What a great Saturday August 27th was here at Streetbike…

So what went on then...
A few weeks ago we where approached by Russell’s’ Hall Hospital's Make a Wish team about a girl called Emma whose secret wish is to "Ride a Yamaha Motorbike".

 
Emma with her Mum and little bro…

Naturally we said we could help and, thanks to Steve in Training, Yamaha UK and you guys we arranged a really special day for her…

First up, Emma is old enough, and we’d checked with her doctors at Russells Hall, because we realised we could let her ride a Yamaha on her own in our training park out back.

So - after a quick safety briefing from Steve – she was off…



…and she was really good – so good we quickly arranged another surprise for her for later in the day…






Much as the Yamaha Giggle is well, a giggle – we were pretty sure Emma’s idea of a dream ride on a Yamaha involved something a little bit bigger…



So for the next part of the day Steve took her out for a two hour ride around some of the brilliant biking roads not far from us here at Streetbike…

Meanwhile back at base we’d been asking on Facebook & Twitter for as many Yamaha riders as possible to turn up to welcome her back…



Many Thanks to all those who did, despite the fact it rained for the entire hour before she came back !

As a thanks to those who did brave the weather and cheered her in, we asked her to pick her favourite Yamaha from those in the car park. Congratulations to Chris as she loved his blue YZF-R125 so he won the 10 years of Vale at Yamaha coffee table book.



But we hadn’t quite finished yet – we had a few presents from us and from Yamaha UK to help her remember her special day…

She really loved the jacket we’d given her to wear – imagine how thrilled she was when we let her keep it !!!

Plus many thanks to Yamaha UK who had sent up a really special goodie bag for her with 2 x coffee table books, a couple of bags, pens, stickers, mug, DVD and, a proper Yamaha race shirt.

AND – if that wasn’t enough, remember how we said she did really well on her taster session in the training ground…

We gave her a CBT training course as well…

Thanks to everyone who helped to make Emma’s wish come true…

Her Mum said on Facebook afterwards…

“I can't thank Streetbike enough for today. I haven't seen Emma smiling so much in a long time.”

PLUS…
Long time customer Mike played live all day and Chris, our Recovery Manager, set up his Karaoke and sang all to raise money for McMillan Cancer Support...



Thanks to those of you who dumped some money in the buckets and joined in the fun. We’re going to rattle the buckets again on Guy Martin Night this Wednesday – let see if we can fill ‘em ‘cause McMillan are such a good charity.

SO…
That was it - a day of giving here at Streetbike. Thanks to everyone who came along and supported these two great worthwhile events…

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