18/05/2026
An article on inspirational Tim who has been a customer ever since he enquired as to whether we could do a bike fit for him….on a Raleigh Chopper! Find Tim’s socials and give him a follow and support.
Tim Bright lives up to his name. When I first make contact with him, he is 667 miles deep into an attempt to c*cle around the nearly 5,000-mile long coastline of mainland Britain on a classic Raleigh Chopper - he has been beasted by the hills of Devon and Cornwall, and the frame on his bike has just snapped.
It looks like it could be the end of the road to me, but Bright radiates optimism. To be fair, he has faced much bigger obstacles than this in the past. And he’s still going strong.
In 2016, Bright was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia. The condition is incurable, but these days it can be managed with medication, and once Bright had things under control, he started thinking of ways he could both raise money for cancer charities, and show that he wasn’t about to be beaten by the disease.
Two years after his initial diagnosis, Bright’s father found his brother’s old Mark I Raleigh Chopper, which he had restored, and the seed for what became the ‘Giving Cancer the Chop’ challenge was planted.
Read the story on the Cycling Weekly website, via the link in the comments.
📷 Courtesy of Tim Bright
