On Sunday the 25^th of September, I’m going to don my finest attire and join men and women across the globe in the 2016 Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride to find a cure for Prostate Cancer and to help Men’s Mental Health. Over 1,300 men a day die of prostate cancer worldwide, and it’s time for that to end. Your donation will help The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride reach its goal of $US5 Million to fund research into a cure for a disease that claims far too many gentlemen each year.

This is the best dressed way to fight prostate cancer and help improve men’s mental health – cheers and thank you!

I am doing pretty good as I have reached my target but we need to really try and make an impact and with the help of you lot that read my blogs , I would be so stoked if you could sponsor me at:

I received this message today from the DGR.

Congratulations, Steve!

You are one of the top 250 fundraisers over the past five days raising an amazing USD $1112

As a reward and thank you for all of your sterling efforts to raise funds for prostate cancer research and male suicide prevention, you will be receiving a limited edition foil embellished A2 DGR poster courtesy of Avon graphics.

I was pretty chuffed at that. here are my details to go to if you can help and of course, please pass the good word, any amount is good, as little as a couple of dollars.

Right now I am 176th in sponsorship worldwide but would love to get higher, last year I became the third highest in the USA with donations and even though it was hard work, it was all worth it.

The link Below is to sponsor me and as many of you read my blog, it would be bloody awesome if you can help in any way to donate and help me raise some good funding on the ride that I shall be participating THIS  very weekend.

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Pass the link to all your family in friends if you can, I never ask for anything but this is a good and much needed charity, the money goes directly to the charity and sure hope you can help, this also promotes Motorcycling and thats a good thing.

Thanks again and I will be wearing a Royal Air Force uniforn if I can fit my fat arse in it so have been walking and dieting to try and get that accomplished too.

Once again, the link is below to help, thanks so much for reading, lets get a great amount for this charity.

https://www.gentlemansride.com/rider/carpy

The Glemseck 101 festival is on again this weekend in Germany and it’s geared up to be bigger than ever. This year there’s been a lot of hype surrounding what is arguably the highlight of the show, the Glemseck 1/8 mile sprints. The custom builder class, named ‘Sultans of Sprint’, is definitely a stand out for me, but there are also a few other rather interesting classes being run. There’s a cafe racer category, rigid frame class, pre-1983 motorcycles and the ‘Essenza – Essence of Motorcycles’ class that is open to any twin cylinder bike under 1200cc. As one of the major sponsors of the Glemseck festival Triumph Germany have seized the opportunity to compete in the Essenza class by building two rather brutal custom versions of their recently released T120 Thruxton R.

The bike you see here has been named ‘The Bulldog’ and it’s the more sinister looking Thruxton R of the pair. Aesthetically the Bulldog has an air of streetfighter about it while still retaining elements of its retro cafe racer styling. The team at Triumph Germany have discarded the Thruxton’s classically styled headlight in favour of a front fairing repurposed from their 2016 Speed Triple R. To adibe to the events ‘road-legal’ rule they’ve integrated an LED headlight into the unit that’s tucked neatly into the air ducts in its base. The menacing satin black and blood red paint scheme does wonders for the Bulldogs threatening demeanour, and there’s a colour matched seat and blacked out rims that have come straight out of Triumph’s aftermarket catalogue.

However menacing the Bulldog may appear, it’s the bikes performance modifications that should really be making its competitors nervous. Triumph have managed to generate an incredible 60% more power from their all new 1200cc, water cooled parallel twin. How is such a huge increase in power possible you ask? Well that’s simple, you just have to bolt a whopping great big blower to it.

The Bulldog’s tail end has also been cleaned up with new LED lighting and a tail tidy and the top clamp has been modified to hold nothing more than a couple LED warning lights and the ignition barrel. To help pilot the bike to victory Triumph have enlisted motorcycle critic and journalist Christophe Lentsch. All of the races will be wrapping up today so if you head over to the Glemseck 101 facebook page this week you’ll be able to see how they placed.

Triumph Motorcycles have entered two stonking supercharged Thruxton R bikes in the ‘Essenza – The Essence of Motorcycles’ challenge races that take place tomorrow, September 3 at the Glemseck 101.

The first is a sleek marriage of modern racing lines with a classic T120 parallel-twin heart, the second a dark brooding retro street fighter.

‘The White Bike’ which will be ridden by Triumph Global Ambassador, Carl Fogarty, while the ‘The Bulldog’ will be ridden by Christophe Lentsch from 1000ps.

The White Bike’ gets some aerodynamic efficiency from its Daytona 675R fairing and seat, while it also gets a braced, MotoGP-inspired swingarm has been hand-crafted in the factory and revised gearing helps to feed the power to the tarmac.

‘The Bulldog’ is more brutal. It also gets a deep-braced swingarm, with the front dominated by a custom Speed Triple R intake fairing, repurposed to house the LED front lights. Final detail touches include the factory-accessory seat and matching factory-accessory black wheels.

I wouldn’t mind slinging my leg over the damn thing and see what its all about thats for certain.