Modern Vespa

UK Modern Vespa Charity Run



Over the two days of the 10th and 11th of April 2010 the members of Modern Vespa (as well as friends, family members and associates or anyone else with two wheels) are invited to join in a group ride from Margate on the South Coast of England along the coast until we reach Lands End. Aprox 466 miles.

All scooters and motorcylces are welcome: old or new, tradtional or modern, 50cc or 1000cc All we ask is you raise a minimum sposorship for our chosen charity 'HELP FOR HEROES' The minimum sponsorship per rider is £50.00 this entitles any rider to join us along all or part of the route*



If you cannot make this ride with us, then why not sponsor us! Please donate money to this very worthy cause. Every penny donated will go towards 'HELP FOR HEROES' please donate here with Just Giving. If you would like to donate offline thsi can be arranged please contact myself. marc-moore@hotmail.co.uk



Help For Heroes :

Help For Heroes was the idea of Appeal Chairman Bryn Parry and a group of friends and relations, many of who have connections with serving servicemen and women. Bryn and his wife Emma wanted to do something to help the wounded and came up with the idea of a sponsored bike ride. They mentioned it to some friends who mentioned it to some more friends and suddenly Help For Heroes was born and growing fast. A flurry of visits to various offices led to the campaign being blessed by the head of the army, Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt.

Help For Heroes does wonderful work for soldiers and other servicemen and women both directly and through its support of other service charities





TO JOIN IN THIS RIDE PLEASE DONATE £50.00





*Route and accommodation to be decided by those who join us. Please be aware accommodation, fuel and any other costs are incurred by each individual.


http://www.justgiving.com/ModernVespa/



UPDATE 25th September:
Just to keep everyone updated, this is where we are at.

This is a Charity Vespa Ride (although all 2 or 3 wheeled transportation is welcome) in aide of 'Help For Heroes'
The actual ride will be on the 10th and 11th of April 2010.
Day One will be a long slog from Margate to Exeter via a photo op at Tangmere Aviation Museum. 266 Miles aprox.
Link: http://tinylink.com/?b4rveCwkMW

Day Two, will be a more gentle ride to Lands End. Taking in a more scenic route and enjoying the ride.
Link: http://tinylink.com/?P6vI9oJG07 155 Miles

Accomodation. It is upto each individual to pay for and book their accomodation. However if you need advice or room mates, check out this thread. I have booked the TravelLodge in Margate for Friday Night (9th). On the 10th we will be stopping in Exeter overnight. I will no doubt book the Travel Lodge or Premier Inn (they are pretty close). Sunday night at Lands End , it would be nice if everyone could stay at the Lands End Hotel.

Sponsorship. To Join this ride you must raise AT LEAST £50.00 sponsorship for 'Help For Heroes' you can either pay this using the Just Giving site or you can send it to me and I will pay it for you.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to post them here.

Latest info: http://helpforheroessouthcoastvesparide.blogspot.com/



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**** This is the Weekend !!**************************************

lo and behold the sun has come out. It looks like it may be a beautiful weekend (apendages crossed). Since the sun is shining and its good riding weather, I thought I would invite anyone (& everyone) to join us along any part of the route over the weekend.

This is the timetable:
Day one part one:
Leave RAF Manston (CT12 5DF) at 9.00
Arrive Tangmere Aviation Museum (PO202ES) at 1.00
121 Miles
Time to complete 4 Hours
(google & sat nav estimated time 2hrs 35mins)

Day one Part Two:
Leave Tangmere Aviation Museum (PO20 2ES) 2.00
Arrive Travelodge Exeter M5 (EX27HF) 18.30 - 19.00
140 Miles
Time to complete 4 hours 30 minutes
(google & Sat nav estimated times 3 hours)

Day Two Part One:
Leave Exeter Travelodge (EX27HF) 9.00
Arrive Slapton Sands Memorial (sands road devon TQ7) 11.15
45 Miles
Time to Complete 2 hours 15mins
(google & sat nav estimated time 1 hr 15mins)

Day Two Part Two
Leave Slapton Sands Memorial at 12.00
Arrive Lands End 17.30
145 miles
Time to complete 4 hours 30 mins.
(google and sat nav estimated time 4 hours)

Then back to hotel.


