Mark Beaumont from Edinburgh, who holds the world record for both cycling around the world in less than 80 days and cycling the length of Africa, along with Jenny Graham from Inverness, who broke the world record for cycling unsupported around the world, will join the challenge.
Completing the team will be Hamish Graham from Yorkshire, who raced across Europe in 2025 and Martin Mansell, the force behind the Yorkshire Beast charity challenges.
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They will attempt to cycle the full length of Europe, travelling through seven countries in just over two weeks, averaging 220 miles per day, from the most northern point of Europe in Norway to the most southern tip in Spain.
The aim is to raise £100,000, half of which will go to the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, a charity that is funding pioneering research into Motor Neurone Disease and supporting families living with the disease.
The rest will go to the Yorkshire Children’s Charity, supporting children living with disability and hardship across the region with essential equipment and emergency resources.
During the challenge, the team will experience 24 hour daylight above the Arctic Circle, sub-zero temperatures, major Alpine climbs and the scorching heat of southern Spanish heartlands and mountains in the peak of summer.
“This is going to be a huge test of resilience, teamwork and mental toughness,” said Mansell, who recently raised funds for charity with Beaumont during a 1100-mile ride from Leeds to Nice in just under seven days.
“That was extremely difficult and unlike anything I’d ever done before but I wanted to go bigger this year to cycle the length of the entire continent,” he said.
“We’ll be riding ultra-distances day after day through extreme conditions, and despite having some great endurance athletes by my side it will still be an incredibly hard challenge for us all.
“To do this for these incredible charities that change people’s lives will be the purpose that will get us through the hardest moments.”
This endurance challenge follows the success of the 2024 and 2025 Yorkshire Beast challenges – a four-day 460-mile cycle across Yorkshire which raised £16,000 and the seven-day 1100-mile race from Leeds to Nice, where the team battled through the French Alps overnight to raise more than £55,000 for charity.