Cancer Society Ride Relay Saturday 3 March 2012

[iYRe]

If the Westpac ride is on the same day, it will be done and dusted by the time we arrive in Auckland.

sweet.. true.. problem is getting a day pass :P I'll have to ride to somewhere to meet up, so double the riding time.. heh..

dogsnbikes:
I think we have to get at the stadium by about 4pm, is that right Maha?

[Mom]

Is there a dealine we have too be in Auckland by?????

No not at all. We will be walking from about 3pm at the North Shore Venue, the event runs until the next morning so it matters not what time the ride arrives. You guys can stop in and give us some moral support if you like or what ever, which ever. We are away now until the end of the month. Everything will get tightened up once we get back.

Stay safe you lot.

[dogsnbikes]

No not at all. We will be walking from about 3pm at the North Shore Venue, the event runs until the next morning so it matters not what time the ride arrives. You guys can stop in and give us some moral support if you like or what ever, which ever. We are away now until the end of the month. Everything will get tightened up once we get back.

Stay safe you lot.

Sweet we can take the senic route then

[martybabe]

There are lots of reasons I signed up for this ride, primarily, Tony is a top man and doesn't deserve this shit. His ride to this point in his life has been hard enough without even more intrusion from this bastard indiscriminate disease. Secondly, I lost my Mom to cancer and sadly and rather poignantly I lost a beautiful young girlfriend of mine to Breast cancer.

I say poignantly because since signing up for 'Tony's' ride, coincidently, the spectre of shit has pointed it's finger once more in the direction of my loved ones. As I write, the Bride and I are awaiting results from her biopsy, urgently requested by the breast screening clinic.

It's a worrying time for sure and unfortunately a common experience for lots of Families across the world every day. I think what I'm trying to say is that I have even more reason (if I didn't have enough already) to throw my heart and sole into this venture, the sooner we stamp out this horrid wrecker of lives and families the better.

I don't profess to be half the Man Tony is, I can't muster the same selflessness and positivity that he relays with his every word. He is inspirational, I'm an ordinary man with ordinary feelings an slightly out of control emotions.

Even if you don't make it to Auckland Tony, I hope you get some comfort from the outpouring of care, love and effort from all these good people, riding and running in your name and for the sake of other sufferers.

If genuine human kindness and compassion were a weapon we'd have blasted this evil cowardly disease to hell for ya mate. Kia kaha my freind.

[OCD Legend]

On the subject of songs I will post these lyrics up, written for you Tony and I will record it for you, sounds better than it looks haha.

It actually sounds good, Matt is a talented songwriter/singer (shit now he's gonna be even more big-headed)

[The Singing Chef]

It actually sounds good, Matt is a talented songwriter/singer (shit now he's gonna be even more big-headed)

Thank you, wait what, I can get even more big headed than I am?

Guess I don't need that pump anymore then

[OCD Legend]

Thank you, wait what, I can get even more big headed than I am?

Guess I don't need that pump anymore then

just you wait

[The Singing Chef]

just you wait

I take that red rep as meaning I am no longer your adopted son... Thanks ex-Mum

[iYRe]

if you ever need a bass player..

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http://www.facebook.com/v/47661233612 - this was me back in the 90's. I turned up on this:


We got yelled at for filming at karekare, because Crowded House were filming there the next day and had paid some huge fee to have the rights to do it.. bummer for them because we didnt pay and had finished by the time they got their (the park ranger that is).
Bummer about the sync issues..

[Paul in NZ]

RIGHT!!!!! Holidays are over and time to get busy (ish)

Times marching on and thus far my whole summer has been spent sitting around on my arse drinking, eating, fishing, farting, picking my nose (and eating it) and generally NOT doing much about a baton... or even two batons. That made me feel uncomfortably uncomfortable and most upsettingly there was no one around me to blame - life can be so unfair!

I did do some thinking about it though and ratted through the scrap bin, the local hardware store and even sent an email to steel and tube (fuckin useless, never bothered to reply, why even have a 'contact us' button). ANYWAY - Every 'design' I came up with ended up as some kind of epically over engineered watertight club suitable for gang fights, whacking Orc's or anchoring a small schooner and was never going to be easy to carry on a motorcycle.

So I had another think (ie I sat around and drank a bit more) and thought a mighty thought.... (Fibre helps) Since this isnt a running race and I have NO intention of handing the 'baton' on while moving, twirling it while leading a parade or conducting an orchestra - then surely there is no need for it to look like an actual 'baton' is there??? I mean why make life difficult by conforming to traditional thinking, refusing to be oppressed mentally by the virtual baton I let my thoughts range far and wide and then...... What I'm thinking is more a weatherproof bag / satchel thingy containing a map of the north island. Each baton holder draws in the route they are taking and writes in their name / bike / date / time plus any messages etc. Other riders can also add messages etc. Hopefully by the time the two maps get to Auckland they will be graffiti'd to - erm - richly inscribed as a lasting memorial to mankinds decency or some such... (cough)

What do you think? (and I've already got the maps)

[dogsnbikes]

. What I'm thinking is more a weatherproof bag / satchel thingy containing a map of the north island. Each baton holder draws in the route they are taking and writes in their name / bike / date / time plus any messages etc. Other riders can also add messages etc. Hopefully by the time the two maps get to Auckland they will be graffiti'd to - erm - richly inscribed as a lasting memorial to mankinds decency or some such... (cough)

What do you think? (and I've already got the maps)

Like a Dry bag like this



They Katmandu one's and could easliy be written on as well



Oh asked at Mechanical and they pretty swamped under at the moment

[Paul in NZ]

Nah - more a pouch type thingy I use on the kayak for me cell phone.... But kathmandu is a good idea...

[Rehab]

What do you think? (and I've already got the maps)

Sounds like a grand idea to me. Will the maps be laminated so they last and don't require too much patience to fold up (or worse, incur the wrath of someone anal about such things that expects it to be folded exactly the same every time? i.e. me)

[Paul in NZ]

Sounds like a grand idea to me. Will the maps be laminated so they last and don't require too much patience to fold up (or worse, incur the wrath of someone anal about such things that expects it to be folded exactly the same every time? i.e. me)

Yeah well it was laminating the maps that got me into the mess I was in. Once they are laminated they can only be rolled. If you roll them up they spring back out making them a real pia to remove from a tube PLUS the tube has to be as long as the short edge of the map and you end up with a very cumbersome object. Another issue is that you need a very special pen to write on a laminated plastic surface or it all smudges off

This means its a traditional map - sorry

[Rehab]

This means its a traditional map - sorry

For good reason by the sound of things!