Graham and The Big Bad Bike Ride in the York Press

How Graham was given his mission. A York businessman who was inspired by his children to embark on two decades of charity fundraising tells his story to Stephen Lewis.

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Graham Kennedy's MBE

This year, Big Bad Bike Ride organiser Graham Kennedy received an MBE in the New Year's Honours. After putting the letter from Her Majesty's Service to one side for nearly a week, suspecting it to be a large tax bill, Graham eventually opened it to discover that he was receiving the award in recognition of his charity fund-raising work.

Graham says the award is “a tribute to all the people who have helped me. Over the years, a lot of people, mainly from the York area, have been involved in the bike rides.”

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Newsflash

This is it. This is the exciting news you have been waiting for. The reason God has let you live in 2010.

This is the GOOD NEWS! Yes, it’s time to get on your bike and reincarnate yourself into that gorgeous specimen of a human being who has been hiding in the shadows in the last few months.

It’s time to meet new, interesting people.

It’s time to get on that tight Lycra gear and feel the sensual touch of Nylon against your skin.

It’s time to start telling people what a wonderful person you are, and why they are either going to do the bike ride with you or give you lots of money in sponsorship for a fantastic cause.

It’s time to get your trusty warrior bike out of the shed and tell it that it’s going on holiday with you to Bonnie Scotland!

It’s time to look in the mirror and ask yourself why such a beautiful specimen of humanity is so lucky to be part of the Big Bad Bike Ride team?

The answer lies in your reflection. This is the the type of person that says...

YES

YES, you will do this ride.

YES, you will get at least one more friend - for whom this will be a real achievement and test of willpower – to do the ride with you.

YES, you will be guaranteed to be chosen for the next front cover of Vogue magazine and will lose any spots of visual deformities that have been annoying you, (even if it does involve some tedious touch-up photography and lots of bribery.)

YES, you will enjoy some of the most spectacular scenery that Scotland has to offer, and you will thank Graham for enhancing your life (again) and not complain about anything (including any of the hills I have lied about).

YES, you will be staying at luxury accommodation where there is a jacuzzi and personal masseur in every room.

YES, you will be capable of getting to Scotland in time for the ride and not ringing me up the week before to ask me about your bike and how to get it there.

YES, you will be checked in by Lovely Lorraine and Kommander K. and be given your ‘I look like a plonker’ pass to wear around your neck until people are sure you are a plonker.

YES, you may well be distracted again by Lorraine’s cleavage when you are meant to be listening to my interesting description of the route.

YES, You will have one of the best weekends of your life.

YES, you can wear a kilt.