Finally!

well for now it's the end of the Hogblog.... read our ride diary on our main site www.mildhogs.co.uk

Land's end update

Well.... finally this morning we reached our target of land's end where we met up with Geoff another member.. nice surprise!! so far we have done 1700 miles.. we are all well, 3 of us left.
We have been doing most of the mileage in the morning to have easy afternoons.. arriving at our camps at tea time.
We have got loads of photo's and we will be uploading them when we get back as well as a day by day diary.
Posting to the hogblog has been difficult because of internet phone probs.
We will be back on monday!

Lands end

just a quick update while the phone is in a good mood. We will be at lands end this morning.

Update

For all watching.. Everything is going to plan. Due to phone probs havent been able to post. Full write up when we get back

Stop one complete

We arrived at edinburgh safely. We had a nice pub lunch in shap.fantastic ride up the A6,A7. 250 Miles down.staying for free tonight with kind thanks to lothian bridge caravan park. Early start tomorrow.

Pirelli's & How to Follow

Thanks to our sponsor's Pirelli for the tyres for the journey. The Pirelli tyres are now all the bikes.. this week has given us a chance of running them in a little. We are all organized, final packing will be in the morning. Early night and early rise I think.
We can access our HogBlog enroute, every evening we will be updating the blog with the days adventures. The best way to stay updated is to follow us.. to do this click the follow button in the coloumb on the right.

Here's where we will be and when...

Day 1 (August 1st 2009)Leaving Claire House Children's Hospice at 9am. Riding to Edinburgh for our first night. No campsite arranged here.Day 2 (August 2nd 2009)Edinburgh to Loch Ness. Staying at Loch Ness No campsite arranged here.Day 3 (August 3rd 2009)Loch Ness to John O Groats to Brora. Staying at Brora. No campsite arranged here.Day 4 (August 4th 2009)Brora to Edinburgh Staying at Edinburgh. No campsite arranged here.Day 5 (August 5th 2009)Edinburgh to Brandesburton. Camping at Greengrass park campsite.Day 6 (August 6th 2009)Brandesburton to Tewkesbury. Camping at Lower Lodge campsite.Day 7 (August 7th 2009)Tewkesbury to St Austell. Staying at Innis Inn campsite.Day 8 (August 8th 2009)St Austell to Land's End to Bideford. Campsite arranged.Day 9 (August 9th 2009)Bideford to Pandy. staying at Cordelia Passmore campsite.Day 10 (August 10th 2009)Pandy to Claire House.

The first leg - all welcome.

We will be leaving Claire House, Clatterbridge Hospital at 9am on Saturday August 1st.

We will be riding up to Preston for a quick stop, anybody wishing to ride a few miles with us, or wanting to wave us off is more than welcome to join us for the first leg.

We are going to try and chart our journey on this Blog. We will state our route and camp also.

Getting ready.

Well, it's now less than a week to go for our 1800 mile charity ride.. we've all been checking our bikes are going to be up for the challenge.

All the tyres from Pirelli are now fitted and have been perfectly balanced.

We have been running the new tyres in this week too.

we've all worked hard this week to minimize any problems once we hit the road.

We have the facilities now to update our hog blog daily during our ride, we will do this every evening.

All that's left to do now is pack!

More pictures are in our gallery

More auction items added!

Well, more auction items have been added, after the 'non-sale' of the signed liverpool top, we are pleased to say it has a good bid on it at the moment.. along with a few other items... see the lot here http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/postmaster2004uk_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_ipgZ

R&G Racing Cozy Wraps up for auction

Donated by demon tweeks... up for grabs in our auction... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320394525056

Beatles Complete Guitar Edition Book.

Up for grabs is this complete beatles music book, it's the guitar edition.. a must for any musicians collection! click here to bid http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320394151513

Longway down book up for grabs

Place your bids on this excellent book! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320394023110

Charity night success!

The 3rd of July seen our first ever charity night. Full of laughs, games and great music.

The night raised £530!

Ricky Tomlinson signed book auction!!

Up for auction is Ricky Tomlinsons 'cheers my arse' book. Signed inside by the man himself. A must for fans... make a bid in our charity auction...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320391505702

Boxing legends up for auction!!

Boxing legends Signed Framed Picture.

Kindly donated by Tony Ravel.

Up for auction right here... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320391462392

Sammy Lee Shirt Now Up For Auction!

The Sammy Lee shirt is now up for auction!

Follow it's progress here...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320390484494&viewitem=&salenotsupported

Thanks To Local Companies

Thank's to local Hair Salon companies for donating services for our charity night.

