Long Way Down - North West Blood Bikes

[whiteheadpaul...]

Hi All

On the 2nd of July 2013, I am going to attempt a new End to End record, riding my motorcycle from John O'Groats to Land's End, using ONLY A and B roads, I have a target time of under 20 hours to complete this 1,000 Mile ride. I will be raising money for North West Blood Bikes.

North West Blood Bikes is a charity which bikes urgently needed blood, drugs, records and breast milk to hospitals out of hours and bank holidays, without blood bikes, urgently needed medical suppliers are simply put in a TAXI!, this costs the NHS a fortune and also delays the time it takes to get where it is needed.

Please help support this brilliant cause by supporting me on my insane motorcycle ride.

Please Please visit my Just Giving Page and donate as much as you can or as little to try and help me achieve this goal for North West Blood Bikes.

Just Giving Page: www.facebook.com/paulslongwaydown

Please visit and share my facebook page for this event, www.facebook.com/paulslongwaydown

[lihp]

Another one who wants a paid for holiday


If they were so desperate for help, they would reply to the numerous people who have offered services that have been simply ignored
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[whiteheadpaul...]

There are several Blood Bike divisions, I ride for North west, and they DO reply to people offering their services and are a good group, I don't know about other Blood Bike groups in the country.

As for riding 1,000 miles in under 20 hours, please come back to me when you have done it, and say how much of a holiday it was, as I assure you, endurance riding is not a holiday.

Secondly, all the money raised, 100% of it will be going to the charity and not my costs for this trip, after very hard work I have corporate sponsors covering this.

Paul

[lihp]

Look around, there are plenty of cases of NW Blood Bikers ignoring offers of volunteers recently and numerous over the past 12 months also.

I'm not a fan of, I'll go riding for a bit if you donate money for charity.

And will never donate money without evidence that person doing it is funding it ENTIRELY themselves, the bike, hotels, fuel, insurance, unpaid time off work.

Otherwise it's just an excuse to go out for a ride at somebodies expense
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[whiteheadpaul...]

I agree there are cases of people doing things like this for their own gain.

However, I was funding everything myself, until corporate sponsors offered to help, also this is not really "just going for a ride", this is a End to End record attempt, riding constantly for 20 hours (or under) on A roads.

So therefore your comments are not only insulting to people like myself that set these records, but saying "I'll ride for a bit" is somewhat inaccurate. I completely understand people don't want to donate to something, but why make a song and dance of it and insult people who are raising money for what is essentially a good cause.

Grow up and pipe down.

[lihp]

Because the forum gets posters on very regular basis, with no imagination all doing the same things for the same people that always involves them going for a ride that others pay for.

And it's always by people who sign up for that 1 reason alone.
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[Rogerborg]

You're asking for money to put in the tank of your Battenburged Pan Euro so that you can ride around having a great laugh with your jollymob.

If you chucked it in tomorrow, our taxes would go up by tuppence ha'penny, and the NHS might even create some steady jobs for bikers.

Log out link is at the top right.
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[Rogerborg]

I actually think they're doing great stuff, bully for them, best of British and all that. But it's a jolly, not a calling. If you want to ride around in livery for larks, wizard, but don't lean down from your iron high horse to rattle your can in my face.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Skudd]

Where are the NorthWest Blood Bikes based?
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