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I have signed up for enduroafrica. a 3,500km off road trip on ctx200's in aid of Riders for Health. I need help to raise cash so any ideas, spare change or sponsorship would be much appreciated.
www.westpenwith.co.uk (http://www.rideafrica.co.uk)
paultheold
01-09-05, 06:18 PM
What you mean is
"OI YOU LOT SPONCER ME" 8)
Are you going to do the ride with that seat ? :shock:
Just read the details on your site.
Very commendable!
£10 winging its way to you from this site.
"OI YOU LOT SPONCER ME"
Er.... Yes, I suppose I do, but I thought that being a predominantly male user site that "@Girl seeks cash for african adventure...." might get your attention better! :wink:
Are you going to do the ride with that seat ?
I have natural extra padding.....anyway, I'm still riding with the standard seat on the @ and I can't see what your all winging about (as she hobbles off to find a cushion) :roll:
£10 winging its way to you from this site.
Thanks Dave! :D
paultheold
01-09-05, 08:07 PM
I used to go camping at Botallack for over ten years, and watched the Gevor Tin Mine go into decline over that period. I love the area around St Just, funny thing is I am reading a book by Rosamunde Pilcher, Coming Home [yes I know it is Girly] which is about that area.
Well its not only Women that can deviate from the Topic in question.
Tut tut I am showing my softer side, that`s what Women make you do.
I'm off to Botallack on Sunday for the annual steam fair.
I will raise a glass to Fred on your behalf.
snaphappyninja
03-09-05, 09:03 PM
another tenner on its way :)
best of luck to you
another tenner on its way
Thank You :D
I'm 3 quid off £1000!!!!!!
Anyone out there going to make it a round number?
:lol:
www.rideafrica.co.uk
paultheold
19-09-05, 06:42 PM
Call me tight, but made it up to the round figure. :shock:
minjita
19-09-05, 06:52 PM
Call me tight, but made it up to the round figure. :shock:
£0? That is tight.
paultheold
19-09-05, 07:38 PM
Orricks it aint nowt
its a tad just over nowt
Paul,
you are a lovely, lovely man and it all helps.
As all girls know, size has nothing to to with quality.
Thank you.
I'm now £965 off £2000 if anyones feeling extra flush! :wink:
Also if any one is really that bored, week 4 of the get fit diary has just gone live.
Where did I put that donut........
jvaughan
19-09-05, 09:25 PM
Also if any one is really that bored, week 4 of the get fit diary has just gone live.
Where did I put that donut........
is this being sold privatly or is it available on the web for download ?
Sorry .. dirty mind :twisted:
blimey jason....mind like a sewer.....
its from the link on the top of all these replies...
and reading it makes me feel guilty.....don't remember the last time i had planned exercise!
Roy
is this being sold privatly or is it available on the web for download ?
Well if you really want to pay to read about me trying to get fit enough to ride a 200cc bike 2,500km across Africa there's a paypal link from the site! :wink: :wink:
www.rideafrica.co.uk
icenian
20-09-05, 10:30 AM
Also if any one is really that bored, week 4 of the get fit diary has just gone live.
If I give you a tenner will you please please stop talking about frying chips in your excess body fat?
wheeliebin
20-09-05, 09:11 PM
Can we have a sticky on this worthy thread Dave (then remove this post) ?
Dilbert
20-09-05, 10:06 PM
Hmm Paypal is too easy, just put in a number and press the button, still it's more worthy than some of my ebay purchases :lol:
please stop talking about frying chips in your excess body fat?
How about making soap, it worked as a plot in Fat Club....or was it Fight Club......
Anyway, never let another chip joke find its way to my typing fingers.
It is now official.
XRV owners are the most philanthropic and welcoming bikers on the planet.
Aarrgh... I've just read the write up in this months "TWO". They covered the reccy trip for Enduroafrica. Looks beautiful, but I'm hoping to take less damage along the way than they did.
I'm either too stupid to be scared or just too vain to admit it to myself.
I haven't decided which yet. :?
Dilbert
01-10-05, 04:13 PM
MissP
My advice is to just not think about it till it's all over and then you can look back and realise just how stupid you have been, it's difficult to quantify the degree of stupidity until you've completed the stupid thing.
Go girl, at least you'll have achieved something in your life :lol:
Minor wobble over for now.
I'm back to being excited about rhino's and flowers, and wondering how to make sure the airline don't loose my luggage in transit.
This is going to sound really sad but I saw someone stood next to an 747 wheel on TV this evening. It was HUGE. Bearing in mind I've never seen a passenger plane in the flesh I am as excited about seeing the plane as I am about anything else.
It's a sheltered life down here by the sea.....
Meanwhile, getting up and going to the gym in the dark is hard, but the sunrise over St. Micheal's Mount as I drop down into Penzance is spectacular.
fewtrees
31-10-05, 02:46 PM
blimey jason....mind like a sewer.....
