Welcome to Bikers for Beating Bowel Cancer

Thursday 9 September: 10.00pm. Well, we're finally here ready (almost!) to hit the road. Panniers are packed, 6.00am alarm set and a set of google maps laminated to protect against rain (anything standing still enough for long enough is now at serious risk of getting coated in plastic!). And the bike is gleaming - it's never looked this good...

The weather forecast looks fair and at 7.30am our four day two-wheeled mini tour will begin. Richard will be riding, navigating and generally being Officer Commanding and Clare will basically just hope not to fall off and/or fall asleep. Our Big British Ride will touch on the home nations of England, Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland then back through England, in four days. We'll keep you posted with blogs and tweets (below and to the right) so stay with us!

A huge thank you to everyone for helping us to raise funds and awareness for Beating Bowel Cancer through our Big British Ride - in memory of a lovely lady who meant so much to so many people, Kath Maynard (aka The Mothership).

Have a quick look at the links to the right below about the bike, the route, a bit more about bowel cancer (with a lovely pic of mother at our wedding and (of course!) the link to click if you would still like to make a donation.

So what would mother think? We like to think she'd approve ....



Thank you and see you soon ! Richard, Clare and Russell (Father).

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Two Little Boys

No, not the two little boys in the Rolf Harris song. Classic though it was. No, these two little boys spent their Christmas holidays in about 1975 or 1976 building a go-kart. A corker, too. Radical steering system, 'brakes', and it even had a 'registration number' - CEA 41R. which stood for 'Combined Efforts At' the address where we built it. So thanks, Dave, for your generous donation - I like to think that our mothers are looking on approvingly, relieved that we're staying out of mischief! Now 1,000 miles on a go-kart, that really would be a challenge...
Thanks also to our latest sponsors, Judy and Steve Down (I've come a long was since Steve let his irritating, specky 14-year-old second cousin ride his motorbike round the field!) and Karen Marshall.
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