A two-hour Police marshalled ride through London! 
http://www.unityride.co.uk (Please register!)
Below please find a quoted post from the Unity Ride website/forum, http://unityforum.unityride.co.uk/cgi-bin/…?act=ST;f=2;t=6 , as posted by STEM (Steve Marsh). Everyone is urged to join the ride, and those who think they may be competent to be Unity Support Riders (officially assisting the Police) and available on Sunday July 1st from 09:00 at the Ace for assessment by the Bikesafe team please email (preferably) or PM me ASAP. If you are a member of other biker groups, please pass the word on, we want this to work for all sorts of reasons!
At last! We can announce the Unity Ride will go ahead on 19th August.
Unity II is to be a fun charitable event, creating a positive fitting memorial.
We will start the ride at the Excel Conference Center (East )
and we will finish at the Ace Cafe. The ride will be primarily a charity event consisting of marshalled satellite rides from Boxhill, High Beech, the Ace Café, Oakdene Café, Poole, Portsmouth and a few others not yet confirmed, to the Assembly Point at Excel East followed by a ride through central London controlled by Sgt Paul Mostyn and the Mets BikeSafe team
The Charities.
There will be a £5 registration fee which will go to ‘Help a London Child’, ‘Children in Need’ and The Unity Foundation.
We will sell t-shirts and memorabilia online and on the day, which should raise additional monies.
The Ride.
The route has been planned and this will be the most extensive ride undertaken through London and should take about 2 hours to complete and will pass through most of the major London landmarks enroute to The Ace.
The Sights of London on the Unity Ride Route
London City Airport
Thames Barrier
The Dome
Canary Wharf
Lime House Link
Tower of London
Embankment
London Eye
Houses of Parliament
Downing Street
Whitehall
Trafalgar Square
Aldwych.
St. Clement Danes Church
Fleet Street
St Pauls
The Bank / Mansion House.
The Monument
The Gerkin
London Bridge
City Hall
Tower Bridge
Unlike Unity I, we (or anyone else) can no longer marshal the ride in the manner we did before. Instead we have had to develop a scheme to train riders to a standard that is acceptable to the police; The Unity Support Riders (USR’s). These will have taken First Aid Training, Slow and Group Riding Skills Training and a Police assessment.
We will this time utilize not only the motorcycle press but also the national and local media to promote the ride and encourage the public to come on to the streets in support of the Unity riders.
So here is what happens next.
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If you want to be involved in any aspect of the ride, you need to PM us and make yourself available and then register here on the Unity Ride website. The forum is where all parts of the Unity Ride are open to discussion or at least viewed, depending on your registration status.
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We are approaching bikers from all groups to become part of the Organising Team but we are also going need everyone to contribute in some way, whether it be stewarding the post ride event, making a few phone calls, raising a few quid via sponsors, using your work skills or just giving your opinion.
We can do this!
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