Second Radio Interview in a week

On Monday Kev had a brief radio interview on the Roberto Perrone show on BBC 3 counties and on Saturday Jon featured on the Gaz Wesley show.

Both shows are still available on i-player. Kev's is 1hour 42minutes in, Jon's is 1 hour 9 minutes in.

All good publicity!

Two weeks to go

Two weeks tomorrow until departure.

We managed to get a plug on BBC 3 Counties Radio on Monday night, and Jon is doing a live interview with them at 10am Saturday morning. They are also interested in doing a remote broadcast from Toddington on the 11th.  All good publicity.

My bike went in to DBC Dunstable today for some last minute bits; new front brake pads, new flexible front indicators fitted and side switch diabled. The battery proved to be a bit dodgy so that was replaced as well.  Thanks again to Martin and Steve at DBC for their continued support, we really do appreciate it.

The Sidi Adventurer boots that Jon and myself recently got (again from DBC) were featured in a review in the Adventure Bike Rider magazine this week and got 10/10. Jason is hoping he might get a pair as an early Christmas present.

Jason is having an Autocom system fitted to his bike this week.

We're hoping to get together next week with all the kit to make sure we've got everything we need.

Kev

Website Update

With just under 3 weeks to go we have made some changes to the website. In addition to the Twitter feed we have added;- a feed from the blog, a "Where on Earth are we?" map to show our followers exactly where we are and a feed from our Just Giving page showing our current fund raising total.

We have so far raised £2300 for the L&D NICU appeal.  You can now donate using your mobile simply Text ACMH98 £1 to 70070.

Chris Scott's Darien Jacket Rides Again!

During a fit of madness at the Ted Simon Foundation launch two weeks again I found myself bidding on and winning (for an undisclosed sum!) the Aerostich Darien jacket worn by Chris Scott in the Desert Riders video.

How cool, I thought, to wear this on our trip and take it back out to the Sahara.  Unfortunately, the jacket didn't have the original protective armour in and as I know from experience it hurts bad enough if you come off with it let alone without. After an email to the company in the States they have come up trumps and a set of there TF pads should be wining there way to me across the Atlantic.

Thanks Aerostich, really appreciated and it will be fantastic to be able to use the jacket.

Kev and Jon have now got heavier duty sump guards, and we're sourcing the final parts and bits of kit.

Less than 4 weeks to go!!!!!!

5 Weeks on Friday!

After a manic summer, we managed to sort a meet up of the three of us on Monday. We've booked the ferry from Portsmouth to Caen which some how all makes it seem a bit more real.  We've identified the last remaining bits of kit that need to be aquired.

Put the road tyres back on today and Jon and Kev paid a visit to the Oddfellows in Toddington.  Just to confirm that the pub is definately hosting a beer festival the weekend of our departure................typical we won't be there to appreciated it!

Tomorrow I'm representing us at the Ted Simon Foundation launch at the Coventry Motor Museum.

The pace will certainly pick up over the next few weeks and I'm sure the next 36 days will go by in no time at all......don't blink.

Kev