TOMMY RIDE 2025
Date: Friday 27th June – Sunday 29th June 2025
Distance: Approx 130 Miles across two days
Location: Aylesford, Kent to Ypres, Belgium.
Sign up fee: £550. £100 Deposit, Remaining balance due 20th April 2025
Fundraising target: £1000
For team entry please email [email protected]
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RIDE TO YPRES TO SUPPORT RBLI
Tommy Ride will start at RBLI’s HQ, in Aylesford, Kent finishing at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium.
Included in your entry fee: accommodation for two nights, ferry crossings, dedicated support from RBLI’s events team, RBLI cycling jersey, lunches and refreshments en-route, a celebratory Tommy Ride meal on the final night and Tommy Ride 2025 medal. Our professional ride captains, support vehicles, motorcycle outriders, medics and mechanics will all ensure you have a memorable time with great camaraderie, food and pit stops.
Ways to get involved
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Some Of Our Past Riders
RBLI’s Tommy Ride is a very well organised and friendly event. It was lovely to meet the RBLI team and be so welcomed into the group. The ride leaders did a fantastic job and kept everyone safe and in line. The hotels were lovely and crossings were very pleasant. It was fantastic to see everyone pull together as a group and cheer all the riders on.
Ronnie Welling
Tommy Ride 2024 Participant
I would just like to say how much I enjoyed the whole event, being my first ever charity ride, and how welcoming and joyful it was to be involved with the RBLI organisation and hearing about the wonderful things you do for our veterans, a great and worthy cause. I thought the whole event organisation and support we received, from RBLI, the ride captains, support motorcyclists, medic and mechanic was exceptional and of course the whole team effort who kept us safe and fed along the way. The accommodation and forward planning around bike storage, baggage transfers and final dinner were all superb also. All in all, a great experience and well done to everyone involved, definitely enrolling for next year.
Simon Ellis
Tommy Ride 2024 Participant
WHO YOU’RE SUPPORTING
Tirtha is one of six former soldiers who served with the Brigade of Gurkhas who works in RBLI’s factory. Tirtha joined the British Army in 2005, and in his seven-year service undertook two tours of Afghanistan. On his second, in 2010, clearing improvised explosive devices from he was caught in the blast and severely injured, losing his left leg above the knee.
In 2012 RBLI gave him what he calls his second chance. He has since established himself as leader of the signage team in the factory and has been able to move with his wife and two children to a new home outside the village in nearby Maidstone. ‘Being here,’ he says, ‘is like a family.’
