McGuinness plans to participate in the Ultra Endurance bike Challenge in November, which will require him to bike through eight counties and three different countries.
Beginning in Wrexham on Monday, November 11th, he will ride through the following counties: Flintshire, Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Dumfriesshire, and Lanarkshire.
He wants to finish the challenge on the morning of Friday 15 November in Glasgow.
The DJ, who presides over Radio 2’s Sunday lunchtime show, will finish the course on a Raleigh Chopper, a bicycle that was a favorite among kids in the 1970s and customized and adapted by Children in Need.
“As a kid, I didn’t have much and used to be really jealous of my mates riding around on those bikes, so I’m really honored to support Children in Need by getting pedaling to raise as much money as possible for the charity,” the 51-year-old presenter said, summarizing the task.
Reinterpreting his well-known Take Me Out slogan, he remarked, “‘No likey, no bikey’ just isn’t an option.”
Since April 2024, McGuinness has hosted programming on Radio 2, the most well-known of which are Take Me Out, Top Gear, and Question of Sport.
Vernon Kay, a fellow Radio 2 host, ran an ultra-marathon last year and raised over £6 million for the charity.
