Archive for 15/01/2008
Diary
15/01/2008 by admin.
Tuesday 15th January 2008.
For one week now we have started to organise this trip. In that time we have contacted our chosen charities, planned a route, set up this web blog, located but not seen one Honda C90 and made a general plan of attack of how we can promote and rise as much money as possible.
Yesterday we went Live with this Blog and today we post our first Diary log. Nothing much to say yet just that we are in the early stages of our planning and will post entries as and when things devlope.
Regards
Gary , Barrie
Rider Profile - Gary Baxter
15/01/2008 by admin.
Hi
I’m a 37 year old male living in the quiet village of Mynydd y Garreg, with my wife Anouska and our 17 month old baby Thomas Owain Baxter
My reason for undertaking this journey is to raise money and awareness for the charity Motor Neurone Disease after the sad loss of my mother to this cruel disease at the young age of 52, I have always had an interest in motorbikes and travel and have raced motocross from a very young age, then progressed onto the road bikes and then back to Enduro’s, and thought it would be a challenging yet rewarding way of raising money by circumnavigating the British Coast on Honda C90 stepthrough’s
The idea of using Honda 90’s has come from a couple of mates who have travelled some ridiculous distances on these fantastic bikes, slowly but yes some ridiculous distances and I though that they would be ideal, to make the journey fun yet more difficult whilst generating more interest in the trip. Barrie my work colleague and friend initially wanted to use his 900cc Kawasaki Ninja but Ive finally got him round to my way of thinking ha Ha !!!
Rider Profile - Barrie
15/01/2008 by admin.
Welcome,
My name is Barrie Davies I am a little older than Gary. I am married to Julie and we have a typical teenage daughter Carys. We have recently moved into a new house that we have built in the village of Cynheidre in Llanelli.
A working colleague of Gary’s and a keen motorcyclist for nearly 20 years my nominated charity is crossroads and the reason for this is to thank them for the wonderful care given to my 90 year old grandmother and also to my wonderful caring wife who is the Care Manager for Crossroads at the Llanelli Office.
The choice of transport for this journey I blame totally on Gary who I might add has some strange friends, as my preferred mode of transport would be my Kawasaki ZX9R Ninja. How my old bones will hold up to this challenge I don’t know I will probably need the help of Crossroads myself when or If we get home.