QuadEPIC 2010 - England to Singapore

The last few weeks have been super exciting for the QuadEpic team. We have managed to gain new partners that play a huge roll in making this expedition possible. We have had our ferry ride from Hull, England - Rotterdam, Netherlands sponsored by P&O Ferries, which leaves on 1st May. We can also now safely plot and track our route with a gps system thanks to ViewRanger, who have kindly donated a Nokia 5800 handset preloaded with ViewRanger software. The QuadEpic ladies have also had a great donation from Shewee to help them pee in the time of need at potentially awkward locations along the journey.

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Parts for the trailer have been arriving too.  I promised Dan that when he arrives in England, he can help build it so I've had to hold off (which I'm finding rather hard to do so). The 2 wheels for the trailer and the 2 spare wheels also arrived from Revell which, Dan I have to confess, last week I did put the tyres on and pumped up the inner tubes which arrived from Michelin. Dan don't worry though, you still have the coupling mount and axle bar to install, and the electrics for the indicators to figure out ;) Oh and another thing I'm finding hard to hold back on from doing, as I promised the boys we will figure this out together as a team, is the placement of the sponsors logo stickers. I have a pile of them in my bed room that have been arriving constantly over the weeks for the trailer.  Everytime I see them I start developing a sticking fetish and want to start sticking them everywhere.

We have also been working on designs for promotional items such as t-shirts, leaflets, posters etc. Once we have our final designs sorted for each of them we shall be posting them on our Facebook page for you all to see and comment on. We also welcome Anne from Calgary, Canada to our family. Anne will be joining us during the Dubrovnik - Thessaloniki stage, you can read more about her at http://www.quadepic2010.org.uk/riders.html .  While you're there why don't you check up on the other riders if you haven't already.

As far as training goes, I wont lie, I need to pick up the pace.  I've been slacking lately due to bad weather and personal events (cousins Stag "long" weekend) but I will be hard at it again over the next few days to lose my newly formed beer belly (pizza, kebab and beer consumed over "long" Stag weekend).