Blood Bikes

[Blade]

27 years old, 5ft4 and 9 stone wet through and you ride a Blade .

TBH if I wasn't married Ro I think I would be in love with you

[Blade]

All joking aside Ro, I think its a great think your doing and you should be rightly proud of your achievements and generosity in helping others

[Fireblade_Ro]

*blush* - I'll keep the helmet on in the pics... save the vision as a good one!

[Monty]

Doffing my hat in your general direction Ro, well done you. This is something I've been talking about doing for the last ten years and will do when my youngest go to school. Maximum respect xxx

[Fireblade_Ro]

https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/rohan-battison" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - so this happened today... within 3 hours I'm less than £80 from my £500 target, with the additional funds raised going directly to Shropshire and Staffordshire Blood Bikes (an estimated £300 to them at the moment... still rising!)

If anyone can spare even just £1 then this could result in money towards another bike for the charity... one day an SSBB rider may have the ride of your life... best that they have enough bikes to ride

Thank you to everyone who has already donated - I'm overwhelmed by the generosity of bikers!!!!

[Kwacky]

Good luck.

[Blade]

Just seen this good luck Ro

[Kwacky]

Looks like you've beaten your target. Nice one.

[Blade]

Not just beaten it but smashed it and still counting. SSBB will be happy bikers with all your efforts Ro.

[Fireblade_Ro]

I've had 3 offline donations, 2 x £10 and £50 from my grandparents taking the total now to £680... just £20 shy of £700!!!

Blown away.

:')

[Blade]

Just donated. All the best with your endeavours

[Fireblade_Ro]

The total donated came to £800 in just over 24hrs

... and the blade is now in the workshop, to be collected either 28th or 29th December! Pictures to follow

[Blade]

Awesome news. Well Done Ro and very much look forward to seeing pictures of the mighty Blade

[Kwacky]

Nice one.

[Rossgo]

Can we no longer donate? Didn't manage to get around doing it yet. But congrats on such a healthy number [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]

[Fireblade_Ro]

The page has closed due to so many donations and generosity I went 4 times over my goal!!! Any further donations can be made directly to SSBB on their website and you could put in a comment regarding support for the blood blade

The custom designed rack for the Givi panniers is being fabricated over the next few weeks and is going to be fitted in the New Year

[Fireblade_Ro]

Here she is she won't be everyones cup of tea but I bloody (mind the pun) love it. She needs a few extra bits added (wing mirrors etc) and the panniers to be painted, vinyl'd then a custom made rack fitted and she's good to go!!

Thanks again for supporting me

Only thing left now is to give her a name... as all blood bikes have names... but with so many inspirational people around, lost family members and friends... I have no idea where to start!!!

[Kwacky]

Monkey

The colours remind me of the TV character



There's the rhesus monkey

Rhesus = blood.

[StMarks]

On a related aspect, the Tankslap Red hand decal may look great on that scheme

[Blade]

Looking good Ro, looking good, but then all Blades do