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Grim Riders Charity Ride 2012
Published on 2011-12-22 14:21:00
The Grim Riders charity ride of 2012 details have just been announced and is called the Sculpture Trail. As with all the previous Grim Riders charity rides, the aim of the challenge is to visit as many of the 20 (up from 16 from the previous years) public sculptures around the UK between January and December 2012 and depending upon the number of sculptures you manage to get photographic evidence of visiting you get awarded a certificate: Bronze Award - visit any 5 sculptures Silver Award –
Grim Riders Castles Ride 2011
Published on 2011-11-24 03:39:00
This years Grim Riders charity ride in aid of the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance is based on visiting as many of the designated castles around the UK (and one in Ireland) as you can between January and December 2011. Unfortunately due to one thing and other this year looks like the 1st year that non of us will have managed to visit all 15 castles and gain a Grim Riders gold certificate. The current (as of November) number of castles visited is: Bob - 8 castles, bronze a
Eleys Pie Shop
Published on 2011-11-24 03:26:00
Another surprisingly warm Saturday in September and while we were seated around Bob’s kitchen table drinking tea and putting the world to rights Bob happened to mention that he fancied a pasty from Eleys Pie Shop in Ironbridge, this was like a red rag to a bull, the mention of food top a bunch of hungry bikers so we jumped, hobbled and tottered over to our bikes and headed north west in the pursuit of well-made pastry and meat and a can of coke. The ride to Ironbridge to be fair isn’t very
Stonehenge
Published on 2011-11-24 03:23:00
On one of the warmest days of the year, instead of staying indoors and cool we decided to head south and have a wander around Wiltshire. Go figure! We started the day by meeting up with Ray and Bonzo at George White Motorcycles in Swindon, this gave us the opportunity to use the fantastic A429 fosse way almost most of the way to Swindon. Once we arrived it was about time for breakfast, so we headed inside to the 1st floor café inside George Whites showroom so an acceptable if unspectacular
Grim Riders MCC Charity Ride 2010 - Results
Published on 2010-12-18 06:22:00
This years Grim Riders MCC Charity ride has now closed and the results have been published. 52 riders took part this year helping raise £1280 for the the Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. 17 gained a Gold Award by visiting fifteen battlefields, with 6 exceptional riders visiting all sixteen battlefields on the list (including the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland) and achieving a Special Gold Award. 5 riders gained a Silver Award by visiting at least ten battlefields. 9 riders
Grim Riders MCC Charity Ride 2011
Published on 2010-12-18 06:21:00
For the 3rd year running Grim Riders MCC have announced a reason for getting out on your bike while supporting a worthwhile cause. The Castles Ride 2011 is the latest charity ride organised by Grim Riders MCC, the aim of this ride is simply to visit some of the castles of Britain that have been listed within a 2011. The castles may be visited at any time of the year and in any order you wish for you to be eligible for an award you just need to provide proof of your visit by photographing your
Battle of the Boyne, Ireland
Published on 2010-05-28 14:22:00
Well where shall I start? Bonzo came up from Cardiff on Friday afternoon and we parked the bikes on the drive ready for an early start, after a nice meal and a few beers of to bed around 12ish!We were going to leave about 6am but as we were up and ready at 4am due to the hot weather we left a little early around 5.30am to go up to Holyhead to catch our ferry.First stop was to fill up as my light was flashing on the fuel gauge! Good start.We pulled in at Balsall Common petrol station to fill up a
1st Battlefields Ride
Published on 2010-05-12 10:25:00
Last year’s Grim Riders MCC challenge was to visit as many of the 15 UK National Parks as possible within the year which is something we managed to do with Bob and Bonzo even visiting a few of them more than once.This years Grim Riders MCC challenge is called the Battlefields Ride and involves visiting as many of the 15 (plus 1 optional battlefield in Ireland) UK battlefields that are listed, I’ve created a little Google Map where you can see the location of the Battlefields including the on
1st ride of 2010
Published on 2010-05-10 14:30:00
To be honest this really wasn't our 1st ride of 2010, we have spent many days, hours and miles over the extended winter it’s just that we have not really gone or done anything interesting (and this is??) but this was the 1st time that we had all managed to get together as a group (and we even let Bonzo come up from Cardiff)For me personally the day started at 9:00am sitting outside Huggy's Speedshop in Atherstone as Flo was booked in for her MOT test which she flew through and then it was a qu
Grim Riders MCC Charity Ride 2010
Published on 2009-12-15 04:20:00
Grim who runs the Grim Riders MCC has posted few a subtle hints regarding next year’s charity motorcycle ride, it’s going to be called the Battlefields Ride 2010 and as with the previous year’s charity motorcycle ride it will involve visiting a number of specific places around of Britain within the year.While Grim has still to announce the names or number of Battlefields that will make up the Battlefields Ride 2010 you can be sure that they will cover most of Britain and prove to be intere