Gkam84 needs a trike to ride and help him deal with early Parkinson's - he's 28 FFS

Excellent idea - I'm in,

Just donated what I could afford on the site - wish I could do better, but I hope it all helps.

Regards,

Trikeman.

Seen it already... need to get onto my laptop first to donate though.

Don't know why I didn't think to start this thread though! Between this place and social media, £2.5k cant be impossible. Fortunately I guess he's already got all the clothing, pedals etc.

Ere Dave, any chance of some fantasy cross racing or something? Tenner to enter, all proceeds for the above?

Wow, thanks guys. Just come on here after replying to someone on twitter who was having digs because I own an xbox, have a two year old phone and a guitar. Asking why I don't sell them before asking others for help

I put the link in my signature as I didn't really want to start a thread. I'm not a person who really asks for help from people I barely know. But it has come time where I'm left with no option.

I didn't want to see like I was begging anyone to read my story either. I've been asking for re-tweets on twitter, just to get my story out there.

Took me over two weeks to go active with it having put it off so many times because what I've written is really quite personal and I was worried it would just sound like a sob story.

I have set the aim for £2500, by the time the fee's are taken off, that would come down to around £2100ish. But obviously if I can find a second hand one cheaper I would stop the donations.

I have tweeted ICE Trike's, mainly hoping for a discount or some sort of package from them, however unlikely that may be. As they say, anything is worth a go.

If there is anything anyone wants to know about me or questions that you might have at any time. Just give me a shout and I'll happily answer them.

Thank you for starting a thread, but please don't feel you have to donate or put any pressure on others to do the same. I know more than most how hard money is to come by at the moment. Encourage people to read it by all means though.

Done. I also tapped up my parents for a tenner, which is included in the donation. They send their best wishes!

I would be a bit reluctant to publicise as well, but have no such inhibitions if it's not me. Therefore, I hope you don't mind that this morning I blatantly asked ice for a discount!

I don't mind, as Tesco say, every little helps.

Tell your parents I am very grateful to them.

I'm not reluctant to publicise, just on places where people kinda of know me, I don't want to ask. That's why i've been tweeting larger companies and those with a few thousand followers. Get it spread out there in the public eye.

I know that it's just coming up to xmas and with the financial climate as it is, many people cannot donate, for that simple reason.

This site, unlike many, doesn't have an end date for raise money. So what I'm doing is leaving any money in my paypal account until such time's as I am able to afford a trike. If for any reason this never comes about or a company steps in to help me. Then the money will still be there and I think I can just press refund??

That way, everyone could have their money back

Me again folks. Been busy replying to tweets and emails this afternoon from people interested in my story.

Loads of retweets (38) at latest count. All in one day, When my first donations came in, I don't mind admitting it had me in tears to know that there are people out there who care about others they barely/don't know.

I come back here to see if anyone has idea's on how to get my page spread further around the internet?

Tomorrow I am going to tweet the many pro riders I follow to see if I can get tweets from them aswell. But I'm trying to think outside twitter?

OR, there is an option on Go Fund Me, to offer "rewards" to donors. But I can't think of anything, I don't really have much to offer others.

I thought about a raffle for one of my remaining two bikes, the one's I have for sale in the classified's. So 1 ticket per £5 donation or something like that. But they aren't new bikes or particularly appealing to everyone.

Any thoughts and suggestions would be gratefully received.

Thanks again for all the support. It means so much to me, that I can't really put it into words. Just to know that people out there care.

Have you thought about contacting Cycling Weekly?

My dad does PR, so could easily get in touch with the editor, otherwise just email them outlining your cause and they may do a feature for you.

Really good luck, you deserve it bud.

Do you think that is the kind of feature they might be interested in? I will fire off an email on Monday then.

I have been looking at other publications and online outlets who might run a story/feature for me. So I'll also contact them.

I just don't want this getting out of hand and being everywhere. I know that would be good for my story and donations, but I've also seen what has happened on Go Fund Me before, where someone puts up a small amount and people take pity on them, their donations rocket and amass far more than their target.

