AN OKEHAMPTON motorcycle enthusiast has generously donated his prize-winning customised motorbike worth around £5,000, for auction to raise money for a charity aiming to provide state-of-the-art neurosurgery equipment.
Cameron Slater from Okehampton, 41, was moved to offer to donate the bike to the Cavitron Fund after speaking to Okehampton fund-raiser Edna Hicks. The fund?s appeal is to keep Derriford Hospital at the cutting edge of brain surgery.
Edna became involved in the charity?s campaign to secure the latest stereotactic radiosurgery technology for patients living in the South West following the death of her husband Rex from a brain tumour last year.
Cameron has had the bike for around five years, and has spent hundreds of hours and thousands of pounds restoring it to stunning condition in that time.
The bike is a 1977 Kawasaki Z-100, which has been customised with engraving and chrome-plating. It recently picked up the best custom bike and people?s choice awards at the Rose and Crown bike show at Sandford.
Cameron suffered a brain haemorrhage himself six years ago and said he was happy to make the generous offer to support the charity?s appeal for vital equipment to treat brain tumours with pinpoint accuracy and greater speed.
?The way I look at it, you can always go out and work and earn money, but if you can help save someone?s life, that is more important,? he said.
Cameron is hoping his bike will raise as much money as possible for the Cavitron Fund and will go to a good owner. ?It is a lovely bike, for a motorcycle enthusiast it would be a great buy,? he said.
Cameron will present the bike to the charity at a presentation at the Countryman at Sampford Courtenay next week.