What´s on at the Ride-of-Smiles ?

Find some of the latest chronologig milestones and what is currently on the itinery

• the whole story would take you some very long 2 ½ years back ….maybe even longer

September 2016

23-25 th of September – the Ride-of-Smiles- Family celebrates with his closest friends

find your personal invitation soon – this is my thank you to all of you helping me along

May 2015

1^st of May 2015 – The Ride-of-Smiles starts at the Statue of Liberty - right were the Ride-of-Change-2008 ended in 2008 ---every new beginning is some other beginnings end :-)

April 2015

Registrating the bike as FÜS- RO 5 – YEAH !

Sorting out tons of bank and other paperwork , flats-, work- , transport and and and issues and details

Saying goodbye to my wonderful family, my real friends and my great staff and colleagues at the hospital, getting time pressurized and a bit nervously excited.

25^th of April departing from Frankfurt / Germany to New York City tio meet my friends Joe and Jenny Rosenberg …

taking over the bike in NYC ...

March 2015

• Booking Frankfurt Main -NEW York for 25 th of April 2015

• Translating the English homepage ( Thank you Thomas for your support!)

• Technical teaching about the GSA issues with the BMW technical mastermind Herbert Foster bei BMW Motorrad München

• 14.3.2015 Fixing the Hattech Exhaustsystem at Hatt Sommer in Ringingen / Germany

• 12.3. 2015 Handout iand taking over for the first time of the brandnew R1200 GS Adventure at BMW Motorrad München

• Mid March: Uploading the Ride-of-Smiles APP and waitig for it to pass the reviews in Google play and Apples I-store for the next 1 or 2 weeks

February 2015

App-programming continues / first demoversion expected end of February -

loaded with all Ride-of-Smiles contents

• Carsten „the Transportman“ & Friends check transports worldwide for the Ride-of-Smiles

• German homepage online

January 2015

• Flightresearch New York one way for miif d of April 2015

• many, many, many, many........phonecalls ( I love that flatline :-) ! )

• Homepage :

  • Picture of the day goes online

  • Rick putting up the CMS fpor the English homepage

• The Ride-of-Similes-App gets closer

  • binding in the charity-partners

  • programming the first Ride-of-Smiles Demo-App

• Projectremeeting at BMW Motorrad Munich

• Setting up Twitteraccount with homepageintegration

December 2014

• Relaunch of the homepage

• Integration of the GPS-Livetracking into the Homepage

• New and more functional Picture-Galleries

• Remale of the headerdesign

• Charity partners

  • Setting up mutual project-homepages and donation accounts on side of our charity partners

November 2014

• App-Programming by our Partner and friends from Vendopolis

• Redesigning the homepage with a new graphic layout

• Meetings and TO DO details with BMW-Motoorad-Staff and Responsibles

• Milestones on Routeplanning

• Bikeequipment

• Technical introduction into the bikes details by BMW Motorrad

• Vehicle documents !!

• Support, spares and logistics with it

• Bike delivery , support and transport issues

• Linking Media

• Charity partners

• Sorting out contract issues about everything involved in using brands and logos and making sure all concerns of the partners are seriously met.

• Technical solutions about checking donation scores while the Project is on the road

September / October 2014

• 7000 Km Testdriving 7000 km in 10 days on the new R1200 GSA at the Vuelta Espana 2014 – what a ride !

• Testing Equipment