I don't want that to happen. If people would like to donate, thats fantastic, but I don't want pity, I just want to be able to get cycling again. I've been struggling the past couple of weeks on an upright and knackered old trainer, only getting 15 minutes in at a time before I have to come off.

Just seen this, very interesting article. Even for the big G. Now I want to understand why I can't cycle upright, yet this 58 year old can. Got the DR's on Thursday, so will investigate

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/nov/18/cycling-parkinsons-wellcom...

I saw this article a while ago, amazing, reminds me of a year ago when I could hardly stand first thing in the morning, doctor told me I had an inner ear infection affecting my balance, while on my bike I had no problem, cheers and keep staying positive GK.

Positivity was never my strong suit, but this weekend has given my unlimited positive things. Just getting tweets and support has been amazing. Donation's at sitting at £125 which has stunned me.

I've also has a couple of emails regarding features/interviews. Which I'm thinking about. I didn't know people would be interested. I need to look at the properly, because I don't want to end up in a Karmarama style stunt.

Today I've had retweets from all these people and gone right up to my tweet limit for today

Yanto Barker
Wesley Kreder
Amy Dombroski
Simon Geschke
Gabriella Day
Marijn de Vries
Tosh Van der Sande
Christian Heule
Sergio Pardilla
Bert Grabsch
Russell Hampton
Filippo Pozzato
Kenny De Ketele
Benat Intxausti
Haimar Zubeldia
Steven de Jongh
Emma Trott
Giovanni Visconti
Eros Capecchi
Xavier Florencio

Wondered why the Allez frame went back on the market so soon .... now I know - a little extra coming your way

Yeah Revo, its a great frame that I've built into a bike, unfortunately I just can't ride it anymore.

Thank you so much for your donation

Donation made - hope ur soon out on the road again.

Gkam- you may have already done this but if you have significant anxiety and can't use publictransport and now have a confirmed diagnosis of PD then you should be eligible for the mobility component of disability living allowance.

If you've applied and failed then appeal the decision. Everyone fails now and you must remember this has nothing to do with medical need and everything to do with politics.

The money could be enough to cover a monthly payment towards a recumbent bike at the lower rate. People on the higher rate buy cars with it.

Welfare rights organisations are helpful in sorting out applications.

Thank you TheHatter

Pisiform, you make a great point there for anyone else reading this whom may suffer from a disability that means they need help with travelling or living in general.

Unfortunately, I was told by the benefits centre to try for this part of the benefit, but after having the medical tests. I failed to be eligible because "I do not need help to walk, I can walk a good distance and do not need guidance or supervision outdoors"

I tried to appeal this because of my anxiety, I cannot travel on public transport alone, but this was rejected on the grounds the my granny has a car. I don't know why that comes into it. But I am not going to go and challenge it again at the moment. Until I've spoken to the benefits centre who advised me to try for it.

Finally finished the video. Let me know what you guys think. I'm not sure about it.

http://gofundme.com/Gkam84

Thanks for all the support received so far. Going to hit twitter hard again this afternoon with more pro cyclist's. Hopefully some more retweets in the offing after I reached my limit on tweets yesterday

Wow, I've just read your funding page and finding it difficult not to cry sat at my office desk. It puts the complaining phone call I got earlier chasing a report I was supposed to write last week into perspective. Good luck on your fundraising. I'm pretty sure it wont be long until you're way over your target.

Thank you Kingrolo.

Trust me when I say, no-one has shed more tears than myself over there. I took me two weeks to finally publish this after reading it every night and then thinking "nah, no-one cares" and then the past couple of days when donation's come in, its really astounding to know that people who don't know me, still care.

Today I've got so many retweets from pro cyclists. The list about could at least be doubled. A few tweets of support aswell and some Spanish/Portuguese person using some dodgy language and dropping the F word at me because I was asking for retweets and that I was begging for followers on twitter. I don't think he quite understood.

I have also emailed ICE on their generic "sales" email address to see what they might be able to do to help.

I have suggested a payment plan to them, starting with a deposit of my own £350 savings (which I have added to the goal) and the £210 I've received in donation's so far.

