We hope you and your friends, colleagues, fellow bike enthusiasts, and family members will take this opportunity to support our critical work preventing cancer and have fun along the way! Wherever you are, lead a small group or ride solo with us on in 2022 to bring the message of prevention to the forefront. Wherever there are health-minded, motivated cyclists, let’s create Less Cancer Bike Ride hubs.
June 3rd — July 4th, 2022 rides all over the country will serve as a springboard for a full month of fundraising that will help Less Cancer continue our work to educate and advocate cancer prevention to health care professionals, families, and legislators. If we’ve learned anything over the past two years, its care and information are not created equal. Additionally, we now know just how much more effective prevention and preparation can be in a health crisis than reacting and scrambling. Cancer patients for generations have been at myriad disadvantages when it comes to understanding risks, living preventative lifestyles, and having equitable access to care.
The kick off for this year’s ride will feature a concert by The Steel Wheels in Traverse City, MI on June 3rd! Please join us if you are in the neighborhood.
We’ll be raising money all month long and looking to achieve ambitious monthly mileage totals from 300 to 1,000 miles in just 30 days. You can help by asking friends and family members to contribute to your fundraising efforts and, just as importantly, getting outside and active to ride a few of those miles with you.
Just like our fight against cancer, this ride never truly ends. To stay in the loop, head to lesscancer.org to learn more about our work, follow our social channels, and become a part of our mission 365 days of the year.
Learn more about the Less Cancer Bike Ride
Less Cancer Bike Ride History
Founded by Suzi Tobias, team Less Cancer first started in 2012 when Suzi wanted to ride to Mackinaw City and do so during the famed Port Huron to Mackinac Sail Boat Race in Michigan.
Suzi started the two-day ride, to honor her friend Aileen O’Brien. Aileen fought cancer for years, yet the disease took her from her young daughters and family. After riding for two consecutive years, Suzi was joined by Less Cancer board member, journalists, and Aileen’s brother, Miles O’Brien in 2014.
The work for Less Cancer is more critical than ever as science understands that many cancers are, in fact, preventable. Less Cancer needs your support as they are solely funded at the grassroots level and since its founding has not accepted funding from the tobacco, Big Ag or chemical companies.
The work of Less Cancer needs your support so we may further work to prevent this cruel disease.
While certainly the cure is something we all want, Less Cancer has been a pioneer in shifting the focus to prevention after 100 years and countless billions of dollars on curing cancer. Today there are more incidences of cancer, not less, and the rate of cancer incidence globally is expected to increase not decrease. Since the founding of Less Cancer, the organization has been instrumental in bringing the issue to national and global attention, changing policies that work to prevent this dreaded disease. The organization founded National Cancer Prevention Day and initiated the very first United States Congressional Bipartisan Cancer Prevention Caucus.
Cyclists for Less Cancer work to raise funds and develop educational programming for global audiences. The organization has been working tirelessly to protect the public from preventable cancers since 2004.
