BMW bike launch

Hailsham-based Simon Rooksby, founder of Computers for Charities, will be visiting projects benefitting from the charity’s work when he leaves on a 5,500 motorcycle tour taking him to parts of Southern, Eastern and mainland Europe on 20 May.

The project came together following the unexpected delivery of a BMW RS1100R tourer at the charity’s Sussex base, via a Midlands dealership under instruction from an anonymous donor. Other partners that have made the trip possible include BMW and Motorrad which provided  panniers and clothing and BMW Chandlers, a local dealership, which serviced the bike to ensure it is roadworthy for the extensive journey ahead.

The long ride through parts of Eastern and Southern Europe will require an early start from Hailsham at 6 am on the Thursday morning. Simon will cross to Calais at 7am and then drive more than 700 miles to reach Milan for an overnight stop.

Simon will then head to Ancona where he will cross the Adriatic Sea on a ferry to arrive in Albania. Once there he will be visiting a children’s project in Lezhe to provide technical support and equipment updates. He will go on to visit the School of Light for two days, a project for blind children that he personally helped to set up in 2008.  And then he will take the ferry back into Italy where he will drive more than 300 miles to Turin. Once there, he will be meeting local groups seeking support from Computers for Charities .

The final leg of the tour will involve riding out to Cannes for an overnight stay and then on to Almeiria in Spain to meet local community groups seeking to develop educational programmes to aid development of local communities. Simon will stay in Almeiria for two days and will then make his way to Bilbao where he will be taking the ferry back to Portsmouth.
Simon’s full itinerary is here

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Simon