With any further donations and some of my benefit's paying off the rest of the cost. Hopefully they can put something like that in place for me. But we'll see.

I am hopefully that my link and story will be up on another forum I use alot that isn't cycling related. After asking the owners permission because they have a strict "no charity/begging or self advertising" rule. But from a chat with them, they are willing to adjust the rule's to enable me to post my story.

I've been using that site for 8 years and am quite well known. They have a user base of over 15k and around 5k active, So even if they all donated 50p, I'd make my goal.

Thank you all for your continued support and I hope to repay all your kindness by getting a trike and doing video's and blog posts for you all to read, whether that be here or starting my own blog.

I got a reply from ICE Trikes

Oh well, worth a try. Still, you're at 19% already, so there's lots to be positive about.

Yeah I know, that does include my adding £350 towards the total in "offline" donation's after checking my bank balance.

I don't know if that shows up properly on the page, I will be putting that in an update tonight at some point.

I do understand ICE's stance though, they aren't a huge multinational like some other bike manufacturers. Unfortunately, there are no recumbent multinational's to go and speak to about it either. That's why I decided to raise money on my own.

What do people think of the video?

Just a quick thank you to everyone before I get some shut eye. I am sitting on 20% of my goal. Your support has been amazing, Little did I know how wonderful the cycling community could been until I started this.

Tomorrow's mission.....Target the emotional side of some people in the "anti-cycle" section of society. I don't mean the white van man and people who cut us up all the time. But people who have given us bad press lately. For instance Karmarama agency and others of the same ilk, who might be looking for a good story after their bad reputation with cycling recently.

If you can think of anyone, give me a shout

Blimey, where to start?! Just trawl through some of the articles on here I suppose. Addison Lee?

Re the video, I haven't had chance to watch it yet. I tend to look at this site when I have a couple of minutes at work etc. I'll let you know once I've seen it.

Great news on the progress.

EDIT: I wish I had room for your fixie, but sadly not!

Good to see that in the weekly email I get from Twitter about stories and sites linked by users I follow, Gkam's page was ranked number one, ahead of anything to do with the Track World Cup, Team Sky, Lance Armstrong or indeed Arsenal stuffing Spurs.

Thats impressive Simon, you must follow the "right" people.

My email contained

Timmy Duggan joins Saxo Bank
Glasgow to host 2013 National Road Race
Can you ride a bike? (parkinson's riders)
Gianni Meersman leaves Lotto-Belisol
Rodriguez Close To Katusha Contract

Than again, I might not get tweets about myself.

Been quite today as I've not been feeling like sitting at a computer.

Good call Notfastenough, Addison Lee

Yanto's retweet was 4th on my email!

although i don't have any money spare atm (see my new bike thread
i do have a roland microcube amp that i bought not long ago.i would be happy to sell it and forward you the money (as i don't really play it/won't be playing outside for a long time,due to my bad guitar skillz

the only problem is that i don't have a credit card (so would have to post you the money) my e mail address is adamibanezcunningham@hotmail.co.uk.

will try and sell it this week (there's a shop in devizes that buys 2nd hand stuff.

take it easy bud (you'll get that trike before you know it

I can accept offline donation's and add them to the total myself through the online donation tab. It all gets added to the total.

I shall email you, but its a shame about your guitar skills though, being a guitarist myself. Thats what the G in my username stands for

If anyone else wanted to donate but cannot for any reason. Let me know.

Keith I was really moved reading your story and would like to try to help. First just a question about whether you are sure you need a recumbent trike? An upright trike may well be significantly cheaper and takes more standard components that I and I'm sure many others on here would be able to help you out with. I run a small bike company and though we don't do any trikes I may have some contacts that could help. I know one of my dealers does do some upright trike stuff. If you think you definitely need the recumbent then I'll do what I can in terms of cash.

Thanks for your reply Sam.

I have tried upright trikes, both a modified one with two wheel's at the back and a custom built on for a disabled person who lives quite close with two wheel's at the front.

