Nello

The start of the 24th annual Nello bike ride for FORCE Cancer Charity

Fun in the sun at Nello 2023

The 24th annual Nello cycle ride in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity is on course to raise £60,000.

Nearly 900 cyclists took to the roads around Devon to support the Exeter-based charity, which offers free support and advice to local people affected by cancer.

The riders tackled 60 or 100 mile routes in glorious sunshine, starting and finishing at Topsham Rugby Club.

They came from all over the world to take part.

Craig Muldoon travelled 6,000 miles from Thailand to his former home town of Topsham be a part of an event he first rode 20 years ago.

He lost...

The start of The Nello 2019

Nello goes virtual for 2020

FORCE Cancer Charity’s flagship fundraising event is going virtual for 2020.

Ongoing restrictions around the Coronavirus pandemic and mass gatherings mean that FORCE’s annual Nello cycle ride cannot go ahead as planned this summer.

Instead, cyclists will be offered the chance to take part in three different challenges that they can do independently.

There will be a new addition to the Nello’s traditional 55 and 100 mile options – the 25-mile Furloughed Flyer.

This opens up the event for the first time to anyone who doesn’t feel capable of tackling the...

Special Italian connection for The Nello 2017

This year’s Nello cycle ride in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity has been described as possibly the best ever.

The Nello is the biggest fundraising event of the year for FORCE, which works locally to offer face-to-face support for anyone affected by cancer.

This year’s event will raise an estimated £75,000.

Riders tackled 55 or 100 mile routes around glorious Devon and Somerset countryside in variable weather condition.

The ride started and finished at Topsham Rugby Club with everyone pedalling to Tiverton where the course split.

The 100-mile challenge...

The Nello Bike Ride

Event Date: 
26/06/2016 - 7:15am
Venue: 
Topsham Rugby Club, Exeter Road, Topsham, Exeter, Devon, EX3 0LY

Cycle 55 or 100 miles on an organised ride around the beautiful Devon countryside.

There will food stops available along the way to give you an energy boost! Receive a medal when you arrive back at Topsham Rugby Club along with a very warm welcome! The Nello is not a sportive; it is a charity bike ride, raising vital funds for a local cancer charity.

The ride is NOT chip timed; it is NOT a race.

All cyclists are welcome to enter this event but we ask them to bear this in mind when entering.

Entry is capped at 1500 participants. Places are non-refundable and...

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...

Gilbert Stephens say hello to the Nello

Authored by Stacy Hill
Posted: Thu, 06/04/2015 - 3:55pm

For the third year, Devon based Solicitors, Gilbert Stephens, is entering a team for the Nello, as well as sponsoring the event and supplying a band of volunteers to help on the day. On June 28th teams of cyclists will head off on the Nello 57 or 100 mile bike ride across the county, to raise much needed funds for FORCE cancer charity.

Around 1500 cyclists will start the ride at Topsham Rugby Club and will make their way up through Devon, to Tiverton Morchard Road, Crediton and all the way back to the finish line in Topsham. The aim of the day is to come together to raise money to...