Shropshire's Rob wears nappy for fundraising naked bike ride
A Shropshire nurse will be sporting an unusual cycling costume this weekend in a bid to highlight an illness that has affected his family.
Rob Pyman, 43, from Bishop's Castle, will be wearing just a nappy for this year's Bristol World Naked Bike Ride, one of a series of similar events that take place in cities across the world.
Mr Pyman said: "There will be about 200 people taking part, it's a ride around the city centre. The main cause is to protest against the over-use of cars, but people have their own causes too."
Mr Pyman, a nurse at Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal hospitals, who has worked in urology in the past, has chosen to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK, having treated people with the condition.
He said the disease had also affected his family more than once.
"My father has had his prostate removed and had radiotherapy, and my father-in-law has been treated for prostate cancer too, so it has affected my family quite a lot," he said.
Mr Pyman said his uncle-in-law also died from prostate cancer.
"It is the most common form of male cancer, but many men won't talk about because they're embarrassed about the conditions of the examination and so on," he said.
"So I thought I'd set an example by showing I'm willing to be embarrassed by getting my 'ideal for radio' body out."
Mr Pyman chose the Bristol event because he went to university in nearby Bath and still has friends in the area.
"Hopefully a few of them will be turning up to join me," he said.
People can sponsor Mr Pyman at www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Rob-Pyman