Pot, kettle, black springs to mind..
Jason might be a cunning linguist but your'e a master debater!!!! :lol: :lol:
Thanks Sean
I have just updated the keep fit diary for anyone who may be interested. Its not the most exciting entry as I'm pretty much waffling on about the results of my 6 week gym analysis. Plus I completely forgot to mention the results of my own "music to gym to" quest which is currently running as follows:
Cardiovascular top 3
Beatles - sgt peppers
Red hot chilli peppers - anything
Tom Jones - reloaded
Weights/resistance work top 3
Kaiser Chiefs
Joss Stone
Nelly Furtado
It's the small things that stop me from loosing the will to gym.....
Dilbert
31-10-05, 08:07 PM
Plus I completely forgot to mention the results of my own "music to gym to" quest
I find anything "banging" (to use the current phrasioligy) i.e. Dance, Trance, etc, just as long as it "has a good beat Mr Cholmondley-Warner" don't you know.
Which is odd cos I normally hate the stuff, just don't try driving to Linkin Park :shock: you get there a lot quicker though! :twisted:
joss stone? :P I would eat her **** with a rusty spoon! she's gorgeous!
Dilbert
03-11-05, 09:14 PM
joss stone? :P I would eat her sh*t with a rusty spoon! she's gorgeous!
prefer Nelly Furtado personally despite the daft name
Hijack a thread....... wot....... me !
Red Setter
05-11-05, 06:05 PM
Have just been shown your thread by my better halve and because I do have paypal have £20 from us
Good luck and would love to see the pics when you get back
Take Care
Tracy and Roy
Thanks Tracy and Roy,
The donations are creeping up slowly.
Being based near Lands End I was wondering about organising a John O Groats to Lands End relay run next spring. I figured that we have members dotted all over the country and we must have someone "up top" who could start the run off. Then the baton (collection tin?) could be passed on from rider to rider and we would wind down the country picking up and loosing riders along the way. I could meet the rider/s who had made it down this far at Exeter and then we would continue down to Lands End for the obligatory XRV John O' Groats - Lands End photo.
Would this interest anyone?
Now that sounds like a plan...
Never been to Lands End before...
Indeed I'd be up for that and could do the Bristol to Exeter run quite happily.
Now that sounds like a plan...
Never been to Lands End before...
Well you did give me the idea when you suggested a fundraising run, this was the only way that I could see that anyone could take part without having to travel huge distances if they didn't want to.
I will start a formal thread about it in the New year to see who may want to join in.
HelmetHair
10-11-05, 01:02 PM
great idea! I'm up for it..
I'm just finding it incredible that miss p has the strength to throw an AT around, 'cause even I find mine gives me muscles!
I'm just finding it incredible that miss p has the strength to throw an AT around
Names can be deceptive. I am built like a sherman tank.
My avitar isn't a cartoon it's a self portrait! :lol: :lol:
Uh...uh...nice lady...nice lady.....*ducks and hides behind one of the guys* :blackeye:
Tornado
30-12-05, 08:16 PM
I got this charity i 've been donating to for years now, well pretty much all my adult life. I can assure you that it is a worth while cause. The charity goes by the name of "MBP" as your such a generous and giving sort i thought you also might like to donate?
Thanks
Dilbert
31-12-05, 03:02 PM
Hmm as the old Oxfam poster used to say "charity begins at home.....but it doesn't need to end there!"
But then there's nothing in My Back Pocket
icenian
11-01-06, 11:21 AM
Now that sounds like a plan...
Never been to Lands End before...
Well you did give me the idea when you suggested a fundraising run, this was the only way that I could see that anyone could take part without having to travel huge distances if they didn't want to.
I will start a formal thread about it in the New year to see who may want to join in.
How's this plan going? I could do a section from central Scotland down to the border, or from southern Highlands to central Scotland. Or from Southern Highlands to the border, if someone lends me a decent seat :?
It would be nice if we could arrange a photo at every hand over, so there would be a record of the trip. Would require digital cameras at each point, though this could be done so long as alternate riders in the "chain" have a camera.
It would also add some extra interest if we could make it a little more than a bunch of people riding 100-200 miles or so, i.e. a series of bog standard afternoon runs that get joined up. Off road isn't feasible. Would it be possible to go for silly minor roads - bit like the Boreen (sp???) Run do you reckon? You'd never manage the whole lot on unclassified roads, especially up north (check the map of Sutherland - pretty much anything with tarmac gets called an A road, even when it's single track!), but it would add a bit of spice to pick daft wee roads the whole way :D
Yep we ought to do something.
We have enough members I think we could use Frappr or something like that to map who's doing which bit?
Maybe charge a £5 entry fee which will help Miss P's fudn raising?
Miss P should start or end it at Lands End.
