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Yes, they did. Apologies for delayed response. Some needed a little more cajoling than others, and some made it despite having made some shocking bike choices. Two brothers made it all the way on £99 bikes from 'King Of Bikes' in Neasden. The bikes were utter crap, barely roadworthy. A demonstration though of their determination conquering their shortcomings in the kit dept.
We will have collected all monies sometime in Sept when term starts again. The estimated total is about £8k for charity, so a worthwhile endeavour. I am intending to mount another trip next year to a different destination. There was great value for the kids in learning not only some basic cycling and maintainence skills, but in what they could do if they put their mind to it (or, more realistically, I gave 'firm' encouragement knowing that they could do it). None of the 12 that we took had any real cycling experience beforehand (a rather sorry reflection of many children in London these days I suspect) and all expressed an interest in cycling as a regular activity now.
Yaks- sorry, I can't maake good on my initial offer of route files as am writing this from NYC and all the info is on my computer at home. Sorry and good luck.