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2011 Reid's Ride Bike-a-thon Registration & Fund-raising Home Page

Use this site to register the 7th Annual Reid's Ride Bike-a-thon in the Fight Against Cancers Striking Adolescents and Young Adults.  Team registration will again be supported.  Once registered, follow the directions for making a fund-raising page and send that link via email or Facebook to friends, family, workmates and classmates.  We've again kept fees and fund-raising affordable:  $50 to register and $125.00 minimum donation (2011 PMC Riders are exempt from the donation).  A team may pool its donation but it should average no less the $125.00 per team member.  Send your page to lots of contacts; even small donation add up quickly!
 
 For more information about this year's Reid's Ride, click here.
 
7th Annual Reid's Ride is on Sunday July 17, 2011, Rain or Shine.
 
Reid's Ride invites cyclists of all ages, casual or serious, to take the 28-mile route with us from Lynnfield High School, through six town, and into Stage Fort Park in Gloucester for an early barbeque luncheon, music, prizes, and the famous Dunkin Donuts mobile restaurant.  You choose your pace.  Some of our riders use the event as a PMC warm-up, and finish in about 90 minutes before heading out to explore more of the beautiful Cape Ann area before heading back to Lynnfield or home.  Others soak in the scenery and the company with a more leisurely pace, finishing in 2-4 hours.  Chase teams of medical and technical crews monitor the route for trouble and the route is very well marked.  Transportation for riders and bikes back to Lynnfield is available for those need it.
 
 
 

 

Reid's Ride is the main fund-raising event for the Reid Sacco Memorial Cancer Research Fund.  That Fund is dedicated to supporting clinical and scientific research into finding better treatments -- and someday a cure -- for the cancers that strike adolescents and young adults.  It is acknowledged by the medical community worldwide that this population of cancer victims has not benefitted from the advances in cancer treatment and survival rates as have other age groups.  It is a gap into which Reid and young adult cancer patients like him found themselves, willing to fight but without an army of options to help. 

Your donations are helping to close that disparity, by allowing the Fund to support innovative programs designed to make sure this age group is not left behind.

If you have any questions about the Ride or about the Fund, or any suggestions to help us make this year's Reid's Ride more fun, enjoyable, and rewarding  -- email us at reidsride@reidsaccofoundation.org.  Also, contact us by this address if you prefer to register by mail and we'll send out a registration form (remember to give us your address in your email).

 

 

Note:  You'll notice "Essex County Community Foundation" on this page and on the correspondence you'll receive about your registration or your donations.  ECCF manages the investment, tax-exempt, and administrative details of the "Reid Sacco Memorial Cancer Research Fund".  All proceeds from Reid's Ride are deposited to the Fund.  The Reid Sacco Memorial Foundation makes all decisions on which programs and projects are supported by the Fund. 

Copyright 2011 Reid R. Sacco Memorial Foundation, and the ECCF/Reid Sacco Memorial Cancer Research Fund