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Rally Around the World for Childhood Cancer Research will take place July - September 2012 as a solo, around-the-world motorcycle ride to support Rally Foundation's mission of empowering volunteers to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research

Rally Around the World for Childhood Cancer Research will take place July - September 2012 as a solo, around-the-world motorcycle ride to support Rally Foundation's mission of empowering volunteers to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research

Great photos in black and white of a trip from UK to Europe in 1953.
The author writes:
"I have now been informed that so many modern foreign bikes ridden by smartly dressed English riders would have been quite a sight on Europe's roads. They would ride through France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. We think of old bikes as being unreliable, but my father and his friends were keen riders and engineers and completed the trip without much more than a puncture. The bikes that took part in the trip were:
GAU 856 Brough Superior SS100 with fuel in the loop sidecar.
AHC 650 Triumph Thunderbird. He bought this one on 22nd July 1950 for £219 16 9 and by the day they set off in July 53 - it had done 24,900 miles.
KBY 571 Sunbeam and VMM 871 Sunbeam."

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