London to Casablanca - Charity Ride

Hullo,

I and Giles have finalised our plan for our charity ride to Morocco, we originally intended for the capital but settle for Casablanca as it's only a day away from Rabat, also have a direct flight to London.

Giles' raising money for the NDCS, whether I'm raising for Wheels for Wellbeing (on a fixie skidder with too many brakes).

We finished our JustGiving pages, you can choose which charity you want to support;

http://www.justgiving.com/teams/London-to-Casablanca

We'll be leaving in September the 1st on a Saturday, a good idea as it would be great if some of you can ride with us to Portsmouth.

Done. I should be back from Vietnam in time for the Portsmouth run...... fingers crossed

how long does your ride take and what route are you taking? cycling as far south as possible is very much on my life ambition list.

Is North Africa as far south as you can cycle?

As far as an unsupported hipster can go I reckon.

Louis, aimed for 40 days.

Orko, that's a lots, thank you very much for donating! will make a separate ride topic for London to Portsmouth.

scoble - much rep is due

Sir, Sir, Sir

DJ has bumped this thread

To put my love for cycling in perspective, I'm one of those people who refused to go on a date with a girl, because she doesn't cycle.

Maybe we should get married? I dropped a girl who I'd been seeing for about a year after she came out with the line 'why do you ride bikes around? whats the point, they are only for kids'*

*what she was actually saying was grow up, but I liked to think it was her fault for hating bikes ;)
Good luck on your journey, 40days should be plenty. Are you guys planning to cross normandy then hug the east coast (flat, hot and windy!) or go deeper into full garlic baguette country? Camp/bivvy/B&B/sleep under trees and wash in public fountains**

**that would be my choice, 6days out of 7!

Ed, can you give me a little bit more details of the rute you are taking, please?

like it, will ride out with you if free that day, :-)

I chosen the 1st of September in particular because it's a Saturday and was hoping enough people will able to join.

A TV channel called See Hear will likely to be there, departure is currently under discussing, but LMNH seemed like the idea location, just got to talk to them first.

Rik, I and Giles know France reasonably, we don't have a fixed route, just ride as far south as we can till we reach to the Pyrenees, the only country we're concern about is Spain.

BrickMan, the greatest thing about cycle touring is the food, so we're taking full advantage of going through garlic baguette and occasionally croissant country.

I was aking you mainly about of Spain.

BrickMan, the greatest thing about cycle touring is the food, so we're taking full advantage of going through garlic baguette and occasionally croissant country.

I am a self confessed pastry addict, and its something the french do very well.
Wish we had pastry wagons with warm goods come around every morning before work, I would be their biggest customer.

Great cause Ed. Donated.

poster been updated, will post route for Portsmouth soon.

great cause, great poster too, scoots work no?

The work of Scoots indeed.

this needs a bump and some people to donate

ffs, we get to pay for him to bugger off and stop posting on here

(am actually looking forwards to his reports from the ride)

Donated. Good luck Ed, I'm also looking forward very much to the ride reports!

Although, you couldn't do 100km more to make it a round 3000? Lazy fucker ;)

it's probably will be 3,000km due to my insistance of going to Barcelona which take a little longer.

donated

Awesome

Donated. Good work, Ed.

It would be great if a lots of you can make it to Trafalgar Square to see us off at 10:30 on a Saturday.