About Ride FAR
In 1989, thirteen of us rode our bikes 100 miles a day for 5 days to raise $30,000 for people living with HIV/AIDS. Ride FAR was the country"s first HIV/AIDS bike-a-thon. At the time, there were 127,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, 5 million worldwide.
None of us ever thought HIV/AIDS would go on to infect 39 million. Or kill 25 million people. Or decimate a generation of Africans.
Back in our twenties, thirties and forties, if you had told us we"d be doing Ride FAR in our forties, fifties and sixties, we wouldn"t have believed you.
We believed there would be a cure. And a vaccine. We believed there would be universal access to both.
You have to believe to do Ride FAR. It takes everything you have to train and fundraise intensively all summer"it takes your summer, every other summer, and we believe it"s worth it.
Nobody on Ride FAR 1 dreamed that our little ride would amass and redistribute over $950,000 to HIV/AIDS service organizations (with no budget, no paid staff or advertising). Join us this year as we make it over a million.
Special thanks to: Catie Curtis, Chris Smither, Circle of Friends Coffeehouse, Dick Pleasants, Fyfe Design, Global Fitness Center, Harvest Cafe, Jenn Fernandes, Kris Delmhorst, Landry's Bicycles, Plum T-shirts, the Provincetown Inn, Slab Media, South Shore YMCA Camps, the Stone House Club, the 200 Foundation, and Young Hunter Management.