Hundreds gearing up to Cycle for Sight

The second Cycle for Sight, a bike ride to raise money for vision research, kicks off in Toronto June 19.

Cycle for Sight co-founder Erin George and spouse Andrew Hodge with their tandem bike. (Courtesy: Erin George)
The event will cover 140 km and will raise money for the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB), a research charity working to help those affected by genetic forms of blindness.
One third of the participants are vision impaired and will ride the event on tandem bikes. These two-rider bikes can be a challenge, event co-founder Erin George told TheDailyPlanet.com.
“When you’re cycling, you really do things instinctively and out of habit and you just do it, you don’t have to communicate it and articulate it the way you do on a tandem bike. It’s just learning to vocalize your actions before you take them and that’s a bit of a challenge,” she said.