Gathering interest for a charity ride - Prostate Cancer

One of the Paramedics I work with is doing 2 Marathons this year for Prostate Cancer - the post to this is HERE

It sparked off an idea to maybe look at organising some kind of charity ride in the summer. Just a few ideas I came up with so far prior to looking at dates etc;

Maybe amalgamate with other bike forums we might be members of and really make an impact?

Look at getting someone like MAG (Motorcycle Action Group) in on it as well as they are pretty good at organising stuff like marshalling etc?

I have a few contacts in the police who might be able to offer some advice on best ways to safely pull this off - or are some of you a bit twitchy about riding around police? They're usually pretty cool with stuff they might normally pull you for when doing big event rides like this - loud exhausts and dark visors etc.

It could also be a good way of putting Bikething on the map in terms of promotion or if this was the case would we be better looking at keeping it a Bikething event rather than trying to amalgamate other forums/site as they would no doubt want to be putting their name to it as well?

Also if you could link Julie's JustGiving page to any posts you might want to post on other forums or sites or even at work, that would be fantastic.

Your views and opinions greatly appreciated.

The only reason this sparked as an idea was after my work colleague saying she was doing it for charity - thought it might be a good idea.

I'm actually organising it through BIKETHING but thought I'd gather a bit of interest through here first rather than spamming another forum with it. It is for charity though so...