Carole Timms
Carole and Dennis's page
Fundraising for County Air Ambulance Trust
Story
udate: 5 August we have just received a cheque for £200 from Honda UK we are sooo very grateful to Steve Martindale for his help !!! this has enabled us to achieve our target thank you Honda!!
Updated on Jul 18th 2010 at 5:09 PM using the JustGiving iPhone app
£5 donated today not anon but my lovely cousin barbara.. Thank you
Updated on Jul 3rd 2010 at 9:25 AM using the JustGiving iPhone app
See 3 July update under read more
Updated on Jun 29th 2010 at 11:44 AM using the JustGiving iPhone app
The £195 annonymous donation is from emptying the tin!! I forgot to add the txt when paying it to the site
Updated on Jun 24th 2010 at 11:41 PM using the JustGiving iPhone app
It's late and I am updating on iPhone!! It's just posted a half typed entry!!
Updated on Jun 24th 2010 at 11:40 PM using the JustGiving iPhone app
Been very difficult to get to use computers as we are arriving late each night! Well we are now in Lowestoft and we have martin Lawton with us taking photos weather has been brilliant all the way we got a little cold and wet riding from Ullapool to golspie due to low cloud. Thankyou to the murrays at kilmahuig barns crinan who not only gavecus half price accomodation but also made a donation! Thankyou to the 2 young men who took pics at top of applecross and donated on line it was gr8 to see you cheer us on thanks lads. Thanks to mike and rhiannon who gave us beds at golspie and lovely food we enjoyed yr company and the walk on the beach!!thanks for the do alias Milovanstrada from mutistrada. net and his friend mike met up with us on the road from Ullapool to john ogroats and took lots of photos. Miles and his lovely wife julie made us very welcome and treated us to dinner at the very famous Carnoustie golf club... Food was excellent and the staff personable and .
Updated on Jun 24th 2010 at 6:35 AM using the JustGiving iPhone app
Yes thankyou Judith I have left dennis's video!!! Applecross posting to home today thanks we wouldn't have known where to look!!! The couple we stayed with in dumfries has had a lucky escape since we left!! Dave was driving in his car and a young guy on a motorbike came at him on wrong side of the road out of. Bend and hit dave head on!! Only saves quick thinking prevent his self from serious injury the motorcyclist was badly injured.
Dennis lives in Kidderminster and has always had a passion for motorcycles. On leaving school Dennis trained as a car and motorcycle mechanic. He has thoroughly enjoyed working with and successfully racing bikes for most of his adult life.
Carole is a nurse who is passionate about her motorcycle and works only to ride her bike! Carole is very keen to promote advanced training and road safety at every opportunity.
Dennis has for many years wanted to ride around the coast of England, Scotland and Wales taking in the most Northerly, Easterly, Southerly and Westerly points of the British mainland.
These days Dennis rides a Honda ANF 125 which is ,reliable, fast and economical. Dennis bought a second ANF 125 so some unsuspecting person could accompany him on the trip!
The 15 June 2010 we start our adventure around the coast of England, Scotland and Wales including the most Northerly, Easterly, Southerly and Westerly points of the British mainland.
The trip will last 16 days and cover approx 3,746 miles
15 June start from Aberystwyth-Crosby nr Liverpool
16 June Crosby-Dumfries
17 June Dumfries-Crinan
18 June Crinan-Kyle
19 June Kyle-Ullapool
20 June Ullapool-Golspie
21 June Golspie-Carnoustie
22 June Carnoustie-Berwick on Tweed
23 June Berwick on Tweed-Hull
24 June Hull-Lowestoft
25 June Lowestoft-Hastings
26 June Hastings-Weymouth
27 June Weymouth-Dartmouth
28 June Dartmouth-Padstow
29 Padstow-Neath
30 Neath-Aberystwyth and home
We are funding the trip ourselves and have been lucky to have kind people offer beds in their homes for the night.
Dennis and I felt we would like to raise money for the Air ambulance trust because we motorcyclists know only too well that the air ambulance can be the difference between life and death when accidents and medical emergencies occur. The Air ambulance trust relies soley on donations from lovely people like yourselves.....your monies will help to keep our angels in the sky so please dig deep and thankyou in anticipation
Carole and Dennis
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Update: 18 May
Today Dennis and I have ridden together for the first time and have survived!! We rode from Kidderminster to Radar where I discovered my number plate had fallen off en route! Quick new one made from cardboard and off to Aberystwyth. No further problems! Lovely sunny day covered 202 miles Dennis reckons we may get 200 mile tank range once the fabricated tanks are insitu, this would be fantastic! Really getting excited about the trip now riding the scooter has made me realise that as long as you are on 2 wheels being propelled forward its great fun you do not need to be riding a big bike!!
Thank you to every body who has donated so far every penny is much appreciated thank you.
Well we have now raised £1157 its certainly very respectable thanks to you all!!! We are absolutely thrilled. We are being photographed on Tuesday by the local press so hope they get our best side!!
Keep it rolling in and a big thank you to all donators every bit is very very much appreciated
7 June big thankyou to Buy Spares who have given us 20% discount off garmin zumo 550 sat nav spares to enable me to put the sat nav on the scooter!! Thank you !!
update 14 June big thank you to The Keyconnection and to Dave for their donation of 2 sets of Weiss panniers these are invaluable for the trip thank you!
