'At five minutes past eight on the morning of Sunday 19th June, Janet Andrews-MacKay of the Stewartry Wheelers team rode back into the trailhead at Glentress Forest, Peebles, to complete the inaugural running of the 7/24 Challenge Ride in a blistering 21 hours five minutes. The challenge ride, two hundred and eighty miles including ninety miles off road and incorporating red or black grade routes at all of the 7Stanes centres, is ridden as a relay by teams of four cyclists. This year's event was a trial run and entry was deliberately limited.'

OK, so we did it. We had a brilliant ride, and we proved the concept of a relay event over the 7stanes. We'd like to open it up; to 40 teams in 2006, to perhaps more in future years. But if we're to do this, we're going to have to have help. Which is where you come in. This document is intended to persuade you that this is an event with a lot of potential, an event which is going to attract a lot of interest, and that having your name associated with it is going to enhance you brand in a key marketplace - young, active people with money to spend.

But we don't just ask you to help us.

we challenge you