Movember cyclist creates hairy head across London
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Anthony Hoyte hopes to raise £3925 - a pound for every man's life lost to suicide in 2020
A cyclist who calls himself the "Pedalling Picasso" has traced a route across London depicting a moustachioed man.
Anthony Hoyte cycled 75 miles to create the image, which is made using a GPS tracker.
Mr Hoyte, who is 53 and from Cheltenham, has previously cycled a Santa face across the West Midlands and a reindeer head over London.
His latest work is to raise money for men's mental health charity Movember.
It took him just under eight-and-a-half hours pedalling around the capital to draw the face using exercise route-tracking app Strava.
Mr Hoyte hopes to raise £3925 - a pound for every man's life lost to suicide in 2020.
Mr Hoyte has also cycled a Santa around the West Midlands and a reindeer across London
Movember , externalstarted in 2003 and focuses on men's mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. The charity encourages people to grow a moustache throughout November, believing the "powerful upper-lip accessory commands attention, demands a double-take and compels lifesaving conversations".
It also raises cash through sponsored moustache-growing and other activities.
"I've been doing these drawings for a few years now, usually for a bit of fun, but I decided to do something different this year. I've had a few struggles with my own mental health over the years, and as a typical bloke, I don't find it easy opening up," Mr Hoyte said.
"It was harder than I thought it might be. I've done a few faces, and I started by trying to add a moustache to one of them, but that didn't work, so I started from scratch. The whole thing took about three months to plan.
"On the day things were complicated by a few road closures, so I had to modify the route on the hoof. I'm also not as fit as I could be, so I was shattered by the end."
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