While that solves the balance issue's somewhat. Because of my body positioning, my leg still goes like the clappers. After trying a recumbent, not only did it solve my balance, it also stopped the left side of my body from shaking to the extent where I cannot cycling.

I was still cycling in the safety of my house on a trainer and balanced between a bed and a wall for any off's I might have, but because the tremors in my leg, that has had to stop aswell.

The tremors have been slowed and as less frequent because of medication now, but its still something I have to live with.

Thank you for your input though

What a great thing to do for someone, this fund might take a while but there's some cool things happening along the way!

Its been truly astounding if i'm honest notfastenough, the response to help me out. 22% there in less than four days now including my own savings.

Going to list the bike's I have for sale here again later, but this time as component parts and see if there are people who just want a bit or two and then what's left will get put on ebay. That might bring me a bit more to put towards the goal.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would get so much help so soon. It just shows that there are good people in the world and most of them are cyclist

Day 4 down, just updated my page, bit of negativity today, but nothing overly bad. sitting at 25% now, mental, I am over the moon at the progress and can't thank you all enough. Although I am working on something special for each and every donor.

Its nothing exciting I'm afraid, I'm thinking a hand written letter or something, just to say thank you personally and not digitally. Now to work on my hand writing

Cool stuff, forget the negative bits, full steam ahead and all that. I've been trying to think of other things which could raise something. I'm cultivating a moustache for Movember, but that's cancer charities. I've committed to some big group walk thing, but it's a. months away, and b. for oxfam. No-one's going to sponsor me for a bike ride since they know I'd ride regardless.

If only one of those pro's would send you a signed jersey to auction!

I did think about that, but I don't have the foggiest of how to go about it. After seeing a tweet that Laura Trott's jersey sold for charity over a grand.....But if it was her, I'd be to tempted to sleep with it on my pillow.

But if anyone knows how to go about approaching any pro's regarding a signed item of some sort, fire me a message on here and I'll see if I can't charm them

Just posted an update and tweeted this at a few people. Will hit some pro's up later. But off for my weekly check up with the Dr

Could you maybe take a look at my latest update and point me in the right direction if you know anyone? http://www.gofundme.com/Gkam84

just watched the vid - it's cool, I'd love to ride that little route, then stop for a snack by the river! Looks great.

I figured that the 'negativity' would be something like what you said, but you only need to read replies to high-profile tweeters or comments on news stories to see that there are too many evolutionary throwbacks that shouldn't be allowed near an internet connection. Sod em.

I'm not lucky enough to know any pro's though! I'd love a framed/signed rainbow jersey one day, but god knows what that might cost...

Well i'll see if I can get anything from a pro, but know it will be hard as its not for a charity, just for a cause. I am going to tweet it out there and see. Maybe I will try some of the paralympic cyclist's. Jody Cundy and other's retweeted me. So that might be an option.

Then hold a silent/online auction for Road.cc members, their friend and family, as I'd rather someone who would like it, over some random on ebay.

Well today's twitter spamming went something like this

Within minute's I've already had replies and direct messages from BMC and Orica Greenedge asking me to email their office's.

Fingers crossed now. Just have to write out a nice email to them

Col Coldeportes are on board and are willing to donate something

Just donated to gkam, got to help the lad. Shite news what has happened and hope he gets the trike.

Mike, WOW thank you so much for your donation and also, welcomeish to the site with your fourth post

Some really nice roads out Rothie way, I used to go out that way via Daviot, out to Rothie and back to Aberdeen via Meldrum.

Blimey! Here's hoping.

Well guys, just thinking about bed again.

There really are some special people in this world. 5 days and sitting just over 28% of the goal.

Suggestion's would be welcome, if I was to get any item's donated, how should I sell them? So obviously there is here but not an auction, so would have to set a price. I don't like that idea because I might want to much or whatever.

There is ebay, but that opens it up to all the world, when I'd really like it to go to cyclists for here.

If I got a few things, I thought about putting together a wee website and having some sort of silent auction style bidding process.

