‘12 in 6’ is a ride through twelve countries in six days by three friends on motorcycles. It’s a sponsored event aiming to raise money for the Riders for Health charity. The target is to raise £20,000 to go towards the building of a much needed workshop in Harare, Zimbabwe.
The ride is planned to start on the second week in June 2009 and will go through the following countries: France; Belgium; Luxembourg; Germany, Switzerland; Italy; Austria; Slovakia; Hungary; Slavonia; Czech Republic and finally the UK. The total distance of the route amounts to approximately 2,700 miles, which has been carefully planned and all overnight stops will be pre booked. The highlights of the ride will be the Alpine passes in Italy & Switzerland and a few laps of the famous Nürburgring in Germany.
The three riders, John Hale (South London); Andy Thomas (Surrey) and Derek Russell (South London) are all very experienced ‘life long’ motorcyclists with over 80 years of bike riding experience between them. All have completed some European touring before, however, nothing nearly as adventurous as this.
The bikes are being supplied by local dealers; Two KTMs from Inmoto and a Ducati from Moto Rapido. There are a number of other sponsors on board for the other pieces of kit and hardware. Everything else which is needed for this challenge is either being donated or self funded so 100% of money raise goes to the Riders for Health charity.
To launch, there is a ‘Kick Off’ event for sponsors, journalists and supporters in Westminster on Monday 2nd February, where Riders for Health will also be giving a brief about their work as a charity.
The ‘12 in 6’ website (www.12in6.org ) has full information on the ride, a link to the donations site as well as an up-to-date news page for all the latest news so everybody can keep track of the progress of this project. Even during the ride, people can keep an eye on the riders as there will be a link to a ‘real time’ map showing their GPS position, updated every two minutes! Needless to say, their wives are quite happy about this...
Riders for Health is a registered UK charity that has been providing transport infrastructure and motorcycles to health workers in Africa for over 20 years. www.riders.org
For more information please see:
www.12in6.org
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