Tim Bright lives up to his name. When I first make contact with him, he is 667 miles deep into an attempt to cycle around the nearly 5,000-mile long coastline of mainland Britain on a classic Raleigh Chopper, and the frame on his bike has just snapped. It looks like it could be the end of the road to me, but Bright radiates optimism. To be fair, he has faced much bigger obstacles than this in the past. And he’s still going strong.
In 2016, Bright was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia. The condition is incurable, but these days it can be managed with medication, and once Bright had things under control, he started thinking of ways he could both raise money for cancer charities, and show that he wasn’t about to be beaten by the disease.
