Success Stories
See how our funding helps
Welsh team at the European Youth MTB Champs
We all felt really proud to wear the Ride for Charlie kit and to be the first Welsh team at the European Youth MTB Champs for a long time. Thank you so much for supporting our Ride for Charlie Wales team. We really appreciate it.
Freya at the Youth European MTB Championships
A huge thanks to ride for Charlie for supporting my team on our trip to Sweden to race the youth European mountain bike championships. It was my first experience racing out side the uk and it was an amazing experience.
Daisy travels to Huskvarna in Sweden for the European Youth MTB XC Championships
A huge thank you to Ride For Charlie for supporting me to travel out to Huskvarna in Sweden for the European Youth MTB XC Championships. This was my last chance to race this event, so I went in feeling very excited.
Ollie travelled to Huskavana in Sweden
Thanks to the support from Ride For Charlie, I travelled to Huskavana in Sweden with my RFC team for the European Youth xc Championships. It was such a good week, and I learnt so much being there with over 800 other riders from over 28 different countries.
3 teams to race the Youth European championships
I am really grateful for the Ride for Charlie funding, which helped me race in Sweden at the Youth European Mountain Bike Championships. Over the week, i experienced three events with my team: a short time trial,
Luca takes a trip to Houffalize in Belgium
With the help from Rideforcharlie, I was able to expand my race experience with a trip to Houffalize in Belgium, to join others racing there with British Cycling at the last round of the 3 nations cup.
Barnaby at the Gravel 150 UCI world series
Great to have the opportunity to mix it up with the Europeans at the Gravel 150 UCI world series race in the Netherlands and gain some experience racing on the continent ahead of gravel worlds coming up in October.
Phoebe travels to Houffalize for the Three Nations Cup
A massive thank you to Ride For Charlie for supporting my trip to race at Houffalize for the Three Nations Cup. The course was just as technical as last year, with the rain this time making the track more slippy.
Daphne travels to Megéve
Massive Thankyou to ride for Charlie for helping support my recent trip Megéve in the French Alps for RD 2 of the XCM World Cup. Really happy to come away with 22nd on brutal course which included some mega climbs and descents.
Daphne at the XCM World Cup
Big thankyou to ride for Charlie helping support me at the first XCM World Cup of the season. It was a race of mixed emotions with two snapped chains, a bent mech and a 5 mile run to the finish line but I was super happy to have still been able to finish and the experience was incredible.
Beth Races the 3 Nations Cup
I am so grateful for the help from Ride For Charlie to allow me to get out to Europe for another round of the 3 Nations Cup this time in Genk .
Alex races the 3 Nations Cup in Oldenzaal
Big thanks to Ride for Charlie for supporting my trip to race the 3 Nations Cup in Oldenzaal. I was met with a perfectly running course after some rain the day before and a new rock garden only added to the testing course making for super fast, punchy racing.