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CaNsA
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PostPosted: 23:06 - 17 Feb 2011    Post subject: Anyone in the North West...... (Charidee ask) Reply with quote
Fancy doing me a favour?

Need a cylinder rebore and cant afford the £30 do get it done Sad

50cc cylinder, its only small.

In return I can offer your company name/logo or face on the bodywork as advertisement/sponsorship Very Happy

The scoot needs to be sorted within 4weeks for a charity run from Knockhill to Brands Hatch.
There is a sizeable group of us all on 50cc scoots.

All the cash raised will be handed to the North West Air Ambulance Service.


If you can help me out with a rebore i will be eternally grateful.

Cheers

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PostPosted: 14:23 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
bump,

Surely some-one can help.
Its for a very very good cause Very Happy
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PostPosted: 14:25 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can't afford £30? Jeez.
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PostPosted: 14:50 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
No mate, hence the thread really dude.

Money is well tight at the moment.
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PostPosted: 14:55 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
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No mate, hence the thread really dude.

Money is well tight at the moment.


How can you afford petrol? Especially now it costs about a gazillion* pence per litre


*This may be an exaggeration.
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PostPosted: 15:02 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
How can you afford petrol? Especially now it costs about a gazillion* pence per litre


*This may be an exaggeration.



As he lives in or around Liverpool, he does what everyone else does and steals it. Wink
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PostPosted: 16:00 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
TBH Marjay, its not really any of your business why or how i can and cant afford stuff.

this thread was created in the hope that someone would be able to help out on a project that is for a good cause.

If a mod sees this can they please clean up this thread as it is waaaaay off topic.

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PostPosted: 16:10 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
TBH Marjay, its not really any of your business why or how i can and cant afford stuff.

this thread was created in the hope that someone would be able to help out on a project that is for a good cause.

If a mod sees this can they please clean up this thread as it is waaaaay off topic.

Cheers


I'd say it is significant in that if you're trying to do something for charity and you can't even afford petrol, then where are your charitable contributions going? To pay for the journey?

It is a worthwhile question IMO, and I doubt you'll find anyone who'll do a rebore for free. It takes specialist equipment and then if you can't afford £30 for a rebore how are you going to afford piston, rings, circlips, gudgeon pin, and gaskets?
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PostPosted: 16:19 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
We have a company donating a fuel card for us to use
We have a company providing us with spares
We have a company providing accommodation
We have a company providing fluids
seeing a pattern here?

All in return for the scooters being covered with the company's names.
The money raised through sponsorship and the sale of the scooters on ebay after the run has been done will be given to the North West Air Ambulance.
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PostPosted: 16:36 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
We have a company donating a fuel card for us to use
We have a company providing us with spares
We have a company providing accommodation
We have a company providing fluids
seeing a pattern here?

All in return for the scooters being covered with the company's names.
The money raised through sponsorship and the sale of the scooters on ebay after the run has been done will be given to the North West Air Ambulance.


Fair enough, and I wish you luck on getting that. I wish I would get sent on an all expenses paid jolly around the UK on motorbikes.
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PostPosted: 16:59 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cheers for being no help what so ever Marjay.

And thanks again for doing your best to slate something is trying to help people.

I know a few people who's lives have been saved by the NWAA and im glad to do something that isnt easy, albeit fun, that will help them.

Oh and dude, its on scooters not motorbikes. 50cc scoots that we are fixing up ourselves. Kindly donated by a couple of bike breakers.
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PostPosted: 17:16 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kinda see marjays point here, you're not fixing them yourself you are begging on here for someone to fix it for you.
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PostPosted: 17:30 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
Cheers for being no help what so ever Marjay.

And thanks again for doing your best to slate something is trying to help people.

I know a few people who's lives have been saved by the NWAA and im glad to do something that isnt easy, albeit fun, that will help them.

Oh and dude, its on scooters not motorbikes. 50cc scoots that we are fixing up ourselves. Kindly donated by a couple of bike breakers.