The final one would be a raffle, every £5 that's donated gets you a ticket. So if you donated £10, you would get two tickets and so on. If I get a few item's. That might be a good idea, chuck you all in a bucket and film the drawing?

Thoughts on this?

Cheers for today

Well if you wanted a silent auction, you could just invite private messages with the bids in. Post a copy of the winning bid.

However, personally I think I like the raffle idea. I think it would also possibly raise more, since I don't have enough (a few hundred £ for an average pro's jersey? Even more?) to spare on a winning bid, but I'd drop £20 on a few tickets. Recession/christmas and all that, I reckon I wouldn't be the only one.

Yeah I thought that might get people's interest more and be able to keep it as something for those who donate.

Only other team I've had a reply from, Endura Racing, asked me to email someone and I got an out of office reply

FIRST team that's going to send me something......

BMC Racing

Just been getting email addresses for others who didn't reply to my tweet and will fire them off

If anyone has a spare moment, could they help me to track down some email address's

I am currently looking for

Euskaltel
FDJ
Liquigas/Cannondale
Lotto - Belisol
Omega Pharma
Rabobank
Saxo Bank
Sky
Vacansoleil

Going to their website's hasn't helped, they have a generic form to fill in, but some only allow 200 characters.

Off to start on the Continental teams. I might need to work on a strategy to have an auction, but also raffle some via the funding set up??

We've got a signed ben swift bottle from the tour of norway. you can have that

plus a bunch of other stuff, no doubt. we'll do a trawl.

Cheers Dave that would be fantastic,

I'll just have to work out what to do, because I don't know how to structure an auction, raffle or whatever It may be. Dependant on the volume of things I receive. I'll have to think it through.

Just got an amazing email back from Team Colombia Coldeportes

Gkam - I wish you all the best with your efforts. At the moment I have a bike for sale and shall make a contribution after that. (I can't help straight away because I have computer/ internet issues.)

I tend to lurk on this site more than I write but can I just say thanks for all the posts you write as I do find a lot of them useful!

Thank you Comrade.

Glad you came out of lurk mode and that you like some of my posts. I try to be as useful as possible

36% raised by 45 people in 7 days. This is just stunned me to the core. I always had faith that people might be willing to help me a little. But this much, in 7 days has really moved me.

When I started out with this effort. I really just put the site up, into my signature and sent out a couple of tweets. Since alotronic began this thread. The tips, suggestions and donation's have been amazing.

Thanks to all of you from the bottom of my heart. Today I will be hitting twitter again to get through the list I have left to tweet about maybe donating an item to my intended auction. Still working out how to do it, but its coming along and keeping some items back to raffle

Hope people have a nice Sunday and get out for a ride or a swim down the high street in some cases. Stay safe though

Might have a nice collectors item for the auction

A jersey from James McCallum of Rapha Condor Sharp

Ok so far for donation items I have

BMC Racing Team
Team Colombia Coldeportes
Endura Racing
James McCallum (Rapha Condor Sharp)
Yanto Barker (Uk Youth)
Hayden Roulston (RSNT)

Do you have any contacts that might be willing to get involved? Now is the time to call in favours and twist arm's

I'm off to email major retailers, without hoping to much as I know they don't often do charitable donation's, unless its for a charity they are involved with

That's a great list. Before you go calling in any more favours, I'd see how much that lot raises first!

GKam, see today's Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2238450/Cycling-improve-connec...

Thanks for that link Steven, that just kinda confirms to everyone exactly why I am trying to get back cycling.

Unfortunately my balance is the worst part, followed by my shakes, that's why I have to go recumbent and trike rather than upright.

The only part I didn't like reading, but already knew was this

"As the disease progresses, speech and balance can be affected and some sufferers become wheelchair-bound."

That really scares the living shit out of me.

Another update, got knocked back from Oakley and Rapha

The email's are coming thick and fast this morning. But this has to be the best I've received yet though out my appeal

Wow, now that has the potential to be very cool indeed!

Whoever ends up with the Colombia kit - you'll either need to frame it, or be able to climb like spiderman!

I know, its so cool of them to donate an item all the way for Colombia to help little old me.

