A DAD at a county primary school is taking part in an epic cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’ Groats.

Scott Wallace set off on the gruelling 1,000 mile pedal on Saturday in a bid to raise the £2,500 needed to buy five laptops for pupils, including his five-year-old son, Joel, at Clifford Primary School.

He’ll start the ride in Land’s End and hopes the wind will be with him so that, at best, he’ll have travelled the length of Great Britain in just seven days. Most cyclists allow 10 to 14 days for the trip.

However Scott, who did a lot of cycling in his youth, including a 2,500 mile ride from London to Warsaw, has been in training, cycling with Hay Bike Club and on his own around the lanes of Herefordshire, rediscovering the beautiful countryside where he grew up.

Scott, who is 47 and has type one diabetes, said he hadn’t, in fact, been particularly desperate to cycle from Land’s End to John O’ Groats, but thought the well-known ride was something quantifiable that supporters could see and recognise.

“It’s for a good cause and seemed like a really good thing to do. I have just been going out and doing huge quantities of cycling. Herefordshire is amazing. I had not lived here for 25 years and have moved back. I can’t get over how beautiful it is. I’m constantly cycling and taking photos,” said Scott, who grew up in Hereford.

He studied design and animation and now runs his own animation company, using computers all the time.

He said that if he hadn’t learnt how to use a computer he would not have a job, so it had seemed like “utter madness in this day and age that schools can’t get funding for laptops.”

Scott and his partner Cat will travel with Joel to Land’s End in Cornwall in a campervan borrowed from another parent. Cat and Joel will then accompany Scott back as far as Chepstow, where Scott will then meet up with his parents.

His fundraising cycle ride can be supported via a crowd funding page. Please go to crowdfunder.co.uk/cliffords-got-talent to make a pledge.