A HUNDRED Aviva employees yesterday used exercise bikes at the firm’s office in Wellington Row, York, to cycle 200 kms, the distance of Sunday’s Stage Two.

They raised more than £4,000 for eight local charities.

Each of the eight teams will cycle 200 kilometres using static bikes in the firm’s Wellington Row offices in Andrew Smith and Richard Romaniak who planned the event said: “We wanted a way to celebrate, have some fun and raise money for some worthy causes.”