Gollobski wins!!

Henshaw throws down the gauntlet by being the first team member to actually buy his bike.

Speaking to CNN Henshaw, A handsome 38, said "It was only a matter of time, I decided to take the bull by the horns and go for it. Its going to be along walk for the other 2"

1998, C90 Honda bought for £360, Ebay, Class!!!
Gollobski Celebrates the first step of the dream with his friend Guinness!

Trueman discovers cure for Rash in shed

Meeting minutes for 21st Jan 2009.

Held in Pauls office, followed by long walk to canteen.

Evil Yellow stuff in picture is apparently

Cauliflower cheese although I
could not locate any cauliflower

Things are moving on pretty quickly now with the website up and running (Finally!!) and the various links to the pledge page, meet the riders etc being worked on. Williams' estimated the time for completion as "Before the London Olympics" Based on how long this has taken to date he needs to get a move on.

Gareth Knox has a lunch date with Mr Charley Boorman (He of Long way down / round / Up / Across fame) this Saturday and has kindly agreed to take a T shirt and intro letter - Cheers

Al " I have found us bikes lads" Truemon (The world famous spelling mistake) then rudely interupted the meeting by answering a personal call to his boss!!

This gave Henshaw and the resident cripple (Williams) chance to discuss Trufants loyalty. Williams also expressed concern at how Al is a tightwad and questioned his sexual leanings citing a story he had seen written on a toilet wall in a service station just outside Barnsley.

Following the "interlude" (as it shall be known) for Al's call we had our first team arguement, strangely enough about the aforementioned telephone call.

Other items for discussed:

• Date is now definitley 1st week of May to coincide with Tandragee 100
• Decision made on Al's role - To dig all toilets with folding shovel and to spend as much time as possible feeling his moobs (Man + Boobs = Moobs)
• Become the first 3 people to pledge money
• Williams cannot pray for fine weather because he cannot bend his hands into the Prayer shape
• Al has wimped out on riding bike to Pauls before they both ride to Rob's to officially start, this based on an estimated 6 hour ride from Hinkley to Buckley via Wem.
• In an extensive search Al has located 4 x Honda C50's, a Piaggio 60cc and an old Austin Princess - Hmmmm good work
• Suggested page on web site for people to log on and suggest practical jokes we can play on each other, results of jokes will be reported back real time during the trip
• Discussion took place on spares list and emergency items.
• Discussion stopped after we decided spares list and emergency items are 1) A hammer and 2) Some Gaffa tape
• Al will take a fishing rod to aquire our evening meals

T shirts will be ready for collection tomorrow so a mad day of driving around the country will follow making sure Mr Boorman has his to wear with pride.

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Web Site

The new Chasing Chickens web site is up and running. Still early days on the content front but keep checking back as it will be updated regularly.

www.chasingchickens.co.uk

First Meeting of 2009

Meeting minutes 2009-01-08
Present – in Cumbath - Henshaw, Trueman,
in Wrectum – Williams

Paul ‘stop taking the piss out of my weight’ Henshaw has come up trumps with the logo. This once again proves that although Henshaw is not very good at doing anything he knows lots of people who are.

Rob ‘Face! Bothered!’ was pleased that his logo had been replaced by something that was ‘slightly better’ in a commercial, professional, if your into that kind of thing way.

We would like to thank Jackie Chan for the photo of Williams and the teams ‘lucky chickens foot’. This particular shot captures Williams practicing his various C90 riding positions, he was grateful of the photo as he had misplaced his posing mirror.


For those that don’t know Jackie Chan we have included a photo below for reference. He has been a great help to the team and here we see him testing early prototypes for Team Chickens uniform. We are not sure who the other guy is in the photo but we would like to thank him for testing the impact resistance of the suits by punching Chan in his obviously padded trouser region.


The inclusion of the chicken’s foot photo sparked a discussion over the usefulness of animal appendages. Henshaw commented that he could take a Bison’s c*ck and no one argued.


NEWS FLASH*****!!!!! Truman ‘you guys get on with it’ has said he is going to do something!!!!