Bev'sHair & Beauty, Breck Rd, Liverpool

Scissor Smiths, Breck Rd, Liverpool

Talk N' Heads, Breck Rd, Liverpool

Thanks to Pontins

Some lucky family at our charity night will be going home with a free holiday courtesy of Pontins!

Sammy Lee Signed Shirt.

A Big Thankyou to Sammy Lee for his football top and again for signing it!

The top will be auctioned off on ebay at some point... watch this space to see how much it raised!

Thanks Bendicks

Thankyou to Bendicks for their Donation of Bendicks Luxury Biscuits for our charity night raffles.

H.E.B.S

We raised £297.10 at the H.E.B.S show.

Thanks to all who entered the raffle!

All money has been donated to Claire House through our Just Giving account.

Giveaway Goodies

Thankyou to Ingersol Rand (Kryptonite Locks) for sending a load of reflector bands, wrist bands and tons of stickers to give away at the warwickshire show.

Ricky Tomlinson.

Ricky Tomlinson Signed book has been added to our charity night raffle... Thanks Ricky!

Tickets Now on Sale £4. More Details HERE

The Red Squirrel Trail Race for Claire House.

The Red Squirrel Trail Race
Sunday May 17th 2009
Lifeboat Road, Formby

Meet Ewan, A Mildhog rider doing the trail race on sunday 17th (10KM), then climbing Snowden on thursday 21st may, all in the name of charity

Please sponsor him using the just giving widget on this page.

All money donated going to Claire House.

What is the Red Squirrel Trail Race?

The Red Squirrel Trail Race and Fun Run take place in the dunes and forests of the Formby coastline on May 17th 2009. The event is limited to 300 competitors and entries are only available on the day if the event is not full. The distance of the trail race will be approximately 5.5 miles and will predominantly take place on tracks and footpaths through sand dunes and pine woods, trail shoes are recommended but road shoes will be suitable for experienced runners. The fun run follows a shorter 2 miles route and will be ideal for young children as an introduction to trail racing, both events will start at 9.30am.

The Complete Prize List

All the prizes donated have been split between all of our raffles/prize draws.
For a complete list of all prizes before the split click here

Duke Marketing Ltd Offer

With the compliments of Peter Duke (MD) 2 raffle prizes -

The Complete Purple Helmets 2 DVD Set & On-Bike TT Experience 2 DVD Set. They wish us a safe & fun journey! Thanks Duke.

Book from Haynes

Thanks to Haynes for the Classic Scootering book.

We have added it to our Warwickshire Hert of England Bike Show raffle.

Delivery from Kriega

Kriega R20 backpack arrived. Thanks Kriega we've added it to our prize list!!

Claire House Visit

Today, we visited Claire House. They held an open day and we took the opportunity to see first hand the great work all the staff do at the hospice. It is a fantastic place, fantastic people & a fantastic cause. We hope we raise as much as we can from our 3 events. we would like to raise at least £1000 for each year of the hospices birthday, currently celebrating it's tenth.

(From left to right. John, Fred, Paul, Brian, Joanne, Me(Paul), Denny.)

Offer from Haynes

Haynes are adding a book to our prize draw list.... will let you know more when it arrives.

Offer from Kriega

For our prize draw & awaiting delivery... It's an R20 Rucksack.. nice one at that!!

Blackpool Promotion

We promoted our charity activities at the Blackpool Ridesafe Show with advertising posters on our bikes.

Thanks to EBC Brakes

Thanks to EBC brakes for their donation to our prize list!

Thanks to Wurth

For sending lots of products... full list available on our website here.. http://www.mildhogs.co.uk/big_prize_draw.html

New Prizes Offered

Scottoiler have made an offer of one of their new v-systems.

New Prizes Offered

More prizes for our raffles to be added ,
Companies in Chester & Southport & Aintree make offers... details soon.

Pirelli

Pirelli Flags arrive for the warickshire show

Press - We make the local news

We featured in todays Liverpool Echo..

Page 24.

Click the Echo image to enlarge story!

Fibre-Lyte !!

A big thankyou to Martin Hansell for the kind donation of carbon fibre tax disc holders for our prize draw & Warickshire show draw.

http://www.fibre-lyte.co.uk/

Thankyou to K&N

Thankyou to K&N, one lucky winner of the prize draw will recieve a K&N Filter for their bike!!

Press

The local press have been informed of all 3 events.

New Arrivals..

All the tyres from Pirelli have now arrived. Our bikes will have new shoes for our charity ride.

Andy Abraham

Thankyou to Andy Abraham & management for their kind offer of show tickets. This will raise some funds for our cause. Andy is currently on tour. http://en.andyabraham.co.uk/andyabraham

Kryptonite Locks

A big thankyou to Ingersol Rand - the company that do the Kryptonite locks... they have sent us 3 top quality locks for our prize lists, these are to be split between all 3 events! The big prize draw, charity night draw and the warickshire bike show.