14 June Big thank you to Steve Pitt for the fantastic colourful flyers that we have been busy distributing fantastic thanks again
14 June Big thank you to our photographer Martin Leyton who is kindly donating his time and skills riding out to meet and photograph us absoulutely brilliant!!
14 June big thank you to the lovely Mrs Stick and my lovely Mr Timms without them both we would be lost!!! Both have been generous with their time and wonderfully supportive xxx
14 June big thank you to Hotel Victoria in Lowestoft for a great reduction on the tariff this is a great help thank you
14 June well I best go and get my last minute packing done yikes!!!!
roll on tomorrow!!!
19 june saturday 07.20 Hi every one at last use of internet!!! well brilliant adventure so far!!Truly amazing! We set out Tues with a great send off from home thank you to everyone. Sorry I missed you en route to aberystwyth my sat nav sent me on a little detour! Arrived at Crosby at 20.20hrs tired and hot Dennis's boots gave up the ghost and developed holes thank you to Judith for coming to the rescue with the loan of a pair..watch out Eve keep your wardrobe locked from now on!! Michael surprised me and rode to Crosby to greet us what a lovely surprise.
Wednesday we left Crosby and rode to Dumfries arrived at 19.30 another lovely sunny day no problems other than my sat nav sent me a little detour again!! Tracy and Dave looked after us superbly then I reward them by running off with their sat nav thought it was Dennis's and it fitted on his bike!! Thursday saw us start off after Tracy and Daves sausage baps yummy and on the way to Crinan arrived around 20.30 hrs but did stop at Innverary for a meal. Big thank you to Daphne and Michael Murray for the huge reduction in the hire of the barn (Kilmahuig barn Cairnnbarn) and the donation!! Beautiful tranquill spot.
Friday left Crinan for Kyle of Lochalsh taking a short ferry crossing to the most westerly point really was remote missed the ferry en route back the ferry so long way round arrived YHA Ratagan 22.05 had tin of Heinz chicken soup and bed!! Not had chance to log on comuter till this morning have lots of photos but cant upload them at the moment but will asap!! Off to Ullapool toay over applecross sun is shinning should be lovely. Oh bracket broke on Denni's screen probably due to vibration held on by plastic ties now.
so long for now
Saturday 3 July - gave up doing daily update en route as updating from iphone meant one couldn't see what was on the screen due to smallness therefore errors made!
There have been so many wonderful memories of this epic adventure not only all the amazing scenery but all the amazing and generous people we have stayed with and met along the way its people like you that make the world a better place and we are blessed all the more for knowing you!!!
There are people out there who have this narrow minded view that motorcyclists are some sort of under class !! They would be astounded to find how many professional people own motorbikes. We were reminded by landlords, shop keepers, hoteliers YHA staff how polite the motorcycling community are and generous with tips and how they never cause trouble, we were told so many communities especially in Scotland rely on the income we generate and we are behaved because 99% of us never drink and ride my husband and I included.
Dennis and I would like to thank the Chairman Barbara Stubbs from Hull IAM , Mike chairman of Cornwall IAM and Bob and Chris who gave us luxury accomodation in Cornwall. All the Worcestershire IAM ( Michael and I are members) who have donated and supported us. Ron and Brenda from Bakers estate agents Lower Gornal for the welcome champagne and generous donation.
Chadwick Bank garage for their generous donation and tin collection, Motorcycle Mart and staff who have helped with parts and generous donations.
Big thank you to Alec Dorrell motorcycles clencar garage Stourport on Severn for his £100 donation!
Thank you to Rickity rick from the Multistrada community you and your friends made us extremely welcome and thank you for the BBQ
To Coman, Steve, Kirky and Gavin again multistrada community and my husband Michael and our friend Alan for making the Sammy Miller Museum meet it was great to have your support.
To Dennis's friend David from Somerset and his friend Nicholas from Devon who rode with us part of the way thanks a million
To Don and Tina Bashford of Dartmouth big thank you for putting us up even though you were going on holiday next day!!! We were spoilt!!
Miles and Julie in Carnoustie (multistrada community) and their friend Mike (BMW) who put us up in Carnoustie and rode with us to John O'groats. Oh and took us to Carnoustie golf club for dinner no less!!! Big thank you, hope baby does make his/her appearance on my birthady as expected!!
Big thank you to Rhiannon and Mike in Golspie lovely place tranquil you looked after us superbly
Big thank you to Jenine in Neath who was kind enough to put us up even though she was moving house!
Big thank you to my Mummy for feeding every one and accomodating the extra surprise visitor Michael!!
Lastly a massive thank you to my mechanic and friend Mr Dennis Stick for allowing me to experience such an amazing trip, you were a joy to ride with...oh and can you please update your skills re: Ducati as I love my Ducati Multistrada 1100 and I wish you could service it!!!
Oh yes huge thank you to the 2 Honda 125's they were so reliable and comfortable and got us safely round almost 4,000 miles!!!!!
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To Dennis's wife Eve and friend Ann for the wonderful warm welcome home party and Trophies!! They put a lot of time and effort into organising and preparing such a lovely spread thank you very, very much.
We have been so lucky to have Martin Leyton photographing us and riding with us for 4 days the pics are truly amazing!! Thanks a million Martin
I hope I haven't offended any one by missing them out!
14 July update - £10 donation today says Dennis but was given to Dennis by Alan (ANF 125) from Kidderminster thank you Alan!