SportsMaserati.com Ride 4 Ryan

[Andyk]

This is amazing Matt.....I feel proud to be part of this forum and the generosity of everyone is just amazing......

 

[conaero]

Indeed Andy, myself, Urby and the Dover family are blown away by the generous donations of some 40 members on here. There are still many who have not given and I accept them may be being put off by the large donations that are coming in but please, those 10's and 20 quids do all add up so please, everything helps.

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[conaero]

A massive thank you to:

FCZ360

Frank has made a very generous donation to the cause and helped us to nearly break the £12k / 60% barrier....any of you kind souls out there care to help us over it?

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[conaero]

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[BennyD]

Just found out that my company, THOMAS COOK, has donated £1000 to the cause. They don't normally donate to research but they've made an exception as it's in memory of Ryan. It's nice to see that multi-national companies don't always forget the personal touch. We are getting there!

 

[StuartW]

Good for them, excellent work all round everyone!

 

[conaero]

Another donation, many thanks to:

GOONER

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[conaero]

And a massive thank you to:

THOMAS COOK



for their very generous donation.

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[conaero]

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[conaero]

Morning everyone. I have a bit of bad news that affects the cycle.

Urbys 95 year old dad is unfortunately gravely ill and thus Urby may no make the cycle. Drewf had kindly offered to cycle part of the route with me, but he has to be in Dijon right in the middle of it.

Can I ask, if any keen SM cyclists fancy taking over from Urby, for all or part of the tour, can you pm me your number to discuss. Thanks.

The event starts in North London on Sunday 27th September and we return back to the UK 2 weeks later on the weekend of 10th/11th October.

This is a self funded event so you will be responsible for your hotels and food but the ferry and return leg is already sorted so that will be included.

Obviously, an event of this duration (circa 900 miles in 12 days) you will need to be a serious cyclist with a bike capable of making the trip.

 

[hoyin]

Oh no that is bad news. I would be so up for doing it! But .... My baby is due in those two weeks! :-( lame excuse I know.

 

[StuartW]

I'm very sorry to hear that Urby, I hope for better news for your father.

Unfortunately I'm a terrible cyclist but I hope this can all work itself it out.

Best wishes

 

[Contigo]

Sorry to hear that, I'd be well up for it but certainly can't get time off work because I've already used up my holiday! Mainly on Forum events

 

[D Walker]

How sad!

Unfortunately I am doing Scottish road trip (NC 500) the week before and cant really take 3 weeks off.

 

[GeoffCapes]

I'd love to be able to do it, however, I don't have the stamina, nor anywhere near it yet, my longest ride is 37 miles! and just don't have the time to take off of work.
The bike is more than capable though!

Hopefully someone will be able to step in or people will be able to do a relay across the route.

 

[daverichardson]

really bad news
sympathy

 

[drewf]

Morning everyone. I have a bit of bad news that affects the cycle.

Urbys 95 year old dad is unfortunately gravely ill and thus Urby may no make the cycle. Drewf had kindly offered to cycle part of the route with me, but he has to be in Dijon right in the middle of it.

Can I ask, if any keen SM cyclists fancy taking over from Urby, for all or part of the tour, can you please call me to discuss:

The event starts in North London on Sunday 27th September and we return back to the UK 2 weeks later on the weekend of 10th/11th October.

This is a self funded event so you will be responsible for your hotels and food but the ferry and return leg is already sorted so that will be included.

Obviously, an event of this duration (circa 900 miles in 12 days) you will need to be a serious cyclist with a bike capable of making the trip.

Matt has just phoned, and we have a plan. Since I no longer need to be in Dijon for the F2 race weekend, (or rather, I'd like to be but it's not going to happen this year), I can cover the ride if necessary. Matt is now worrying about being able to sustain 25mph all day, but he'll get used to it

Obviously, we all hope that Urby's father pulls through and will be fit and stable to allow Urby to complete the ride as planned.

Matt, you might want to remove your mobile number from your earlier post, as it's a pain when Bots trawl the site and harvest it for the spam-callers...

 

[BennyD]

Thanks Drew, you are a potential star! I removed Matts number as you suggested.

 

[conaero]

Thanks all, we have a plan and the ride will go ahead a planned.

 

[Ambient69]

Sadly my training on the not so sober tour of Touquet with Fat Maf on the back for the outward leg on the wobbly hotel courtesy bike was not enough training for me to be a suitable volunteer.

The return stint was even harder since I had got to the point where I had even forgot I had locked the bike up in the centre of Touquet, and then trying to find the hotel, when it was a struggle for the peleton to find the restaurant earlier on in the evening.

Will be starting on the Turbo Trainer this week, trying to improve fitness & physique. Good Luck Matt & Drew - a top up on its way.