Join in this massive campaign of Help for Heroes to help raise £1 million for the wounded men and women of the British Armed Forces. This will be held on the 13th to 19th of September 2010 and 200 bike riders are expected on join in this ride... "The ride is planned to start in Brussels after a Eurostar trip, go via the battle of Waterloo and then to Antwerp before joining the route taken from Eindhoven to our finish at Arnhem. Along the route we will visit battlefield sites and learn about their history as well as pay our respects. As you would expect from H4H, we have some other goodies planned to educate and amuse as well! We will be joined by a group of wounded servicemen and women from both the UK and US; we fought alongside our Allies in 1944 and we are alongside them again now.

On 17 September 1944 thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky behind enemy lines. Their goal was to secure the bridges over 5 rivers in Holland to enable the advance of the Allied Army, avoiding the German defence line. If carried out as planned it should have ended the war by Christmas 1944. Unfortunately, this daring plan did not succeed as planned - the bridge at Arnhem proved to be ‘a bridge too far’.

We shall follow the story of this daring operation on this challenging cycle and will have the chance to join in the annual commemoration of those who fought here 66 years ago. To start our ride however, we will also be visiting other infamous battle field sites of the Low Countries, including the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s last battle at Waterloo which took place in 1815. This will be an amazing physical challenge but also an incredible journey remembering those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom and for their country, as our Forces are still doing today."

Learn more about this charity event by clicking on this link.