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

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  • November 17, 2012 at 12:18 pm #17285
    alotronic

    Completely by chance I clicked on Gkan84’s sig, wondering what it was about.

    Turns out he (Keith) is suffering early onset Parkinson’s and is after money to buy himself a recumbent trike so he can keep riding. He’s 28.

    By the look of it he’s only had his fundme page open for a short while. I suspect he’s being polite and not putting a direct link to it himself on the forum just yet?!

    He’s chosen a nice trike to aim for:
    http://www.icetrikes.co/explore-our-trikes/sprint#

    So, first of all wouldn’t hurt to give the Keith a little money would it? I’ve started the pot with a measly tenner, but I figure there’s quite a few of us here for whom a tenner represents just about nothing, so… it’s paypal so use a bit of your ‘bike fund’ like I did!

    Secondly maybe we can find a way of getting something similar second hand or for a discount somewhere?

    http://www.gofundme.com/Gkam84

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  • November 25, 2012 at 2:29 am #706811
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    Gkam84

    36% raised by 45 people in 7
    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 😀

    November 24, 2012 at 9:59 pm #706809
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    Gkam84

    Thank you Comrade.
    Glad you
    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 😉

    November 24, 2012 at 7:18 am #706807
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    Comrade

    Gkam – I wish you all the
    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!

    November 23, 2012 at 4:31 pm #706805
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    Gkam84

    Cheers Dave that would be
    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

    Dear Keith,

    my name is David Evangelista, Press Officer of Team Colombia. I am also the one who replied to your tweet.
    I am very impressed by your story, and I will be happy to check what we can do to give a contribution to your auction. Do consider that all of our riders are in Colombia at the moment, but I will ask whether there is any piece of apparel that we can send you. I would rather have sent you something autographed, but I will have the guys on hand in January only.
    Look out for an update for us in some days!

    Hang in there! I am sure you will collect a lot of support from the cycling world!

    Kind regards

    David Evangelista
    Press Officer

    November 23, 2012 at 4:24 pm #706803
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    dave atkinson

    We’ve got a signed ben swift
    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.

    November 23, 2012 at 4:02 pm #706801
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    Gkam84

    If anyone has a spare moment,
    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?? 😕

    November 23, 2012 at 3:41 pm #706799
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    Gkam84

    FIRST team that’s going to
    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 :B

    November 23, 2012 at 2:23 pm #706797
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    Gkam84

    Yeah I thought that might get
    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 😀

    November 23, 2012 at 8:50 am #706795
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    notfastenough

    Well if you wanted a silent
    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.

    November 23, 2012 at 12:54 am #706793
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    Gkam84

    Well guys, just thinking
    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 😀

    November 22, 2012 at 9:09 pm #706791
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    notfastenough

    Gkam84 wrote:Well today’s

    Gkam84 wrote:
    Well today’s twitter spamming went something like this

    Do you think your team might be able to help my appeal with a donate of something for auction? http://www.gofundme.com/Gkam84

    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 :O

    Blimey! Here’s hoping.

    November 22, 2012 at 8:30 pm #706789
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    Gkam84

    Mike, WOW thank you so
    Mike, WOW :O 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.

    November 22, 2012 at 8:20 pm #706787
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    mikecassie

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

    November 22, 2012 at 7:00 pm #706785
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    Gkam84

    Well today’s twitter spamming
    Well today’s twitter spamming went something like this

    Do you think your team might be able to help my appeal with a donate of something for auction? http://www.gofundme.com/Gkam84

    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 :O

    November 22, 2012 at 1:26 pm #706783
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    Gkam84

    Well i’ll see if I can get
    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.

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