I hope to see all or some of you.
(as an added bonus to anyone contemplating joining us, Bill and Genie will be with us at Tangmere. )

What happened to the 11th Marc?
Is that gonna be a day off.

I can be k-nob at times.

I have an idea for a possible military style stop off.

http://www.newhavenfort.org.uk/

The Battle of Britain Memorial (photo opp) is on the B2011 near Folkestone.

The Gosport Ferry doesn't help really. I think the L platers would be better off going north around Portsmouth.

Any ideas on where to stay on the 2 nights?

Bournemouth looks to be about half way.

Where to stay near Lands End?

Are we doing the accomodation off of our own backs?

Is it the plan to stay together?

Questions, questions!

If any one wants to rough it and camp I'll sing campsongs round an open fire any day

on that matter what about overnight in Margate?

I'm thinking I will stay over in Margate on the Friday night as I have to do about 130 miles just to get to the start point.

Coming from W.london I think I would want to stay in Margate the Friday night...

I will be staying in Margate on Friday night too.

Time to find a pub

This might be a good time to look for a travelodge.
May have some cheap rooms.

Margate Travelodge has rooms for £32.00 if you book now.
Think i may book now because the prices will only go up.
If two people share and split the cost i don't think that's too bad.

Me and lil-pepy will probably share (that's if I can twist his arm into coming).

I will book my room at some point in the near future.

Thanks

From Cortez over on the GTS forum;

There is a place just a couple of miles outside of Margate called Manston airport, there is a nice spitfire and military museum there with a good cafe and plenty of space for parking the scoots.

http://www.rafmanston.co.uk/

Could be a good starting point?[/url]

ring them up and ask if we could get the group & scoots around the spitfire, get a banner and good photo.

Here is a link :

http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/H4H_sponsor_forms_hidden.html


Please download these forms for sponsorship. Raise as much as you can but the minimum required is £50.00

Form 1, you can use for individuals, company and business etc.
Form 2, standard list format.

The event website to write on the form is : http://www.justgiving.com/ModernVespa/

Once you have collected your money you can pay it into your bank and then pay on the JustGiving site, write a cheque to H4H* or give it to me for me to pay in.

Just let me know what you are doing so I can keep a track of it.

If anyone wants to make a leaflet or handout of their own they are welcome.

I will be requesting some stuff from h4h nearer the time.

Any questions PM me or email me marc-moore@hotmail.co.uk


Thanks
Marc

Thanks

Yes Pepy,

Excellent starting point. Thats no. 1.

Thanks Cortez,


I will call in advance and see if we can't get a photo op. while we are there.

Marc

It's only a stones throw from Margate Travelodge too. 8)

That's good.

If we get there for say 9.30, we can all meet up, have a chat and a coffee. The place opens at 10.00 maybe we can get in and have a photo op and then we can leave around 11.00.

Towards Dover ? then Folkestone? the New Romney? and Hastings?

2 hrs ish.
link:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=ct12+5df&daddr=dover+to:folkestone+to:new+romney+to:Hastings,+East+Sussex,+United+Kingdom&geocode=%3B%3B%3B%3BFbL9BwMdO7wIACkTUSMzdBDfRzHXzrpgRqYXbQ&hl=en&mra=pe&mrcr=3&sll=51.082286,0.973074&sspn=0.823001,2.463684&ie=UTF8&z=9

Do you know how to do a screen capture?

Wondering if i can post sections of the route from Autoroute?

sent you a PM Pepy. should solve your probs.

I know.......


But in the interest of raising more awareness, I have created a facebook group. Its called : Help For Heroes, South Coast Vespa Ride


If you want to add me you can, just don't stalk me.


Marc

We now also have a blog.

http://helpforheroessouthcoastvesparide.blogspot.com/

Bloody hell Marc, i'm running out of sig space!

yeah I know.

That is kind of the idea of the blog. Just one site which can say it all.

I am working a route around the pics you sent. I will post in a minute for you to see, let me know what you think.

OK. Here goes on a route for day one.

