TWO cyclists who rode from the National Botanic Garden of Wales to Kew Gardens in London on bamboo bikes they built themselves have been named among a charity’s ‘quirkiest’ fundraisers.

The pair took part in a trial ride to Brecon earlier this year to pick up a bottle of Bamboo beer from Brecon Brewing before embarking on their 230-mile bike ride in June, which raised £6,400 for the British Heart Foundation.

Dr Adrian Raybould is a consultant cardiologist from Llanddeusant and his friend Dan Holley is from Cross Hands.

The duo have now been named as BHF’s fourth quirkiest fundraisers of the last year.

They hatched the idea of the ride after Dan’s father, Kevin, suffered a heart attack in 2016.

The pair said their trial run to Brecon had a double motivation as James Marr who spearheaded the bamboo bike at his home in Glasbury before moving to London and setting up a workshop there is from the Brecon Beacons and Brecon Brewing is also based in the town.

Dr Raybould, who is a heart specialist at Morriston Hospital in Swansea, said before the ride that heart disease is the biggest killer of people in the UK, with one person dying on average every three minutes.