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Continuing with the Ride To Conquer Cancer updates, The Eastern Norco crew recently took part in the Ontario version of the 2010 Ride To Conquer Cancer on June 12-13th. The ride is in its 3rd year and consists of 2 options over the two days, 200km or 200 miles…from Toronto to Niagara Falls. This years ride had 4108 participants raising 16.1 million dollars…Wooow. This is Truly the one to be at. Norco’s participation (similar to the Western version) was to be tech sponsors for the event, along with local long time supporters Gears bike shop. To top it off we were able to get Ryan Leech out for a show on the Saturday Night , He was defiantly one of the Highlights for a very captive audience in what has been nicknamed “The Woodstock Of Road Biking”
Our crew worked tirelessly for a tremendously grateful ridership all refusing to let the rain effect any of us. An event like this brings out all kinds of bikes, needing varying levels of help, our experienced staff were able to keep everyone going….4108 bikes, that’s 8216 tires to pump up….

Thanks go to Scott I , Darren B , Jeff L ,Raoul F and Ryan Leech as the Official Crew for the Day.

Kevin

Back on August 24th, a motorhome of dedicated individuals started off on the epic journey across Canada on a mission to raise money and awareness for juvenile diabetes. This is the Accu-Chek Cyclebetes Tour. Starting off in Halifax Nova Scotia and heading west the team is taking turns riding a Norco tandem bike across the country. The team is sharing the journey with those that have been affected by this terrible disease along the way.

After the bike touched the Atlantic Ocean it headed east towards the Pacific. With countless hours of preparation behind and countless hours of riding ahead the team was off.

The Cyclebetes team is now in Sudbury Ontario and making their way back home. You can follow their journey though by tracking their GPS Progress, watching their Facebook page, following them on Twitter, or reading their blog.

This is an incredible journey for a wonderful cause. Congratulations on the journey so far and good luck on the road ahead!