Thanks Camelman for the considerations, really appreciate it.
Thanks Craig for the support, I see I got your first post - nice one!

Thanks Dwerg for the support bud, as far as t-shirts and fund raising goes, I'm gonna need to lots of that but I want to finish Merzouga first so I know I'm in for definite. Then I will get the fundraising going. Before then I'm just another oke with a dream. However in the meantime any suggestions would be appreciated, I've never done this sort of stuff before so I'm all ears. I thought buffs and beanies might be a good idea as they are one size fits all and would make ordering easy.
Also I need to get a logo for "From Para to Dakar" to use on the stuff and bike so if anyone has got some skills and would be keen to give it a bash we can vote on the best one together. An idea I had is a spine looks a lot like an offroad tyre track so something with that might work. I will put it up on the Facebook page as well and see if anyone there can help. Sorry it will only be for bragging rights as trying to do this all for as cheap as possible naturally.
Also please give the Facebook page (from para to Dakar) a like as I will post stuff there as well. Naturally I will try to be more in depth and technical here the sort of stuff okes that ride actually want to know.