so a last minute raffle draw to raise some funds for the belgium boys has yielded some great results. in about a week, we managed to sell 228 tickets between the online sales, coffee shop sales and jason just hassling everyone he knows. the raffle was drawn tonight using our tried and true technique of getting two young kids who can’t read to pick the tickets out of a container. this way they can’t cheat as they don’t know who they are getting. the eleven winners are listed below and we will soon be in contact with you so that you can claim your prizes. the link to the video footage can be seen below, for verification of the process.
- a set of dura-ace 7850-SL wheels – Peow Lim
- a set of Illuminator 1000 Lumen valued at $170 from nitelight. – Shun Fong
- a 1 night stay at Boshack valued at $250 in one of the ‘Glampers’ – Glamourous Camping – Tom Barratt
- a Limar 650 bike helmet (size L) valued at $80 from Canning Bridge Cycles – Kevin Cheong
- a front and back frog strobe light set valued at $46 from knog – David Wilding
- a pair of goat skin gloves with f… off on them (size S) valued at $47 from knog – Ant Hollib
- a cycling cap valued at $20 and t-shirt (ladies size XXL) valued at $20 from knog – Shun Fong
- a football signed by david wirrpanda courtesy of the west australian newspaper – Shun Fong
- a carboshotz nutrition pack (gels, bars and tablets) and bottle from carboshotz – Laurie Crock
- a set of porno patches and stickers of indiscriminate value from knog – Greg Bargmann
- a set of porno patches and stickers of indiscriminate value from knog – Richard Williams
but wait there was a redraw. a quick phone call to Peow to congratulate him and he said that he only runs campag and he is willing to donate the wheels back in for a redraw. this can be seen below on the video footage, but our very deserving winner was none other than Mr Bonner himself. after his incident with the cat last week, he was in need of some new wheels and these will fit the bill.
- a set of dura-ace 7850-SL wheels – Mike Bonner
i would just like to again thank all our generous sponsors for their support and also Peow for his generosity in allowing us to redraw the wheels. through this and the tour tipping comp we managed to raise over $2000 to help our guys get over to belgium. all three are flying on thursday, so we wish them good luck.
Wow! $2000 is a lot for beer and frites!
Good luck gentlemen! Go show em’ what South Perth Rouleurs are made from!
Just remember to drink the beer and eat the frites AFTER the race!
Allez SPR!
Thanks Peow (bigtime) and thanks Ben – this Thursday has turned out much better than last week’s edition. We all leave on Saturday for the race (otherwise we wouldn’t be here) so we will be out and about over the next couple of days, weather permitting.
A big thank you to Yas as well for checking the bike over thoroughly after my slide and fitting the new handlebars and seat post. The front wheel was a write-off, so the raffle prize (you too, Jason) is very timely.
Cheers to everyone who donated and bought tickets in the raffle. We’ll be doing our very best in Stavelot (Belgium) to finish prominently in our fields, but really we’ve got no idea how strong the European and American competition will be. To keep it in perspective, we’ll be riding on 9/11 (10th anniversary).
Yea. Go for (green and) gold guys!
Thanks for all the support guys- as Mike said we all fly Sat (Chris and I in the morning and Mike in the evening).
A great outcome of the raffle- congrats to Mike for winning- very timely- an even bigger thanks to Peow for donating them back. And of course thanks to Pete for your time and effort. Thanks SPR
Nerves… 🙂
Thank you to all the SPR family for your support! Special thanks to Pete for organising and also to Jason for selling so many tickets! It will be a privilege to don the SPR jersey for some training rides over in Belgium.
Good to see come good karma come back Mike B’s way to compliment his good form.