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).

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The word spreads

Those of you in the Cheltenham area may like to check out tomorrow's edition of the Gloucestershire Echo (Thursday, August 19) - they've promised to run an article about us on their Charlton Kings district page. It's a good piece, I know - I wrote it! (Their assistant news editor  was impressed by the 'pitch perfect' copy. I ought to do it for a living!)
It will also be in the Newbury Weekly News this week as well, also published on August 19.
Less supportive was a certain ferry operator, whose name sounds uncannily like a brand of incontinence pad. Having initially failed to respond to my messages, asking only for any support they could offer, they finally came back a week after we had booked our crossings. We could have a free crossing, they said, but we'd have to cancel our existing booking. For which there would be no refund. So not really free then. At all.
But no matter, the support that matters comes from the good people who have sponsored us, so, since the last update, big thanks go to: Cheryl Evans, Carole and Claudio, Christine and David, Claire Alderton, Sarah, Jane and Ray, Jackie Markham, Pam Webb, John, Clare and Alex, and Brie, Mike and William Beharrell.
Keep watching this space...

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