Smellybikers Ride
I'd dreamt of riding around the world ever since I first got on a bike, even though my first minutes on two wheels ended with a bike sized hole in the neighbours fence, but thats another story.
I was twelve when I rode through our neighbours garden but life has a way of keeping you on your own side of the fence. A good job, mortgage, the kind of stuff you're supposed to spend your life doing before retiring and expiring a few years later.
Nuts to that. I sold everything, gave my cat to a neighbour and started chasing my dream. That was back in November 2003 and I'm still doing it. If I'd known then what I know now I would've started earlier, maybe at twelve-and-a-half.
 As well as wandering the world I'm also raising funds for MAGPAS, a registered charity that supports the UK Ambulance Service. In 1992 they scraped my dad off the road after a bad accident and saved his life.
You can help support MAPGAS by visiting their website and making a donation, tell them 'Smellybiker sent you !' 
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The Wanderlust GPS Maps
If you have a Garmin GPS receiver I bet you *really* enjoy paying a fortune for maps ! Here's an alternative.
I managed to drop my bike in Brazilian river, no big deal for the bike but all my Garmin CD's were soaked & destroyed, after trying for ages to get replacements I started looking at ways to make my own.
Thanks to a *lot* of help from friends all over the world, the WanderLust Worldmap was born in September 2006.
The maps are built from public domain and donated data, covering the whole world - more detail than Garmin's equivalent product and more regularly updated as well.
The project is now being opened up allowing members to add their own data, tracks & waypoints, which improves the maps and allows members to make their own things.
Membership costs GBP 25.00 and includes all updates for 12 months, an extra 12 months membership costs GBP 10.00
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