{"id":810,"date":"2012-02-14T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T16:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2012-02-20T09:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T09:33:53","slug":"adventure-day-at-the-ace-win-a-motorcycle-care-hamper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/adventure-day-at-the-ace-win-a-motorcycle-care-hamper\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure day at The Ace &#8211; Win a motorcycle care hamper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ace Special Breakfast by mattcashmore, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/514528871\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/219\/514528871_66ca278764_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"Ace Special Breakfast\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>What could be more fun? A breakfast at The Ace along with a bunch of my \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/5799005429\/in\/set-72157626888463630\" target=\"_blank\">mates<\/a> and every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sam-manicom.com\/\">adventure biker of note<\/a> this side of Mongolia &#8211; well those that are in the country in any case.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what awaits me on Sunday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ace-cafe-london.com\/default.aspx\">The Ace Cafe<\/a> in North London as I attend the <a title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ace-cafe-london.com\/event_view.aspx?event_id=50&amp;date=19\/02\/2012%2000:00:00\" target=\"_blank\">Overland &amp; Adventure Travel Bike Day<\/a>. The day kicks off at 9am and I&#8217;ll be there from around 6am helping Les set up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traveldriplus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Traveldri Plus<\/a> stand. I can&#8217;t wait to show off the XT on the stand and explain to everyone why I have a rubber mat on my seat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be announcing the winner of the 2012 most inspirational travel book awards (<a title=\"Vote for your 2012 most inspirational Travel Book\" href=\"http:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/vote-for-your-2012-most-inspirational-travel-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">voting closes on Friday so go vote now<\/a>). In true thelondonbiker style I also have some stuff to give away.<\/p>\n<p>Motorcycle Direct &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycledirect.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">bike insurers<\/a> &#8211; have given me two hampers to give away. The first is a valentine&#8217;s week special &#8211; this is your get out of jail free card &#8211; if you&#8217;ve left the Mrs behind to get to the Ace and play with your mates &#8211; head home with this to calm the waters. The hamper has:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Charlemagne Rose Sparkling (5.5%) 75cl<\/li>\n<li>Marshmellows for Fondue 175g<\/li>\n<li>Guylian Belgian Chocalate Dip 150g<\/li>\n<li>Maximacs Indulge Yourself Butterscotch CVlusters 90g<\/li>\n<li>Traou Mad de Pont-Aven Savoury Mini Crepes with Mozzarella &amp; Bacon 60g<\/li>\n<li>Pink Champagne Candle in Tin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5270\/5799561004_607288f1bd_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" alt=\"Adventure Travel Film Festival 2011\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/>There&#8217;s also a second hamper &#8211; I got the guys over at Motorcycle Direct to throw this one in as I thought it very unfair that only the ladies were being catered for. In the blokes hamper you&#8217;ll get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk\/motorcycle_parts\/content_prod\/65476\" target=\"_blank\">Motorcycle Gift Card \/ Voucher &#8211; \u00a310<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\" http:\/\/www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk\/motorcycle_parts\/content_prod\/63345\" target=\"_blank\">Spark plug maintenance set<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk\/motorcycle_parts\/content_prod\/76911\" target=\"_blank\">28 piece under seat tool kit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk\/motorcycle_parts\/content_prod\/74258\" target=\"_blank\">Bike It Basic Metal Tax Disc Holders<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to win these hampers &#8211; I&#8217;ll have them with me on the day &#8211; all you need to do is find me and say at the top of your voice &#8216;<em>These BMW jobs are crap!<\/em>&#8216; See, easy. First person to find me and say these magic words after 9am gets both hampers there and then &#8211; can&#8217;t say fairer than that.<\/p>\n<p>See you on Sunday!<\/p>\n<p><strong>And the winner was: Alex Richards from London! Congratulations Alex and I hope you other half enjoyed the bubbles and chocolate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/426673_10150540640277062_657852061_9209260_951044770_n.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-813\" title=\"426673_10150540640277062_657852061_9209260_951044770_n\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/426673_10150540640277062_657852061_9209260_951044770_n.jpg?resize=604%2C403\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/426673_10150540640277062_657852061_9209260_951044770_n.jpg?w=604&amp;ssl=1 604w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/426673_10150540640277062_657852061_9209260_951044770_n.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could be more fun? A breakfast at The Ace along with a bunch of my \u00a0mates and every adventure biker of note this side of Mongolia &#8211; well those that are in the country in any case. That&#8217;s what awaits me on Sunday at The Ace Cafe in North London as I attend the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/adventure-day-at-the-ace-win-a-motorcycle-care-hamper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adventure day at The Ace &#8211; Win a motorcycle care hamper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced-riding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}