Sounds like fun and good way to meet people.
Dilbert
11-01-06, 01:04 PM
Count me in, but please wait till the sun starts shining again, I don't do cold and wet anymore :oops:
HelmetHair
11-01-06, 01:42 PM
also still interested....
icenian
11-01-06, 02:57 PM
OK we're doing quite well here!
The inimitable MissP herself can pick up from Exeter for the last bit.
DaveS can do Somerset area to Exeter.
Dilbert may be able to go from [erm Midlands somewhere I think] to Somerset?
I can do southern Scotland - lets say Forth to Hadrians Wall for the sake of argument...
Anyone up for legs something like this the following?
1 - Sutherland, North and West Highlands
2 - Central/Southern Highlands to Forth.
3 - Hadrians Wall to Lancashire/Yorkshire
4 - Lancs/Yorks to Dilbert's poorly defined Midlands starting point...
There should be scope for adding more legs, but I think the above is about the minimum?
(Bearing in mind it's supposed to be fun!)
Whealie
11-01-06, 03:09 PM
Anyone up for legs
I'm nowhere near but could do a bit and organise to stay with mates somewhere along the route.
Well if we take a 'round about route' we'll have more scope to add legs to and from differnet places - so it sort of turns it into an Olympic Torch style run...
What about including Northern and Southern Ireland?
Whealie
11-01-06, 03:59 PM
How can you miss out London?
Exactly! There are plenty of places this could go. The more who get involved the more money we will raise!
McVicar
11-01-06, 06:08 PM
I'm happy to do Somerset to Lands End. 160 miles is nothing for the mighty Varadero.
Kinell!
I'd meet McVicar anyway and carry the torch or whatever it is we're carrying northwards!
McVicar
11-01-06, 06:59 PM
I thought we were going Southwards. It's all gone pearshaped already. OMG !!! :o
feck!
Perhaps we can carry it there and back again!
Yeah! Via London, Luton, Cardiff and Abinger Hammer...
McVicar
12-01-06, 05:56 AM
Abinger Who ???
I am in peterhead.....so could do the last section sort of aberdeen up to the top........or down if you lot ever make your minds up which way we are going...........down sounds good ....i would get to start it all.....and knowing me ride with it all the rest of the way........now that sounds like a trip
Roy
oh....and what is it going to be ? if it starts from the top it should be a good bottle of the local brew.......quite a few to choose from up here !
Roy
Ok lets all stop been soft here 8)
Its only :!: 839 miles top to bottom why not do it in one hit, my dad did it on a push bike in two weeks, a long weekend and its sorted, those who don't fancy the lot can meet on way, we have the technology and the bikes to do it.
'I'm in' just need the pass out from her indoors :thumbright:
icenian
12-01-06, 12:53 PM
Hey, why not get everyone's address and feed the whole lot into a route planner :wink:
Or perhaps we xould to a circumnavigation rather than and 'end to end' - take whatever public roads runs closests to the sea all the way around. I call the west coast of Scotland segment :D
If we're going to send a bottle of malt down south, it has to be Old Pulteney (Wick).
Erm, maybe at some point though we should solicit the opinion of miss P herself..?
Wow, I womble off for a small peice of cake and by the time I manage to drag myself away from the Dakar to get online there's a plan hatching!
Thanks chaps.
I thought North to South. Circumnavigous is good by me. I will meet whoever wants to run the last leg. I can run the last pack down some fantastic Cornish roads. If we are taking the scenic route do we want to run over a few days? When was the Dartmoor trip? Maybe we could tie the two in together?
I too would like to wait for it to get a bit warmer first. I am a girl after all :roll:
If someone technical can rig up a map that everyone interested in can plot themselves on. We can work out a route.
Hey, why not get everyone's address and feed the whole lot into a route planner :wink:
Or perhaps we xould to a circumnavigation rather than and 'end to end' - take whatever public roads runs closests to the sea all the way around. I call the west coast of Scotland segment :D
If we're going to send a bottle of malt down south, it has to be Old Pulteney (Wick).
Erm, maybe at some point though we should solicit the opinion of miss P herself..?
do you think that bottle is going to make it :lol:
better take a few more . i might try and tie myself into this as well if work pemits :D
Miss P you've started some thing now, talking to mates at work and were going to try and do north to south in 24 hours :shock:
Anyone else up for it.
IanS
The man in the shed (aka Nick) did North to South a few years back, 2 up on an intruder 800cc. Took 18 hours in the pouring rain!
I couldn't cope with all the motorway driving myself. I would loose concentration and start thinking about bunny rabbits and flowers, which is never good when driving.
But that said i can still meet up for the last leg and guide you home
Take you up on that.
Was thinking of some sort tracking set up, so people could join us for a few miles on the way down.
IanS
McVicar
14-01-06, 03:36 PM
Yep, I'll meet you for the last couple of hundred miles.
