A couple of chaps (David & Graham) visited our business group earlier in 2008, to tell us about an event they were going on in October. It sounded like madness but they were definately going for it!

The event is the Enduro Africa Ride for Life Rally, it’s a charity motorcycle ride in South Africa organised to raise money for African projects.  You may have heard of this one now, as 2 very special guests are taking part, none other than Princes William and Harry.
The event raises money to buy and maintain off-road motorcycles to be used by Unicef workers taking desperately need medicine to outlying areas. Sentebale, the Princes favoured charity and the Nelson Mandela fund for Children also benefit.
The race is 8 days of gruelling off-road motorcycle riding through bush and wild-country, not for the faint-hearted, I suspect.
Anyway the chaps, asked us to support them by providing T-shirts for the trip based on the banner on their website, and we were delighted to oblige. We also put the t-shirts on our website to sell a few and donate profits to the cause.
The event has just started and everyone here at Smart-Tees wishes them good rides and not too many bruises.

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update 28/10/08

Good News, we have just heard the guys made it back from the Rally safe and sound. With a few tales to tell, including rubbing shoulders with a couple of very special Royal chaps, who took part in the Ride.
I am pleased to add that our friends reached their target of £10.000 raised, a fantastic achievement!
Well done to both of you and we look forward to supporting you next year!! (LOL)

Don’t forget to checkout their blog which is soon to be updated with photos of the guilty.

T-shirts are still available for a limited period (probably until year-end) and now we are pleased to offer FREE POSTAGE to UK mainland.

Here’s a comment from David now he’s recovered and had time to think about the experience…

 Author : David aka Fat Bert
E-mail : david@thedaftwayround.com
URL :

Comment:

The hardest part I suspect was the start of day 4 - we’d endured a 13 hour ride the previous day across some fairly tough terrain - but Day 4 started at 5.30am and we had 12 hours in front of us to cover just 47 miles - now thats tough terrain

Add into that Salmonella Posioning and Dysentry - just to spice things up a bit - then sleep outdoors with just one lavatory for 80 blokes - not easy!!

The rate of attrition was quite high approx 20% of riders suffered some injury but despite broken collar bones and wrists, 77 of the 80 that started made it across the finish line

Then to cap it all - the flights and transfers back from Port Elizabeth to Tenby took a mere 30 hours - walk in the park!!

Whilst I was over there, on one of the long dusty and bumpy gravel dirt roads, I began to thinking about home, the family, my 3 nippers who got out of bed very early on that first day to wave us off from Tenby, the beach walks with my springer spaniel, Reverand James and other like-minded foaming ales - and thought about how to convey the challenge that we were facing and sum up the images that we had witnessed  at the end is the link to over 1100 photo’s taken by lots of the riders including some taken by the 2 x HRH’s - enjoy

http://s466.photobucket.com/albums/rr23/enduroafrica2008/

We were asked to supply and print T-shirts for the competition, each team member receives a goody-bag for the event including a T-shirt.
We were given a list of the logos to be included and a list of all the teams and members, these had to be designed, approved and printed within 5 days! from registration closing to the event start, PHEW! it was a challenge for us, but we did it with time to spare, thanks to our helpers by the way.

We used the very best Vapor Apparel T-shirts because they are built for sports and we knew they would take the punishment. And although the weather over here hasn’t been great like everywhere else this summer, the rain held off, and everyone had a good day.
If you fancy a go next year visit their website - www.ptcq.co.uk

 

A good customer of ours approached us to design a T-shirt for their 3-Peaks challenge this year, we were delighted to be able to come up with something special to mark the occasion.
The 3-Peaks is a challenge to climb Ben,Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon in 24 hours. AND THEY DID IT!!
A fantastic acheivement and all for our local Charity The Paul Sartori Foundation here in Pembrokeshire, Well Done guys….
 

Hi folks, This is the place where you can see real projects and work that Smart-Tees have produced, we try to take shots of all completed work, but sometimes they go out the door so fast we can’t catch ‘em.

Motopiston Colombres Rally 2007 T-shirt Frontview

mcpiston Colombres Rally 2007 t-shirt backview

We printed these T-shirts for some new friends of Smart-Tees a firm called Pembrokeshire Classics, they trade in vintage/veteran and classic motorcycles. Anyway they are regular visitors to the spanish rally and wanted something special for the 20th Anniversary event.
We took the design from the tiny fuzzy logos on the brochure, worked our magic on them and hey presto!  T-shirts to live in and they do..

The 2008 T-shirts have just gone out, with a slight change for year and colour. And they went before I could take a pic, sorry folks.

Visit the Motopiston website for more information on this annual event in Northern spain

http://www.mcpiston.com/ingles/icolombres.htm