Saturday.
Leave 9.30 Margate Travel Lodge
arrive 9.45 RAF Manston http://www.rafmanston.co.uk/
Leave 11.00
Arrive Dover 11.45
Leave Dover 12.30
Arrive Battle of Britain War Memorial 1.00
Leave 2.00
Arrive Hastings via New Romney 3.30
Leave 4.15
Arrive New Forest 7.00 ish. (camping or b&B etc)

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=CT10+2BF&daddr=raf+manston+to:dover+to:Westfield,+War+Memorial+to:new+romney+to:hastings+to:new+forest&geocode=%3B%3B%3BFSTLCAMdKMAIAA%3B%3B%3B&hl=en&mra=ls&dirflg=h&sll=51.106971,0.98053&sspn=0.822571,2.463684&ie=UTF8&z=8


And Day 2

Sunday
Leave 9.00 New Forest
arrive 10.30 Bovington Tank Museum http://www.tankmuseum.org/
Leave 12.00
Arrive Exeter 2.00
Leave Exeter 2.30
Arrive St Austell 4.00
Leave St Austell 4.30
Arrive Lands End 6.00

Arrive Pub.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=new+forest&daddr=Bovington+,++%3Cspan+property%3D%22v:postal-code%22%3EBH20+6JG%3C%2Fspan%3E+to:exeter+to:st+austell+to:lands+end+cornwall&geocode=%3BFeSLBQMdl8Td_yFbz3kbt4UHOw%3B%3B%3B&hl=en&mra=ls&dirflg=h&sll=50.61394,-3.215015&sspn=1.662596,4.927368&ie=UTF8&ll=50.481978,-3.669434&spn=1.667279,4.927368&z=8


Any thoughts?

Did you allow for petrol stops in your route?

I usually refuel after 80/90 miles to be on the safe side.

I think I have allowed enough time. I have over estimated the time for each leg of the journey to allow for fuel stops. The only exception and the longest leg is the final leg of day one, this is the only part of the journey which coud take alot longer than expected, could be 4 - 5 hours with fuel stops.

feel free to change it, as my brain is fried. Too much work and not enought sleep.

Plenty of time to iron out the finer details mate.

As long as everyone knows the route it shouldn't be a problem.

Will you be using a sat nav?

I've got a tomtom Rider v1 that i will be using.

I will be following you then.

I will have satnav come next year, TomTom rider is in the plans for around christmas time.

Check this program out.

http://www.janboersma.nl/gett/index.php

That's an interesting program. I likey.

I've just pulled in my first £50 sponsorship....just for putting a sticker on my windscreen. 8)

Marc

I think there are too many stops at the beginning mate.

Saturday.
Leave 9.30 Margate Travel Lodge
arrive 9.45 RAF Manston http://www.rafmanston.co.uk/
Leave 11.00
ABOUT 25 MILES TO;
Arrive Battle of Britain War Memorial 1.00
Leave 2.00
ABOUT 50 MILES TO;
Arrive Newhaven Fort
Leave 4.15
ABOUT 75 MILES TO;
Arrive New Forest 7.00 ish. (camping or b&B etc)
ABOUT 35 MILES TO;
Bovington Camp area

This is only 185 of the 466 miles on the first day mate.

tomtom tyre has it at 219 miles.

Excellent news on sponsorship , Well done!! (I hope the sticker isn't too embarrasing )

I agree the schedule, for the first day is all messed up. We need to reduce the number of stops.

Nah, it's ok.

http://www.reco.co.uk/

I work for RECO, the logo is the blue and yellow logo at the top left hand corner of our web page.

Bit of luck it could have been worse! I am going to sponsor £50.00 from my company, I will also get my brother to do the same.

I've got a second job in the Events Industry and have asked there too.
Boss is on holiday at the moment so no news yet.
Oh, and i haven't started twisting the arms of family and friends yet!

Plenty of time yet. Lets hope its just not me and you riding round the UK on our own!


(if it is we can ride like nutters to Lands End and spend the rest of the time in the pub)

I was just thinking the same thing!

I remember Reading something by jimc saying that he recons an average of 40mph is the best you can hope for (please feel free to correct if I have mis-quoted jim :s ). I think planning plenty if breaks is a good idea, if they double up as petrol stops, bonus.

Remember comfort breaks

and don't forget that it'll probably be pissing rain which may reduce our average speed even more.

alex and i are just about to do hackney to st austell on B-roads and unclassifieds with loads of photo stops, picnic stops, and visits (to attractions like Buckfast Abbey, Carnglaze Caverns, and Rabid Monkey World) planned along the way. two days down, two days there, two days back the 'pootlers tour'