Around Australia for sick kids
Replicating the late Winifred Wells’ exploits in
1950 and 1952, Brian ‘Beetle’ Bayley sets off on the
8th September aboard his 2016 Royal Enfield Classic 350 on a ride round Australia which he expects to take 40 days to cover 14,000km.
The Enfield has already clocked up 60,000 km, including a trip across Australia in 2017/18. Travelling clockwise, he plans to leave from the Union Hotel in Kiewa, Victoria, heading through Fitzroy, Darwin, Mount Isa, Cairns, Brisbane and back home via inland route.
His aim is to raise money for the Children’s Leukaemia & Cancer Research Foundation. To this end, he has produced stickers that he will put up in various locations. “I’m running a competition,” says Brian, known as Beetle. “Find one of my stickers stuck on a structure and take a photo. At the end of my ride around Australia we’ll see who has photographed the most amount of stickers in different places. I have no idea of the award as yet but I’m thinking it will be fun anyway, so keep your eyes out and join in.“
For more details on Brian’s trip, he can be contacted on 0458294271. Photos can be sent to his phone number or emailed to beatbay3@gmail.com. The winner will be notified within one week of his return.
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