The Brewery

A big thank you to the Copper Dragon Brewery in Skipton for buying tickets to the launch on the 20th September and making a donation as well. They have a very good web site with an on line shop at www.copperdragon.uk.com, take a look.

The Rotary Club Presentation

Last week I gave a 30 minutes talk to the local Rotary club on the subject of Enduro Africa. I had one or two problems with the technology, which given my background is not good!

First problem was that the embedded videos would not play automatically but had to be attempted several time.

The second was with sound, I had agreed to use somebody else's speakers but when I started playing the video there was no sound so I switched to my own iPod speakers. Still no sound, but I noticed I had turned mute on, turned it off and there was sound, but it was too quiet for the size of the room, so I switched speakers and it was OK.

The presentation itself went well and I have had lots of useful feedback so I can improve it. Things such as saying what £10 means it terms of people visited and miles covered, etc. Also some offers of assistance.

I am going to contact other Rotary clubs in the area to offer to give the same talk, I think a big part of what we are doing is communication.

Sally 'does Moto Cross'

At the start of this blog I said that we had never intentially ridden off road. That's not totally true as two years ago I bought Sally a day's Moto Cross training as a Christmas present - she was not amused, although as you can see she did manage to get some 'air'!

She did say afterwards that it was exhausting and I think the words 'never again' were used.

Corporate Sponsorship

We have written to some local businesses for corporate sponsorship, we have had some promises already and one major sponsor from Skipton. We have also written to our insurers, motorcycle clothing companies and so on.

We have also started investigating printing sponsor's logos on t-shirts, stickers for helmets, and cloth badges for clothing.

I have agreed to speak next week to the local Rotary club which should be very interesting, I'll let you know how it goes!

On-line sponsorship payments live!

We have just set up on-line sponsorship payments via justgiving.com which was very simple and also pays more than the sponsorship because if you are a UK tax payer the Inland Revenue add an extra 28%

First Press Article

The above article appeared in our local paper the Craven Herald and announces our launch night on 20 September.