To be honest I'm not bothered what you think but its probably worth noting that we've been around this loop several times previously on this forum where people have suggested they do silly long journeys on small bikes for charity. It has pretty much been agreed that its a jolly whether its on a GSXR1000 or a Tomos moped with drawing pins in the saddle.

In all honesty I wish you luck.
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PostPosted: 17:45 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
A biker died last weekend about 2 miles from my house, and seriously injured another person, if it wasn't for the air ambulance team they both would have died roadside, I think sometimes BCF can be a bit up it's own arse when it comes to charity involving someone riding a bike for a charity.

He isn't being paid to ride the bike, he is riding the bike to get money for a good cause, I would totally and utterly agree with all the sentiments posted by Marjay and Dodsi if CaNsA was asking us for cash so he can ride a bike and use that cash we donate as fuel money, food money etc then yeah I would say feck off, but if he has had everything donated to him and ALL the money is going to charity then I cant see the problem with him trying to beg/scrounge for something.

We all ride bikes, we all take the risk when out on them that we may find our talent bag empty or someone runs into us, or we run into someone in the middle of nowhere and the air ambulance is needed, why not give them a helping hand in case God forbid we ever need a helping hand off them.

CaNsA depending on how much cash I have as it is a tight month, (owed £40k no one wants to pay their bills) and as long as you could prove that the money wasn't going in to your own pocket I would happily donate £10 towards getting the bike fixed.
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PostPosted: 18:07 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cansa good luck mate im no help here but you are doing it for a good cause and dont need the hassle...
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PostPosted: 18:19 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
dodsi wrote:
Kinda see marjays point here, you're not fixing them yourself you are begging on here for someone to fix it for you.


So every home mechanic has the tools to do a re-bore? Rolling Eyes

pits wrote:
...I think sometimes Marjay can be a bit up his own arse when it comes to charity involving someone riding a bike for a charity.


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PostPosted: 19:23 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
ms51ves3 wrote:
dodsi wrote:
Kinda see marjays point here, you're not fixing them yourself you are begging on here for someone to fix it for you.


So every home mechanic has the tools to do a re-bore? Rolling Eyes

pits wrote:
...I think sometimes Marjay can be a bit up his own arse when it comes to charity involving someone riding a bike for a charity.


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What else can I do but wish him well? Have I not done that twice in this thread already?

The thing about this is, if this were me and £30 was jeapordising a fantastic adventure like this and I didn't have the money, I'd be ebaying stuff left right and centre. I'd be calling in debts, I'd be washing cars, I'd be doing ANYTHING I could to get the money. What I would NOT do is be asking on the forum for someone to do the work for free because the likelihood of that happening is minimal. Plus, £30 is such a small amount of money you're trying to tell me that Cansa can't get it from anywhere in four weeks? He can't forgo his smokes, beer, nights out, a weekend thrash on his bike, the new Justin Beiber CD or whatever to do this fantastic thing that sounds like such a laugh?

I tell you what, I'll prove to you that £30 is not a lot of money. If Cansa PM's me his email address, I'll paypal him £30 as a gift right now. No questions asked. If he wants to pay me back at a later date, then that is fine, but I won't chase him for it. I think that would prove that I wish him well on this endeavor, which at the end of the day, is a jolly.

So, Cansa, I await your PM.

{edit} Its probably worth pointing out, that most of these charidee events require the participant to raise a certain amount of cash before they start off, to prevent just this sort of lack of initiative from people wanting to do something that is, effectively, once in a lifetime. I will Paypal Cansa the money no questions asked, but if I find out this event isn't real, or he doesn't end up going, then I won't be happy obviously. Arguably there isn't a lot I can do about it though. {edit}
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PostPosted: 20:09 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
I tell you what, I'll prove to you that £30 is not a lot of money to me.


You don't know what he earns and what his outgoings are. Who are you to tell him £30 isn't a lot of money?

