ParliamentEnduro.com

[Admin]

Derek Redmond, Simon Woodroffe and Marek Kriwald will be riding 200cc Enduro motor bikes across 1700km of South Africa. Our team will be part of a bigger group with a common goal of raising large amounts of money for Riders for Health.

Please visit our web site for a full explanation http://www.parliamentenduro.com

If you can make a donation, that would be fantastic. If you have given all you can this year, please just pass on the link to someone you know who may be interested.

Other links:-
Derek Redmond - http://www.derekredmond.com
Simon Woodroffe - http://www.yocompany.biz

[Zannah]

Good Luck Derek, Simon and Marek!

[pa]

Sounds like a great trip and really worthwhile cause. When is this happening?

[Tia]

Pat, I think the Enduro Africa is run in November.

1700km on a trail bike sounds quite challenging. I'm curious how Marek and team have been training for this contingency: "Apparently Rhino find motor cyclists to be particularly good targets to charge at."

[suze0ih]

Well to sneak up on a rhino you must keep always keep upwind... that's not going to help is it?

[pa]

Thanks Tia. I too would be interested to hear about the training regime, if any, Gadmin. Not an awful lot of rhinos in Bournemouth. I've seen the odd Llama. I wonder if that would do.

[Admin]

The training is intensive and dangerous. Rhino have been difficult to find in Bournemouth, however we have similar, but perhaps greater dangers that are unique to the area.

Very elderly tourists who have abandoned their rented beach huts, due to the excessive rain, take to the roads in their large Volvos. They are an extreme and unpredictable menace.

We head off on 26th October, so training is moving into full swing now. We purchased a couple of cheap enduro motorbikes and found a great disused gravel pit near the New Forest. None of us have ridden off road before so it is taking a lot of getting used to. It feels like riding with flat tyres on very bumpy roads.

Derek came down to Bournemouth this weekend and found the little enduro bikes to be a huge contrast to his Kawasaki 750 track bike, but he adapted to it very quickly. Simon came down a little while ago and proved to be particularly courageous, pointing out what seemed to be almost impossible gradients for a novice rider and then launching himself at them.

I think we will be good enough for the task.

Thanks for your interest and please direct as many people as you can to http://www.parliamentenduro.com and particularly the "Make a Pledge" page.

[pa]

It sounds just like the sort of dangerous activity which might appeal to our sponsor. Have you put it to him?

Next time I'm out walking in The Forest I shall make my way towards the noise.

Try not to alienate the oldies too much, though I do know what you mean. We had a chap accelerate his car up a six inch kerb and into a shop front last year whilst trying to park. Cross the road between occupied parked cars at your peril.

[tjd]

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What cause is this in aid of, Admin?

Why are you in this Admin? For the thrill of it and the exciting time you are about to have or are you in it to help others??? And if it is the latter, why do you have to break your neck to get others to support a charity?

[AJ]

[:(] tjd - read the website.

Good luck Marek, Derek and Simon.

One of our pub regulars did a trip with similar aims to Gambia in December 2005/January 2006 on a Honda C90. Along with six other blokes, one woman + back up crew and van, they travelled on the 'pizza delivery bikes' to deliver the scooters and £200,000 worth of medical supplies to a remote hospital. The group had met on an internet forum(!) for BMW GS owners (nicknamed the Geezers) so the scooters were a bit of a culture shock. The C90's were donated to the hospital, a school and the local ranger service. The book about the trip is very entertaining and informative and has raised more funds for the various projects.

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[suze0ih]

Yes, thanks for the update and good luck Admin.

[Zannah]

About a hundred years ago, when Mary Breckenridge was starting the Frontier Nursing services in eastern KY, it was very difficult for midwives to walk/hike to the remote farmsteads and up into the 'hollers' to get to births or attend the dead, so whole communities would donate horses to assist the ladies in their travels. Later, Henry Ford supplied the midwives with cars.

There was a website posted here some years ago where I bought a bicycle for a midwife in Africa. Does anyone remember? You could buy goats and yaks for villages as well.

Again, good luck Parliament Enduro!