Trueman’s revelation started this way…’I met a bloke in a pub’ this then turned out to be 3 blokes that he took outside. Turns out that one of these, let’s just call them groomers for now, buys and sells C90’s. He does them up and flogs them on for a very reasonable price. Truman has committed to do what ever it takes to get a deal off the guy (s). Henshaw and Williams would like to thank him for his commitment…we would do the same for you Al, probably.

In these minutes we have also decided to include for the record the original plan across Europe. Below is the map of the proposed 7,000 Mile route. Looking back at the picture now one of the most striking features of this map is how wide spread the Roman influence has been across Europe. The trip was looking shaky due to Henshaw’s weak bladder, and was finally shelved when he said ‘you know I can speak French don’t you?’.

Despite the fact that we want to enjoy ourselves we do occasional take things seriously and you will be please to know that we have actually made some decisions….and here they are

The trip will start on Friday 1st May getting the early morning ferry over.
Day one is to include the http://www.tandragee100.com/
Charity has now been changed to www.unicef.org.uk
Paul wants to avoid going over during the North West 200 on the 12th because he has ‘other friends you know!’
Please please please support us

The training begins in earnest 2009 (Earnest is a consenting adult by the way)

Let’s just consider the facts for a second.

1st - A Honda C90 develops (when new) 4.5bhp at the rear wheel!

2nd - It has a top speed of about 45mph or 30mph with Paul 'I have lost so much weight that I can see my man parts' Henshaw (from now on to be known as PIHLSMWTICSMMP as it rolls of the tongue better) in the pilots seat.

3rd - The coastline of Ireland is about 3500 miles (3500/45 = 78 hours riding or a 38 hour later ferry if you are PIHLSMWTICSMMP)

Finally - our 3 intrepid adventures are slightly less than fit. There is Williams who needs oiling periodically (not in a gay way), Henshaw who sounds like Ivor the engine when he breaths and Truman...well we are not sure about Truman’s fitness as we have never seen him do anything.

There was nothing else to be done but use up a new year’s resolution and start training. Once again Henshaw and Williams (the one with a chickens foot for a hand) showed their commitment early this morning (too early) while Alun ‘you guys get on with it' Truman stayed in bed.

Now if you speak to Truman he may cite evidence such as 'they never told me they were going' or 'I don’t live anywhere near North Wales' as reasons for his absence on the trek up Mount Moel Famau. Both of which are true but I have just one word for you Truman...Charity!

Back to our training. The idea, as most of team chicken ideas do, came from too much alcohol, this one during the post Xmas, pre new year’s lull. Why not get up early, and go for a bit of a walk somewhere? A reasonable idea that was later molested by Henshaw in an attempt to justify his slightly odd obsession with mountaineering stories, into, why not get up bloody early when it is really F*ckin cold and slippy and find a big hill (ed: Mountain) to climb. While we are on the subject the definition of a mountain is over 2000 feet. Despite me standing on Henshaws shoulders when we got to the top with a pebble on my head...it’s still only a hill!)
Henshaw got up (he says) at 5am in the morning to drive from Wem to North Wales arriving at 7.45am. A distance of 39 miles making an average speed, if his set off time is to be believed of 14mph. From this simple piece of maths we can propose 2 possibilities. Either Henshaw is full of Sh*t or he was practicing for the mind numbingly low average speed he will attain around Ireland on his C90.

Anway, enough writing, just to prove that we did it hereare a selection of photos below of our hike. It was about 5 miles and we were knacked so it doesn't look good for the ride around Ireland (please sponsor us).

The start of the trip, as with most things we get into, you can tell we have our sh*t together

Henshaw sitting down (this happend a lot)

Williams showing that break dancing is cool even in the 21st century as 1800 ft

Henshaw showing that the Fonz is cool even in the 21st century at 1800 ft. Heyyyy!!!

Told ya

Williams demonstrating that 'treking' is possible even with one leg longer than the other

The wind was very strong at 1822 ft

This photo is unexplainable


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