It’s Children in Need time again, with many people doing strange things in aid of the BBC’s annual charitython. Some of them involve bicycles, including the Team Midland 24 Hour Pudsey Trackathon. The event involves quite a lot of riders taking turns to carry a small teddy bear around Calshot velodrome, with the Pudsey-carrying rider being supported by a bunch of team-mates to keep the pace up.

As well as the organising Team Midland, there’ll be riders from Birmingham CC, Chippenham Wheelers, Bournemouth Arrow, Poole Wheelers, New Forest CC, Red Kite Cycles and special guests Team Magnus Maximus from Sweden. Plus Bikemagic editor Mike, who’ll be trying not to slow down the NFCC team too much.

In 2008, the collected riders carried Pudsey 560 miles and raised £7,500, a pair of pretty impressive totals. This year the goal is to beat both of those numbers. Well, we say “beat”, organiser Graham Hewson prefers “crush”.

More details (and the all-important donating bit) at www.justgiving.com/tmpudsey24hr. And if you’re involved with, or know of, any other bike-related Children in Need shenanigans, post them in the forum below…