When you think back to the first time you rode a bike, overwhelming feelings of joy and accomplishment come to mind. That first taste of independence comes back, your self esteem rises and you remember believing that anything is possible. Many children across the globe will never have this experience, or cherish memories like these. We don’t want anyone to miss out on owning their first bike and experiencing these breakthroughs, so
Pinkbike and
Trailforks created the
Share the Ride Foundation.
Teaming up with our sponsors and distributors globally, Share The Ride raises money to bring disadvantaged children from all over the world the opportunity to share the joy of being on two wheels by providing them with bicycles, helmets and locks. Since its inception in 2013, the foundation has raised over $155,000 and brought smiles to hundreds of children around the world including the Czech Republic, India, Poland, USA, Canada, UK, Australia, South Africa, Taiwan and NZ.
Last year Share the Ride surpassed its 2016 goal and raised $45,390. Underprivileged children around the globe got to understand the immense satisfaction that owning a bike can bring. This year our goal is to raise $48,000 and distribute even more bikes globally! So put today’s coffee money towards stoking some kids out, and making their holiday season a wheely wheely good one. Visit
www.pinkbike.com/sharetheride to donate!
Once again, our industry friends have come to the table with tons incredible prizes for you to win, with more being added all the time. Here's what's up for grabs so far...
BIKE SPECS
Rear Shock:Rockshox Monarch Plus RC3
Fork: Rockshox Lyrik RCT3
Headset: Acros Bloc LOC
Rear Derailleur: SRAM GX Eagle, 12S
Derailleur Hanger: Derailleur Hanger No.26
Chain Guide: MRP V3 S3
Shifters: SRAM GX Eagle Trigger, 12S
Brakes: SRAM Guide R
Cassette: SRAM XG-1275 Eagle, 12S
Wheelset: DT Swiss EX 1700 Spline, 30 | 25mm
Tires: Maxxis Minion DHR II 2.4 | Maxxis Minion Semi Slick 2.3
Cranks: Truvativ Descendant 6K Eagle 30Z
Chainrings: 34
Chain: SRAM GX Eagle
Bottom Bracket: SRAM GXP
Stem: Race Face Aeffect
Grips: Canyon G5
Saddle SDG I-Fly MTN
Seat Post: RockShox Reverb Stealth B1
Saddle Clamp: Canyon Race Clamp
• One
Cube 2018 Reaction YM, and One Cube Prize Pack
• One
Rockshox Pike Fork
• One
Yakima Hold-up Rack
• Three
Kali Shiva 2.0 full face helmets, 2 Kali Interceptor Enduro Helmets, Two Kali Maya Enduro
Helmets.
• Two
RaceFace prize packs
• One
GT Pro Performer 29'er
• One
SRAM Eagle GX Drivetrain
• Two
Whistler Blackcomb Bike Park 5 day lift passes
• One
SRSunTour RUX or Durolux 27.5" fork
• Six
TSG Evo Skate helmets
• Two
Giro helmets Chronical and Cartel
• Three prize packs of
100% Goggles and Gloves
• Two
sixsixone Prize Packs
• Two
Alpinestars Prize Packs
• One
EVOC Enduro FR Blackline bag
• One
FSA Gradient Crankset
• One
Renthal Cockpit
• One
Schwalbe Prize Pack
• One
e*thirteen TRS+Seatpost and TRS Cassette
• Three
Dissent Labs Prize Packs
How it works• For every $5 donated between Nov 3rd, 2017 and Midnight PST of December 24th, you will earn one chance to win the Canyon Strive CF 7.0 and other listed prizes. So if you donate $25 that is 5 chances at a bunch of prizes.
• The winners will be selected from a spreadsheet using random selection.
• The winners will be notified by e-mail and asked a mountain bike related knowledge question.
• We will ship worldwide ... Customs fees and other applicable taxes will be the winner's responsibilities.
Where will your money go?• $200 is enough to buy one child a new bike and a helmet.
• We are working with community centres, schools, youth and family service programs and other established charities and foundations to identify children from low income families who will benefit from this gift.
• We are world wide.
• We aim to ensure that the children receiving these gifts are educated on basic bicycle safety and maintenance.
For more info head to pinkbike.com/sharetheride or to our Indiegogo page.
Your contribution will not only go towards a helmet and a bike but a new lease on life for a child. Donate what you can and know that you’ll be the difference between an average holiday season and a wheely wheely great one!
Interested in hosting a Share The Ride event in your community? We are always happy to hear from you - please let us know more about yourself HERE
MENTIONS: @Canyon-PureCycling / @SramMedia / @rideTSG / @KaliProtectives / @SRSuntour / @GTBicycles / @schwalbe / @AlpinestarsMTB / @GiroSportDesign / @evocsports / @ride100percent / @raceface
Indiegogo has decided to stop using PayPal sometime ago. They have a press release on their site, but it does not really say why.
I think this happened because PayPal have implemented a new algorithm that locks accounts that have received large amounts of money too fast. Sometimes they block the user access only to the money received in a certain period of time (or to the money you have in your account and have not used for a certain period of time).
Paypal has said that the reason for this is to avoid illegal transactions.
The biggest issue is that Paypal cannot be bothered and really take their time to investigate if the lock is on a real illegal transaction, or a false positive (up to a month).
One way to avoid having this issue is for the seller/GrouBuyRunner/campaigner to issue invoices for each amount (also pay a tax to paypal for each invoice issued).
But, donations based campaigns, like Share the Ride, are based on donations and do not use invoices.
I hope you have a better idea now why paypal suck.
source: I was part of 2 group buys organized through paypal and the money were locked for a month.
www.richcityrides.org/earn-a-bike-program
No personal affiliation, but great respect for what they do. Rehab used bikes for local kids. Let the kids earn their bike by working in the shop.
www.pinkbike.com/news/share-the-ride-richmond-ca-2017.html
"The winners will be notified by e-mail and asked a mountain bike related knowledge question."
In all seriousness, great cause, awesome prize!