Have a word with yourself will ya?

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Marjay rides again.

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PostPosted: 20:21 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cheers for the pledges and positive comments guys.

The event is organised by a local bike club (bit like how the egg run is organised) and the NWAA are onboard and sorting us with T-Shirts, stickers, banners etc Very Happy

One of the guys is making a website at the moment, from what i hear it should be live in a few days Very Happy

As soon as it is live then ill post the link on here along with my paypal address.

We have just been told that the CJ Riders Fund will be sorting us out with tyres for all the scooters, how friggin cool is that!

For anyone that doesnt know Chris Jones died whilst racing at the BSB round at Cadwell.

Its a good thing to see people offering what they can whether its rubber, parts, scoots or cash.
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PostPosted: 21:00 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Flip wrote:
MarJay wrote:
I tell you what, I'll prove to you that £30 is not a lot of money to me.


You don't know what he earns and what his outgoings are. Who are you to tell him £30 isn't a lot of money?

Have a word with yourself will ya?


One might argue if he can't get the money hook or by crook, then he can't go on the jolly can he?

Flip, I understand what you're getting at, and ordinarily I'd perfectly agree with you... however these days it costs at least £15 to fill up a reasonable sized sportsbike. Insurance is expensive, tax isn't cheap and so if you can't afford £30, can you afford to run a motorcycle?

{edit} I should also point out that I have to pay a mortgage and my partner is not earning money at the moment so we can all argue poverty in our own ways, but as I said, I can afford a motorcycle (which is ultimately a toy) therefore I can spare the odd £30 here and there.
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PostPosted: 21:23 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
Stuff. (Edited to keep the post small)


Sometimes it's down to timing. £30 maybe be a lot now but may not be much in 6 months due to vehicle insurance, tax etc being paid off for example. In the grand scheme of things it isn't much but if he doesn't have it, he doesn't have it. But to use your example, £30 is 2 weeks petrol to him. Smile

TBH at the moment I'd have to weigh up whether I could spare £30 or not. I've thought about selling the bike (it is just a toy these days) but the missus and my Dad looked at me like I'm soft. Laughing(I've spent nearly £70 today and all I have to show for it is £30 worth of diesel. Sad )
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PostPosted: 21:33 - 18 Feb 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Flip wrote:
MarJay wrote:
Stuff. (Edited to keep the post small)


Sometimes it's down to timing. £30 maybe be a lot now but may not be much in 6 months due to vehicle insurance, tax etc being paid off for example. In the grand scheme of things it isn't much but if he doesn't have it, he doesn't have it. But to use your example, £30 is 2 weeks petrol to him. Smile

TBH at the moment I'd have to weigh up whether I could spare £30 or not. I've thought about selling the bike (it is just a toy these days) but the missus and my Dad looked at me like I'm soft. Laughing(I've spent nearly £70 today and all I have to show for it is £30 worth of diesel. Sad )


I agree, and to be honest, right now... I shouldn't be sparing £30 to give away but I am prepared to do so in order that Cansa gets to go on his trip. As I said, if I were short of cash I'd be putting computer games and DVD's on ebay, I'd be offering to wash people's cars for a fiver a shot, I'd be taking my collection of coppers to the bank to scrape together enough to go. I'm not saying that £30 is insignificant, because it isn't, but I'm saying that it is an amount of money I could scrape together no matter how dire my financial circumstances. Fercreissakes, a guy on here is owed £40k, and yet he's still willing to give cash to a bloke on the internet.

I'm not that bothered about the principle though, I'm just sick of people firing up the "MarJay is being a cock" rhetoric, because in actual fact I'm not. I'm trying to show the world as I see it, which happens to be from the perspective of someone who has less than £50 in the bank, and needs petrol to get to work next week.
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CaNsA wrote:


The event is organised by a local bike club.


Which one?
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Skudd wrote:
CaNsA wrote:


The event is organised by a local bike club.


Which one?


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