''Men are a little bit shy about prostate cancer and it's silly. This year, Mr Fahey said, the group wanted to gain more attention, and while there was no goal set for fundraising, ''any donation is always welcome''. Maria Orlando, another one of my customers, is also on hand to help. The inaugural trip last year from Picton to Queenstown raised $1600, which was given to the Cancer Foundation of New Zealand. Smiling at the recollection I push the bike in to the cranny so that it is not too. I decided to give it a theme.''Ī number of the group, whose average age last year was 64, but in the 50s this year, were cancer survivors, and Mr Fahey said prostate cancer was ''something that is near to me''. You get to know new people, the camaraderie is great, we share accommodation, we cook our own food. The trip incorporates as many back roads and four-wheel-drive tracks as possible, even using a barge to access D'Urville Island in the Marlborough Sounds, and travelling its 30-odd kilometres of tracks.Īlthough the adventure, the second of its kind, is to be ''a bit of fun'', it will also serve as a fundraiser and awareness drive for prostate cancer. Mr Fahey does not plan on taking the easy route.Įxpanding on ''low-speed, high-scenic'', he adds low-cost and semi off-road''. Not that the riders have ever been posties - the bikes come from farms or were bought second-hand. Please contact us directly if you are needing something second hand that is not featured online. We had one mechanical mishap and the other 15 bikes never missed a beat,'' Mr Fahey said.
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The Cromwell man and 16 others on postie bikes - plus support crew - will head off on February 15 for the week-long journey, which starts and finishes in Hanmer Springs. Or, in Ivan Fahey's words, a ''low-speed, high-scenic adventure''. A charity group plans a 900km circumnavigation of the top of the South Island on ''postie'' motorcycles, at an average speed of 40kmh. “Our Laser conference starts at the Sheraton Mirage on Thursday and no doubt we will set ourselves another challenge for this coming year.Cromwell man Ivan Fahey with his postie bike. “Depression is something many of us have come into contact with either ourselves or with friends and family members, and we want people to know help is only a phone call away. “Now we’ve raised $106,000 and we’re still going.
“We only thought we would raise about $25,000 at the most, but there have been so many people who have donated to us at stops along the way when they hear what we’re doing. “We started picking up second-hand postie bikes from auctions and found out there’s actually a strong market, almost a cult following, for the things,” Mr Keil said. Laser Group managing director Steve Keil said the challenge started as a joke at last year’s group conference when a few mates said to each other “we should ride to the next one on postie bikes.” I dont have to be precious about breaking him as hes cheap to maintain and parts. APB Auto - Honda CT110 Postie Bike For Sale Honda CT110 Motorcycle Supplier Honda CT110 Postie Bike Parts Tyres Postal Contractors QLD Caboolture 4510. It was a great excuse to jump out and have a go and raise money for a good cause,” Ms Pratt, the only female on the journey, said. Current motorcycles: Honda CT110 Postie bike, Aprilia Sportcity 250cc. I am going out this morning to look at a couple of second hand ones and to a dealer to to check out a new one. Adventure Postie Bike - Part 1After several years of thinking about it off and on, I decide to buy a used ‘Postie’ bike, which is a Honda CT110. Thank you all very much for the information. I will be mounting it on the extended A frame of my caravan (w. “I just wanted to be able to support the others who were also on the postie challenge. This coming winter I am off to WA for six weeks and want to get a postie bike for use over there. The Melbourne resident said she had never considered getting her licence until her colleagues at Laser Group put out the challenge to ride from Canberra to the Gold Coast to support the national group that helps people fight depression. In a split second a handful of rough hands approached and manhandled him.
TRAVELLING 2000km to raise money for beyondblue inspired Sharon Pratt to get her motorbike licence - and now she and her fellow riders have raised more than $100,000. One story to emerge from his time as a postie has passed into folklore.
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