Mike, Josh, Me and Craig after the first hero section.

Josh, Mike, Craig and I had a great time riding the 2011 Ride For Research in Wabeno, WI. Thank you to everyone who donated! Several folks from the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in Madison spoke to the group before the ride thanking us. Another young lady smarter than the four of us combined stopped by to talk to us at lunch.

She explained some of the early cancer detection technology she and the group were working on as well as more humane ways to treat the disease. In her words, Chemotheropy is “barbaric”. They are working on ways to stop the disease without poisoning the patient.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know your donations seem to be going to a worthy bunch.

Fueled by the knowledge we were promoting a good cause we tore off into the beautiful forests of Nicolet. There were some slimey, root and rock filled single track trails and plenty of gravel roads. We did some steam crossings, logs, deap sand and rolling trails of black dirt. Believe it or not there were no major diggers or mechanical failures.

You can see the pictures from the ride here. I attached some of Craig, Josh, Mike and myself below. I lifted a few from ADVRider.com.

Thanks again for the donations!

Me and the guys on last years ride.

This weekend I will be riding in the Ride For Research dual sport ride in Northern Wisconsin with some of my good friends. It is bound to be a weekend full of debauchery, great riding and the usual mechanical failures.

Who’s Riding?
Craig Zimmerman
Josh Vandebogert
Mike Robbins
John Adamo

For Research

The “…For Research” part of the ride is to raise money for Cancer research. The tragic fact is we have all been affected by it or will be eventually. I’ll be thinking of my Mom who died of breast cancer after a heroic, decade long fight. She “beat cancer” multiple times as it spread over the years but in the end even the strongest seem to loose this fight.

Care to donate?

The Wisconsin Dual Sport Riders goal is to raise $18,000. If you are due for a donation to cancer research please consider htting my paypal account below with a buck or two or whatever you want. I won’t judge, I’m sure everyone does plenty of donating through the course of the year. Thanks in advance!!

In return I will post up some details from the ride and who breaks down first. Some deal huh? I gotta work on closing.

More information on where the donation $ will go can be found here and found here.