Christmas apart from the smell. M in the country now. In the countryside now. Little bit of a headwind. The good thing about riding with a group of tandemss is you can very easily tuck in behind them. You okay? We’re just stopping at the first rest stop here. It’s about 20 miles in the Stanley Arms Pub. All right. See you. Is that it? One, two, three, four, five, six. Yeah. Just at the first feed stop. Stop for a coffee. Okay. Alan, you all right? Yeah. Get in there. Yeah. Nice, isn’t it? On the flats. Say it’s cruising along. Well, I’m I’ve just looked at the average. Oh, yeah. 13.3. It’s faster than usual. Yeah. And we haven’t been doing anything, have we? No. No. No. Nice route. Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. Wagons roll. Guys, it’s quite And we’re back off again after the refreshments. Up to 24 miles in now. Got one, two, three tandemss in front. All here. Yeah, everybody’s counting them. Hartford. Nice bit of uh thatch roof in there. Lovely. If you are watching this video and you have been riding the Manchester 100 and you saw the club, let me know. Put a comment below. Say hi to us. Showering a little bit now. Not too bad. Just uh ready for a little downpours back out of them again. Here are where are we? 38 miles. We just stopped to regroup and have some snacks. Some next level snacks going on. It’s going to be had a sausage and chicken leg. Uh looking forward to the next stop now. If you haven’t run out of water, um yeah, shouldn’t be far. We’re about 40 miles in. Yeah. Well, we’re not out in that bouncing down now, is it? Yeah. Yeah. not spam an egg. Managed to dodge most of the big rain showers at the uh stop over there. We had a cup of tea, bacon, but I went for a spam and egg. probably regret that later. 50 mile in Alan and Matt up in front. We got David on the solo. Feeling good. Sun’s back out. Oh, on the tandem. You always want to try and keep rolling. It’s fine, you know, stopping and starting, but it gets a bit of a pain after a while. sort the lights. I think it’s a game of how slow can you roll before the lights change. All right, it’s Cheshure. I’m back on the uh dual carriageway that we started on. So, I think the end is in sight. So, what I think of the Manchester 100. Brilliant route. Some amazing riding down in South Manchester. A lot flatter than North Manchester. So, I would recommend the route. Nice one. Here we are back in within shore hauling gardens. I can find the finish. Well done. Thank you. There we go. I get that. There’s the medal. Excellent. Well done. Thank you very much. Condom [Applause] guy. [Applause] Don’t forget riders on these bike. Terrific. Well done, guys. Okay. You’ve all done very well. [Music] [Music] Have you all enjoyed it? Have you? Brilliant riders enjoyed it today. Very tant. They’re looking for volunteers all the time. If you want more information, go to the site in the website. Very tandem club. You’ll find it very easily. And if you wish to volunteer, if you live in the area, volunteer. It’s a great great club. It does wonderful work. You ask any of them riders who sat on the back of the tandem and they’ll tell you. Couldn’t believe how flat I forgot now. Flat chess. I know. Well, there you go. Hope you enjoyed the video. You did see the club out or you did the Manchester 100. Put comment on the video. If you’d like to donate to the Berry Tandem Club and support what we do with the visually impaired Riders, I’ll put a link in the comments below.