I need your help for a great cause

**Dial_tone** · November 16th, 2006, 03:12 PM

Okay, peeps. It's time for DT to call in some markers, not that I have any to call in. I am seriously considering participating in the AIDS/LifeCycle Bike Ride on June 3-9, 2007. It's an AIDS charity event (duh!) that entails cycling 545 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles over 6 days.

In order to do the event I not only have to bike that far...I have to commit to raising $2,500 before I can even start the ride. I work for a small company and I don't know that many people in Cali so I'm hitting up all my online homies and home-ettes. $2,500 is 100 people @ $25 each which is a lot of folks. I'm hoping a couple of you won't mind pony'ing up $75-100. I need to get an idea how many people I can count on to throw in $10-100 for a great guy busting his fat ass for an even greater cause.

I figure 30-50% of the people who say they'll help won't when the time comes so I'm hoping the numbers will add up between all the forums I visit. If I decide to ride I'll start collecting money on January 1, 2007 so you'll have five months from that date to ante up.

Who's in? Don't make me go all Rev. Al Sharpton up in here.

**Dial_tone** · December 23rd, 2006, 03:13 PM

a month later and not a single person even bothered to say good luck. Great community here.

**FitnessPhotos** · February 3rd, 2007, 08:15 PM

Hey! Sorry I missed this. Some friends here organize an AIDS ride from NC to DC every year - three days at 100 miles a day and then a 60 mile ride for the last day. Same thing as what you are doing - did you decide to do it? That would be great; seriously, they want me to go, but that some serious mileage.