Delivery coming!!

Expecting a delivery today... more prizes to be added I think!

wirral egg run!

Getting ready for the wirral egg run, our big chance to sell some of these raffle tickets for the prizes we have accumulated.

All our prize draws explained....

Purchased a raffle ticket? Need the prize info?

For the Big prize Draw Click Here

For the Charity Night Draw Click Here

For the Hert of England Bike Show Draw Click Here

Charity Night Tickets

These will be available from Monday 30th march... reserve at 07796647443.
Flyer HERE

Thankyou Pirelli!

A big thankyou to Pirelli for sponsoring our bikes with some nice new much needed tyres!

Tickets are ready!!

Just spoke to the printers, the 3000 tickets for the charity draw are ready and will be dropped off on friday. The licence cheque has also cleared - clearly good news. Here's hoping we get it by the weekend.. just in time for the egg run!

New Prizes Added

Many thanks to Demon Tweeks for donating a R&G neck warmer & Helmet Bag. As well as a multitool. Our prizes are mounting up! full list here... http://www.mildhogs.co.uk/prizes.html

What we are doing it for!

Here are Claire House's funding costs.
Whatever we can raise will help somewhere!
Just to put our fundraising efforts into context:
£2,500 will fund a nurse and their costs for one month
£1,750 will provide for the physiotherapy needs of the children each month
£1,500 will give 24 hour medical cover for one month
£550 will provide family and bereavement support each week
£400 will fund our pharmacy and sundry expenses
£110 will cover the daily cost of meal times for the children and their families
£90 will keep our vehicles on the road for one week
£60 will fund play activities for the children and their siblings daily
£30 will fund our hydrotherapy pool for one day

The Route

The route is confirmed as the following:

Start - Liverpool

Day 1 Liverpool to Lanark Via Sedburgh , Staying in Lanark.

Day 2 Lanark to Inverness Via Loch Ness, Staying in Inverness.

Day 3 Inverness to Kildary Via John o' groats, Staying at Kildary.

Day 4 Kildary to Fala, Staying in Fala.

Day 5 Fala to Brandesburton via Scarborough, Staying in Brandesburton.

Day 6 Brandesburton to Tewkesbury via Buxton, Staying in Tewkesbury.

Day 7 Tewskesbury to St Austell Via Taunton, Staying in St Austell.

Day 8 St Austell to Bideford Via Lands End, Staying in Bideford.

Day 9 Bideford to Pandy Via Minehead, Staying in Pandy.

Day 10 Pandy to Liverpool Via Shrewsbury, Finish.

Charity Night

As a way of raising more funds for our cause, we are having a charity night where we can raffle off some of the prizes we have accumulated! We have a DJ, Disco, Singer and much more going on. Ticket prices are a reasonable £4. All money raised is going to Claire House Children's Hospice. This event will take place at Norris Green Conservatve Club, Friday July 3rd 2009, 7:00pm!

For ticket details click here. Stay tuned for more details.

Supporters & Sponsors

Thanks to all the following companies for their generosity! They have either donated a prize for raffling or are supporting the riders in some way! Demon Tweeks, The Bowl-Bromborough, Sainsburys-Birkenhead, Yamaha, Pirelli, Chester Zoo, Knowsley Safari Park, NGK, Tranmere Rovers FC, The Hogfather, Bendicks, Mcdonalds, Farmfoods, GetGeared, Lidl, Michelin, Carol Nash Show, TMC Rider Training-Bromborough, SRT Motorcycles-Birkenhead, R&M Motorcycles-Birkenhead, Mike Hose Motorcycles-Wallasey, Seabank Motorcycles-New Brighton

Our charity events this year...

Our epic 1800+ mile round trip journey begins in Liverpool on Saturday 1st August 2009 on motorbikes, returning 10 days later with all funds raised going to Claire House . (click here for route)10 riders, 10 bikes, 1 mission! Based over ten days with 9 camps.See our route HERE - You can Visit the latest news in the forum HERE.Visit our Sponsors & Donators HEREClaire House opened its doors to children in December 1998 providing a service for children aged 0 - 23 years with life threatening or life limiting conditions and their families from Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales and the Isle of Man. Since 1998, Claire House has gone from strength to strength and is now providing leadership and focus for its many children, families and staff and also for supporters. In 2006 they opened their teenage extension which provides the facilities for young people, and now provide care for over 200 families.Read more about the Claire House childrens hospice HERE
Keep following our blog for updates!