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
1st 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.
25th 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