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Come join thousands of your motorcyclist friends and help us help the medical research community find the cause and the cure of childhood brain tumors. When you ride with us side by side in that endless column of bikes, people waving at you a every turn, you know you're making a positive statement for our sport at the same time.

The Ride for Kids is all about caring, and we have placed all the information you need on this site to help you raise funds, and have fun... in this unforgettable event.

The Ride For Kids® is a motorcyclist’s program that is helping to find the cause and cure of pediatric brain tumors. The Ride For Kids® also serves as a nationally recognized educational and patient support program for patients and their families, and the medical community. Brain tumors are the most deadly of all the childhood cancers. The Ride For Kids® was started in 1984 by Mike Traynor, a newspaper executive and motorcyclist from Atlanta, GA, who had a friend whose child was stricken with a brain tumor. After watching the tragic deaths of many children, Mike set out to help find the cause and cure of this childhood killer. He solicited the support of the motorcyclists of America in raising the awareness needed to pay for research in the nation’s leading brain tumor research centers. The first event was held in Atlanta in 1984, next in Chicago in 1989, and finally after leaving his career behind in 1992 to give full time attention to the disease he was able to put the program into motion throughout the USA.

 In each case the motorcycling public, along with a significant sponsorship contribution from American Honda Motor Company’s motorcycle division, Honda dealers and other motorcycle industry companies, came to the fore to seek out donations for this research work. Millions of dollars has been raised through the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the U.S. to support the search for the cause and cure of childhood brain tumors. This is the largest non-profit source of funding for pediatric brain tumor research outside of the federal government. In addition to the money donated to various laboratories, funds of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation have been used to start and fund the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States, which is the nation’s data bank for disease and patient information.

Thanks to the efforts of the Ride For Kids® program, progress is being made in the search for the answer to this terrible affliction. Each year another step is taken forward in laboratories across America which has assisted in new and more innovative treatments for the young patients. The fact remains, however, that until the cause is isolated the prognosis of these children will continue to cast doubt on their recovery, and for those who survive, their resulting quality of life.

The non-profit foundation which operates the Ride For Kids® events across America is the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States. In 2006 the Foundation is redoubling its efforts to expand its programs across the country and invites every motorcyclist in America to join in this very needed, and always fun event. No matter where a motorcyclist lives he or shecan know that by participating in the Ride For Kids® events they will be helping both the children of their community who are, or will become brain tumor patients, and all the other children diagnosed with brain tumors throughout the USA. With the continued decrease in federal funding for brain tumor research, their efforts are even more important to the welfare of the children.

Motorcyclists of America can and will put an end to this disease, the most deadly of all the childhood cancers. What began in 1984 as one man’s quest to help these children has now become the target of thousands of caring motorcyclists across the country who work diligently to help those children by finding the answer to this terrible disease.