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The Nello 2025

Event Date: 
29/06/2025 - 8:00am
Venue: 
Topsham Rugby Club

A big hello from FORCE Cancer Charity in Exeter.

We wanted to take this opportunity to let you know about our major cycling event, The Nello, which is celebrating its 25th year. The Nello has a 60-mile route or a 100-mile route and will take place on Sunday 19th June 2025. We can promise you’ll have a fantastic day at this brilliant event!

This fantastic feel-good event was started in 2000 by Marc Millon, in memory of his friend Nello Ghezzo. Since the first Nello Century Cycle Challenge in 2000, the ride has raised nearly £1.3m for FORCE Cancer Charity, which works...

The Nello - 60 or 100 mile bike ride

The Nello - 60 or 100 mile Charity Bike Ride

Event Date: 
25/06/2023 - 8:00am
Venue: 
Topsham Rugby Club

The 24th Nello bike ride will take place on Sunday 25th June 2023.

Since the first Nello Century Cycle Challenge in 2000, the ride has raised more than £1.2m for FORCE Cancer Charity, which works locally to support anyone affected by cancer, face-to-face and close to home.

The ride has grown from attracting a field of 90 cyclists in that first year to regularly filling up to its 1,500 capacity. Choose from two great routes and be a part of this very special ride.

  • Discipline: Road Cycling
  • Distances: 60 miles | 100 miles
  • Event date:
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City gears up for charity cycle ride

Fifteen hundred cyclists will be heading out of Topsham on Sunday June 28 in an event that has raised more than £300,000 for local cancer charity FORCE in the past four years.

They will leave the rugby club from 8am onwards to tackle 100 or 55 mile routes around the Devon countryside on the annual Nello ride.

This is the biggest fundraising event in the charity’s calendar and its popularity attracts riders back year after year.

Adele Needham from Exeter, an emergency planner for Devon and Cornwall with the Environment Agency, has ridden the shorter course for the...