Blood Bikes

South West Blood Bikes receives new Blood Bike

South West Blood Bikes' Plymouth team have taken delivery of a brand-new Yamaha Tracer 900 Blood Bike, thanks entirely to the generosity of the Devonport Royal Dockyard Sport and Social Club, whose members have raised the funds and donated this bike to the charity.

This is the first of a new homologated Blood Bike developed for groups by Yamaha UK Limited.

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The superstars behind South West Blood Bikes

South West Blood Bikes is a remarkable Plymouth-based service run by volunteers who use their advanced motorcycle skills in providing an out of hours service to support NHS Trusts to transport essential urgent supplies such as blood, pathology samples, medication, medical equipment and notes and occasionally donor breast milk to the NHS hospitals and hospices throughout Devon and beyond....

Devon Freewheelers volunteers Amy and Anthony Ewens, from Plymouth.

Husband and wife volunteers from Plymouth complete virtual Land’s End to John o’ Groats challenge for Honiton-based charity

Husband and wife volunteers from a charity based in Honiton went head-to-head in a virtual challenge to walk from Land’s End to John o’ Groats for the Devon Freewheelers.

Married Anthony and Amy Ewens, from Plymouth, competed against each other in LEJOG21, to travel a distance of 874-miles, raising £150 for the Devon Blood Bikes charity.

Amy, aged 28, a Devon Freewheelers...

Devon Freewheelers: Photo shows Jessi Little in his Offwell workshop.  Credit: Devon Freewheelers

Good Samaritan mechanic works for free to keep Devon Freewheelers charity on the road

A good Samaritan motorcycle mechanic from Honiton has been working for free to keep the Devon Freewheelers on the road.

Jessi Little, owner at BJS Engineering, in Offwell, East Devon, for the last four years has waived his MOT fee for the Honiton-based charity’s motorbikes.

And when other Devon garages closed during the first Covid-19 lockdown, Jessi stayed open for the Devon...