Team members include
former and current road professionals, and well-known cycling personalities, with UK riders Emma Davies, Alice Monger-Godfrey and Tanja
Slater planning to
join local legend Penny Krohn at the start line in Cape Town on 8 March. The Pick n Pay
Cycle Tour will be their first official outing as a team. Emma Davies won a bronze medal at the
2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, just six months after she was nearly paralysed in a hit-and-run accident while out training. She suffered a compressed stress fracture in her lower back after part of her bone broke and became lodged just 2mm from her spinal cord. After fighting her way back to health, Emma set up a charity to raise money for
the spinal injury unit that helped her in Salford, Manchester, called Emmas Spinal Hope. Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Davies made her first appearance for Great Britain
as a junior and went on to complete in the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Olympics. After
her accident she moved from the track to ride for womens road team Vlaanderen and Swift
Racing, based in Oudenaarde,
Belgium. She recently retired from
the stress of professional cycling. Alice Monger-Godfrey is HotChillees youngest team member. At only 19, she has racing
experience well beyond her years. She was part of the successful
Glendene Cycling Club as a junior, which catered for many promising
riders including Alex Dowsett and Peter Kennaugh. As a first year
senior, last year, Monger-Godfrey joined Swift
Racing, juggling her A-level studies and exams with trips to race in Belgium.
Slater retired from
professional sport in March 2008, with the intention of competing as an amateur
triathlete and time triallist. She ran the New York Marathon in November, finishing in
4:47:51.