Its weird. A few UK things, but also USA and NZ

Sooooooooooooooooo

I've ran out of thank you's I think. This is just snowballing and its awesome. So many new contacts made via twitter and email's.

A few turn downs. Which is understandable from the retail stores who already support charities and their own foundations. But otherwise its very positive.

A little update, I have commissioned three piece's of artwork for the auction, which may turn into six because the artist is so excited about me asking her to help out.

They will be, Wiggo in TT yellow at TdF, Cav winning the Worlds and Cav winning a stage in rainbow.

She wants to posterize them but also paint them in acrylic.

How to keep my appeal in the spot light?

First 7 days I had 1387 unique visitors to my page, Its been 10 days now and the final 3 have had 43 visits

Could always commission some bike artwork from me...

Depends what you want really, but I have access to "The best Etching Workshop in London," according to Norman Ackroyd and can also do any kind of relief printing.

All you have to do is ask, and specify the number that you want in the edition.

COOL.

That sounds amazing Raleigh, but I have no idea of what it is. lol.

Fire me at email Guitaristkam@gmail.com and have a yap

Got my first non cycling positive today, British touring car team, ES Racing.com have said they will sort something out for me

Now ive been payed, ive made a donation. All the best with everything

Thank you TER......Who's going to become donor 50?

No special prizes, but a iCuddle from me....if you are female

I think the auction/raffle has a treat in store from Raleigh.

It has inspired me to look out some canvas and see if I can't put together something of my own......could be interesting

If someone could try out my website, its not set up totally, but have a look and get an idea, then someone fill in the contact form to try out my settings

www.Gkam84.tk

Do it, go and buy/beg some Art materials and get painting/drawing/printing/experimenting.

That worked a treat Raleigh. Finally got it working.

Nobody else needs to test the contact form, thanks

But if anyone else is arty, feel free to contribute an item to the auction. I'll give you full credit and any information about yourself that you wanted included

If anyone is going to get their art skills.

Anyone this good? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=181021468670&fromMa...

Just got an email from the guy at BMC

"Your autographed item is on its way to you"

Keeping the suspense up for everyone as I have no clue what it is

Contact from Mark Colbourne, World and Paralympic Champion who is PHONING me tomorrow

FAST Freddie Rodriguez is also getting involved

Got a DM from festinagirl on Twitter. I have no idea who she is, but she's be brilliant at tweeting my link.

It reads

...

Yes????

Eh? I posted "drum roll..." inside some pointy brackets, referring to the suspense. Maybe funny formatting killed it.

Ah right......

Another confirmation.....Who's gonna be bidding on this beauty??

A limited edition First Day Cover signed by Dani King

What's a first day cover?

Ah, Google thinks it's stamps - has she signed ones with her on or something?

I think so, every gold medallist got a stamp, I don't know whats limited edition about it though.

Another confirmation

First Day Cover is a commemorative envelope the Royal Mail issue with each new set of stamps, postmarked the day they were issued (hence the name)

Sometimes restricted to a certain number, hence the limited edition. My mum started me off on a collection in the mid-70s, then I discovered punk and she gave up...

Dani King signed FDC bound to appeal to a collector.

Ah ha, So its not a set of stamps. I was hoping it was going to be one of those HUGE stamps the riders got presented with to stand beside their gold post box

I was hoping it would be Dani King in the post.

Glad to see your video is 'touchable' Keith, that's some weird technology you've used there!

I did wonder, then I thought......Hmmmmm Russian's. I wonder if it was a leggy blonde, she can touch my video.....

Dani King in the post. Now that's an auction item I would have to try out first But could try harder to get Laura Trott in the post and keep her

Another tick to the donation of items box.....James Nash BTCC 2011 Independent Champion

Also happens to be my favourite driver since John Clelland, Kieth O'Dor and David Leslie circa 1991 (got my first VHS of them racing)

Used to really enjoy BTCC. Aiello, Leslie in the Nissans, and Rikard Rydell in the Volvo, with Matt Neil gatecrashing as a privateer.

