UKBike.com do a lot of good work for charity

Here's news from Boyd showing a real tangible benefit to UKBike's sponsorship of annual biking event Brightona...

Recently I attended a presentation at Brighton Hospital which was the formal hand over of the equipment that was purchased from the proceeds generated at Brightona 2007.

(l to r) Abi Golding – principal organier and founder of Brightona, Boyd, Terry Ayres who runs the Sussex Heart Trust and Matt Barnard committee chairman and organiser.
(comedy captions welcome! Ed.)

The equipment is in simple terms a sonic scalpel. This enables the surgeons to cut the epidermis of the patient allowing entry on a keyhole basis without loss of blood. This parts the skin and seals the wound at the same time unlike a laser equivalent that does the same thing but sears the wound to prevent bleeding. The sonic device enables quicker healing and results in less scarring as it parts the skin not cuts it. From what I can gather it’s an English invention which the yanks have taken up and developed into a working device, though it would appear that they are unable to use until seven years of testing etc has been completed. Litigation issues I should imagine. (Apparently it’s OK to sell back to us Europeans to use prior to the elapse of the seven year period- guinea pig anyone?).

So basically it’s a sci-fi Dr. Who device.

It saves money, reduces collateral damage and requires less blood transfusions whilst operation is ongoing and is unique to Sussex.

And whilst on a UKBike.com tip, January saw a record month for traffic figures to the site, with more visitors, uniques and impressions than ever before.

There were 92,532 visits in Jan 08, compared to 34,096 in Jan 07.