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A motorbike featuring in the new James Bond film will be visiting a children's ward at a Kent hospital.
The Triumph bike which appears in No Time To Die will be joined by Chris Pratt's motorbike from Jurassic World and Tom Cruise's machine featured in Mission Impossible 3.
They will be brought down in December to Darent Valley Hospital's Willow Ward as part of a dad's fundraising event.
Michael Maddox, 31, from Crockenhill Village near Swanley, said: "How amazing would it be for people to say they sat on James Bond's bike."
Patients from the ward will be invited to sit on the bikes alongside a £500,000 special edition Lamborghini.
Starting off as just a few bikes from his local club, Michael has been in contact with the Triumph Factory Visitor Museum who will be providing the Hollywood motorbikes for the children.
The civil servant added: "It has spiralled into something a lot bigger than I imagined."
The bikes will be taken down to the hospital on December 11 for the children along with gifts.
The father has organised a Halloween fundraiser prior to this to help buy toys and equipment the ward needs.
His son, Francis, who is nearly nine months old was born just before Christmas last year and was in and out of hospital for around four months.
He said: "My son was on the ward for the first few months of his life for a week at a time and he was looked after so well by the nurses there."
The Maddox family wanted to do something to raise money for the ward to show their appreciation.
Michael and his wife Giulia are hoping to raise £500 at their Halloween event to buy the gifts needed and will then surprise the children with them at Christmas along with a motorbike experience.
The fundraiser will take place on October 31 from 5pm to 8.30pm on Church Road, Crockenhill Village with mazes created and set up by the family.
They have run these mazes for about four or five years and in the past have raised £350 for Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance service.