Might need your big lights to guide us in.
Sort a date out soon.
IanS
this does sound good i could ride down and join up around exeter or somthing like that . :D now i must get a bloody tent sorted out :D
just so long as its not around the 26-29 may cos i'll be down at the run to the sun at trevellgue 8)
Ermm What did people decide to do about this in the End? :roll:
Miss P! You need to knock us all into shape and tell us what you want us to do - otherwise I think you'll have done the trip by the time we make up our minds... :P
And they say women take ages to decide things....
...Ohhh does my bum look big in these leathers :shock:
Do it :lol:
Just need to sort a date. Sometime late spring.
IanS
How about the weekend of Saturday 6th/Sunday 7th May?
It should be warm enough for most by then.
How would people like to organise the run?
Have we got any takers on the first leg - John O Groats heading south?
Can a technical wizard sort us out an online map so that we can mark on our start positions and plan a route?
...Ohhh does my bum look big in these leathers Yes MacP it probably does!
Man up North
04-02-06, 03:56 PM
Ill cladly join in any where round the south coast , Ms.P are you getting this televized ? if not , mite be a idea ? :P
...Ohhh does my bum look big in these leathers Yes MacP it probably does!
Ohhh - Looks like its back on the GI plan it is then! :D
See you all there!
Miss P How is fund raising going?
BTW...
If we've now decided on the date should this thread be moved or a new thread started in Meet ups and Rideout section now?
YEN_POWELL
04-02-06, 05:32 PM
BTW...
If we've now decided on the date should this thread be moved or a new thread started in Meet ups and Rideout section now?
Moved......
Thank you for flying with XRV.org.uk
I should be able to get radio & tv coverage of the arrival at Lands End, if nobody taking part objects.
Working on the the 6th May doesn't fall that good with shifts but seeing what I can do.
No problem with Press.
IanS
francis_geoff
07-02-06, 11:55 AM
24 hours should be a doddle - Ullapool to Devizes 11 hours.
Could clash with dartmoor?
CHANGE OF PLAN
There is another end to end bike run happening the week before, so we will need to change the date. They have already arranged press coverage.
It will be almost impossible to get any serious coverage either side of this event.
Another option may be to head down for 26-28th May, which would coincide with our local mag rally at the Lizard in Cornwall - The End of the Road Rally. The Lizard is Britains most Southernly point (as opposed to Lands End being the most Westerly). Maybe we could do North to South?
Its a small rally with camping, portaloos, beer tent, bands, burger van and a huge bonfire. Generally pretty friendly with between 70 and 220 people depending on weather. It costs £8 advance or £10 on the gate for the weekend. I can pre book tickets in my name if people fancy this as an alternative date and destination. Its a bank holiday weekend so would be cheap basic camping for anyone wanting to explore West Cornwall.
I should be able to get press coverage as it will be 2 events in one.
What do you think?
im going to be at the run to the sun but might take a run over to lizard if ya'll going to be there :D
Organising a run is definitely beyond me so I am opting for the following instead.
I will be holding auctions of secondhand motorcycle kit at the following rallies this summer:
Cornwall MAG - End of the Road, May 26-28th the Lizard Cornwall
Calstock Bike show and Regatta, August 4-6th Calstock, Cornwall
Thanks for everyones support with the idea of a run, most of you involved have donated individually already and it's unfair to rely on the same old wallets.
chronyx
22-02-06, 04:50 PM
Kernow-oholic here. :lol:
In fact this thread is very positive for me - I plan on riding to Scotland and back down to Cornwall sometime in the Summer with my other half (Between May and August) anyway, so if anyone comes up with dates etc I could try and work around them...
Tenner will be sent to MP come payday, roll on the 28th :D
byrneda
28-03-07, 06:02 PM
Wow!
Long time since this was updated.
Just seen the update on MissP's website, but where are the pics of Africa?
Did you go swimming with the Hippos?
Anyone out there??
:wav:
couldn't access the server to update the original site.
Trip diary & pics at
http://www.westpenwith.co.uk/diary.htm
dasoutham
03-12-07, 10:30 PM
couldn't access the server to update the original site.
Trip diary & pics at
http://www.westpenwith.co.uk/diary.htm
Brilliant! Really enjoyed reading this.
Cheers,
Dave
alpslapper
03-12-07, 10:33 PM
couldn't access the server to update the original site.
Trip diary & pics at
http://www.westpenwith.co.uk/diary.htm
fantastic write up and pics :thumbup:
couldn't access the server to update the original site.
Trip diary & pics at
http://www.westpenwith.co.uk/diary.htm
fantastic miss p what a journey :cool::cool::cool::cool:a great read and great pics im in awe:cool:
chronyx
23-12-07, 11:28 AM
What a brilliant read! Well done miss p :D
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