Triumph over cancer

Britain's biggest motorcycle manufacturer, Triumph, has joined forces with the Cancer.vive campaign which kicked off this month.

The campaign aims to create awareness and raise funds for cancer.

In support, Triumph sponsored 16 bikes, a back-up vehicle and a trailer for a campaigning road trip around South Africa.

The core mission of the campaign is to showcase a group of cancer survivors celebrating vitality by showing people that there is life after cancer.

The aim is to create awareness for all types of cancer, raise funds for cancer education and create support groups and structures to give hope to patients of the disease in South Africa.

Triumph is already known for its twin- and triple-engine motorcycles, including the Daytona, Street Triple and Speed Triple.

It also produces the historic Bonneville and Thruxton retro-themed models, as well as the Rocket III cruiser and Thunderbird twin-cylinder cruiser.

This year's Cancer.vive theme is the "shy" cancers - breast, cervical, prostate and testicular. These types of cancers are difficult to discuss, especially in the rural areas.

Multilingual survivors of these cancers were chosen to communicate and to reach out and share with their fellow countrymen in far-flung areas of South Africa.

The road trip started in Johannesburg on September 16 and passed through Parys and Bloemfontein, reaching Richmond, Beaufort West and then the Cape Peninsula.

The grand finale is in Cape Town tomorrow on Heritage Day.

For more information on how you can lend a hand, log on to: www.cancervive.co.za

• As for me, I will be in Soweto celebrating my heritage tomorrow with the Hoodrats Riders MCC at their annual day jol.