I met Paul O'Neil a couple of times through a mutual friend. We got to go to the end-of-season party at Donington Park (think this was in 2003 or 2004 - he was driving a Vauxhall Astra works car). Rumours were already flying that Paul wasn't getting a contract for the following season, he got leathered and somehow his undies ended up hanging off a power cable that was strung overhead while he was still wearing trousers...

So who wants to see a sneak peek at one of the commission's? Not finished, but I can show you a part....You name which part

No-one? Everyone bedded then

I do want to show this young girl's work off

New tactic this morning, although I've been up all night.....I blame the full moon.

But I've been firing off emails like nobodies busy to management peoples. Can't say to much anymore about what I'm doing. Someone seems to be trying to copy everything I do

Copy everything you do - WTF?!

Go on then, show us the top left of it...

Well not copying exactly, but contacting people I have had success with securing a donation item and then asking them to donate to his fund raising for something else.

I don't believe he is a member of the forum either

Here is the top left, can you guess who it is yet?

Background has not been done yet

Heck, I don't know - Cartman?!

Pale blue kit - Tom Boonen?

I asked her to switch up the kit as I didn't want to run into any copyright, but as she's done it, it suits next season's for this rider

oh ok, is it Cav?

It is indeed.

AH, I need help.......I've been asked to provide a "success story" to go fund me site by the 7th Dec.

With the chance to win an Ipad Mini and £100 towards my appeal......

This is it took me a number of weeks to write and publish my story in the first place and there are rules to the story. I must sit and make eye contact with the camera.....blah blah blah.

Christ, I would love an Ipad mini for the auction.....What do I say.

The very fact that you posted it, and all the commenting here proves that you've built up the confidence to tell people about your cause.

That's pretty good.

That's true. I am busy writing the dark bits that I left out of my story for a suicide prevention charity who saw my story.

I should just make the video and get on with it. Tomorrow's job, look out a beanie and smile for the camera

You talk about your depression and lack of confidence, but Raleighs right, the candor with which you discuss those things on here is to be respected. Go back and read that long thread on depression (from maybe a year ago?), I was new here and that was a bit of an eye-opener. It suggested that people here, yourself among them, were as friendly, honest and intelligent as a virtual community could be expected to be.

I've tried recording my own voice and thought it sounded as odd as a lemonade sandwich, but that would apply to any of us.

Go for it!

I suppose if I can do it, it gets more publicity for my page.

I find talking on here/the internet alot easier than trying to talk face to face. I can barely hold a conversation with a shop keeper in "real" life when feeling like this, Some days are better than others. But tomorrow, I shall sit in front of my contour and get something sorted

First drawing fully finished. Loving the work aswell. If you would like to see it. Please use the contact form on my website and I'll send you a picture of it.

Very interesting take she has on the picture I gave her to work from

So my artist friend didn't tempt you, How does a Richard Mitchelson signed print grab your fancy?

Depends what of...

I do like the sound of the drawing as well actually, but can just wait until all is revealed anyway.

From Richards email

"It will either be one of my cycling legends portraits or something that's appeared in Rouleur magazine"

Hello Gkam

I havean ICE Trice which I am considering selling for approx £1800 & delivery.
It's actuall my wife's trike which has had very little use in the 4 or 5years she has owned it due to orthopeadic problems
FYI I am near Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire.
If this is of interst let me know & I can email details & pics to you

Regards
jogler

Check your email, I messaged you earlier when you posted on my other thread to find out more information.

So you lovely bunch, If you have twitter, I'd love it if you could post this daily??

No smartphone for me
I am hope Santa is going to bring one soon

You don't need a smart phone to tweet

I don't own a mobile phone anymore since mine packed up in the summer

Just put a bit in the fund, fingers crossed you get to your target soon and back out on the roads

It just told me I couldn't pay!

Paypal told you that or GoFundMe?

Sorted now. Shame I didn't get my donation in before JE James stepped in to steal my thunder! Happy to chip in for whatever (bike?) charity you choose to support.

No worries Paul. Its all something in the pot. Plus you are now in the raffle for item's that I've been donated