Bike4Life Easter Egg Run 1st April 2012

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Bike4Life Easter Egg Run - 1st April 2012
The first of two Bike4life events in 2012. The first fun Charity ride out will start at Meole Brace Park & Ride in Shrewsbury. Supporters will then bike along the M54 to the RAF Museum at Cosford. Pay £5 to join in and remember to bring an Easter Egg!
To register for this of this event now, or for more information, please email bike4life@midlandsairambulance.com
In aid of the Midlands Air Ambulance.
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[swampy]

Mate, this is the fourth thread I've read from you (a relatively new member) where you are mentioning raising money for the Midlands AA. They even have a bike4life email address...

I have no problem with the charity per se (indeed I agree they perform an excellent service), however I do feel that you should really make your association with them clear. Do you work for them in any capacity (including fundraising) ?

I only ask as in my mind there is no real difference in a charity spamming the forum than there is a company.
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I think you'll find now I'm settled into the forum I'll be more in the background & spending more time in the rideout section covering any ride & any charity.
Charity rides are near the top of my interests list but to start I have to talk about something for post starters, If you look I've replied to many varied topics & started a few different ones as well.
Track day guys will talk about tracks, learners will talk about first bikes, broken bike pushers will ask mechanical stuff & so it goes.
I'm slowly filling gaps in the calender & the next few will be Kids Hospice rideouts.
Don't tell me someone will moan about those being mentioned next.
Come on give a newbie breathing space, If I rattled on about my bike every one would soon be fed up as the thing is only held together by rust.
Now excuse me the Brass Monkey run for a kids Hospice is a better time filling topic for me than replying to a moan.
Justified moan perhaps, but as you say I'm new here so an average of topics has yet to be formed.
Judged on a few weeks of post filling ??
At least I'm contributing to the forum in a positive way, well trying to.
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[swampy]

You haven't answered the question...

Don't try to lay the guilt trip on me about helping out the poorly kids. I'm a clinician in the NHS. I have worked with vulnerable people in hospitals, care homes, day centres, the community and christ knows where else.

I have seen children and adults die, its very sad, but it happens. I am glad I was able to offer practical and real support to them and their families during this time. I did this through using skills developed over nearly 20 years, not by riding a motorcycle.

I accept charities need money (in fact I am probably more acutely aware of this than you having had my wages paid for by charities at various times in my career). I have my favourite charities, and support them in fundraising events many times per year. I have been here for 7 years, and have never felt it appropriate to spam the other forum members requesting their cold hard cash. This is because I think if people want to give, then they will. They don't need me nipping their arses to do so

I therefore refuse to feel guilty for challenging you on your motives for being here. If you have an interest in raising money, then fill your boots and pick up your MBE in 5 years.

If you work for any of the causes you have mentioned, please declare it.

Thanks.
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"Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death..." Hunter S Thompson

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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Did you really have to make five seperate posts over two and half hours?

What was wrong with editing the one post. It almost seems like you want it to keep popping back to the top of the topics list.

For me I dislike huge rideouts. Full of police, full of idiots and you can never get parked or get a drink because the queue's so massive. Then there's normally a crash at some point as well.

If that's your idea of a good ride then fair enough, but it doesn't interest me.
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[swampy]

Blimey petal, calm down.

Did you read my post in sentences answering each before moving on to the next in turn ? Only your tone becomes progressively more aggressive towards the end.

I will explain myself....

I noticed a noob had turned up and had made several posts promoting a particular charity, and urging the forum to buy their merchandise.

This has happened before, and has been done by people working for the charity trying raise funds. This is essentially spam, which as you may have noticed is not well tolerated on the forum.

Given this I challenged you on your motives for posting the stuff you had.

In your first answer you evaded the question, and told me you had better things to do than listen to me moaning, before trying to guilt trip me into shutting up by saying you had to organise a ride out for a childrens hospice, and therefore attempted to dismiss my question as frivolity.

I don't particularly like being patronised, so felt I should give you some info on my background in an attempt to let you know I have more experience of that sort of thing than you as a result of actually doing the job rather than running around with a bike and a bucket.

I also informed you that I fundraise on a regular basis, but don't feel that banging on about it all the time makes me look better in the eyes of the other members on here.

It was not an attempt to get into some willy waving competition about who's job is harder.

Frankly, I couldn't give a fuck whether you ride around collecting money, providing you don't personally benefit from it in anyway, and this was all I was trying to establish (and did in fact say in my second post).

Hope thats cleared that up.
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"Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death..." Hunter S Thompson

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