Pub customers are taking time out from the bar to get on their bikes for charity. 

A team of 28 cyclists, headed by Michael Willis, landlord of the Tite Inn, at Chadlington, started out on Monday on a 120-mile ride through Oxfordshire to Hurley, in Hampshire, and back again. 

They were joined for the send-off by Witney MP David Cameron, who though not riding this time, has previously joined the Chadlington bikers in charity fundraising rides. 

They aim to raise more than £10,000 for three Oxfordshire charities, Oxfordshire Association for the Blind, Katharine House Hospice, and CRY – Cardiac Risk in the Young. 

Mr Willis aid: “The roads around the village have seen teams of cyclists in training for the past few weeks, many of whom have not cycled more than a couple of miles in a day for ages. 

“The bad news is that there are hills at the start and finish of the route each day, but we are all looking forward to the flat bits in the middle.  It will be hard work, but it’s for three great charities.”