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BIKE MS to benefit the multiple sclerosis Society

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MS 150 / BIKE MS One hundred rides. One destination.

 

These fully supported rides not only connect you to more than 100,000 other riders but also to a growing movement to end multiple sclerosis. MS stops people from moving - together, we can make sure it doesn't.

I hope you will find this lens a unique and useful resource for your BIKE MS experience. Learn about what other cyclists are doing and unique ways to energize your fundraising, motivate your team & inspire yourself!  

 



So grab a cup of coffee & take a look around and while you're here check out Buttons of Hope and consider making a custom photo button to wear in support of a loved one during your 2008 MS 150 and at your event!

Official BIKE MS website 

Handy links for your ride...

Where to ride?
With more than 100 unique rides across the nation, you can find the ride that's just right for you.
Top fundrasing teams 2006!
Some amazing numbers -- team Anadarko $343,037 and more...
Thinking about being a team captain?
Everything you need to lead the effort to end MS.

Honor a loved one fighting ms. Make your own Custom Photo Button to wear in the ms 150 BIKE ms 2008 

To the world it may be just a button, but to one person that button may be the world!

Try something new this year! Honor a loved one or support a friend battling ms by wearing a custom photo button with their picture on your 2008 BIKE MS fundraising ride.

Buttons of Hope


  1. No Minimum - make one button if you like

  2. Upload a photo and add custom curved text

  3. $1 from each button donated to the National multiple sclerosis Society

Energize your fundraising...Motivate your team... and Inspire yourself! Put a face on your cause.

Absolutely everything you need to know about cyling from David Fiedler! 

Whether it's your first BIKE MS event or you are a MS150 Bike Tour veteran - David's posts at About.com are interesting and informative. This is really good stuff!

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Julie Stachowiak, PHD at About.com 

Even before my diagnosis and since finding out that I had MS, I have spent many anxiety-filled hours looking for information about the symptoms I was experiencing. It is my goal to help people find answers to their questions.

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I'm curious about You & the MS 150 / Bike MS events 

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What am I thinking? Michael Gibbons' Behind the Button blog 

Inspired stories about the people behind the photo buttons we make & some thoughts on fundraising and charities.

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GREAT FINDS! 

Stuff I stumbled upon about the MS 150 / BIKE MS and mutiple sclerosis

MS Frico to Ft. Worth
Another Lone Star Chapter MS 150 Series is fast approaching and we're geared up to recognize those cyclists and teams who ride 450 miles toward a world free of MS.

Sign up to ride in all three 2008 Lone Star Chapter MS 150s - the SAM'S CLUB MS...
National MS Society : Momentum: The Magazine of the National MS Society
The Magazine of the National MS Society

Thanks for visiting my MS 150 / MS Bike lens -- I would love your feedback! 

Was this a useful, unique and fresh source for MS 150 / BIKE MS info?

Lensmaster

apietrangelo wrote...

Admirable!

I have MS. The bike ride is out of the question for me, but I do raise money for the MS Walk in the spring.

I've adding your lens to my lensroll.

ReplyPosted November 10, 2008

Lensmaster

Gish wrote...

Very nice! I'm new and looking for ideas....MS is a nasty disease, I have secondary, progressive which means...I don't know...I've never met anyone with the same symtoms...we probably all have it. I need to find a way to make money because my disability insurance ends in 4 years.
Keep up the great work.
Gish

ReplyPosted July 25, 2008

Lensmaster

MSdebbie wrote...

Good Luck in your ride and riding for a Cure Pursuit. In May 2008 Bike MS is coming to the Blake Water Trail in Milton Florida. Althought I don't ride I will be voluntering. Let's continue to walk and bike for a Cure to be seen in OUR life time.
Blessings
debbie

ReplyPosted February 02, 2008

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"A year ago Mike Gibbons had never done any fund-raising. Now he hopes
to change the world" Regan White in "Message in a Button", Charlotte Weekly November 2006.

Upon reading that I was at first taken aback -- not exactly the kind of thing you want to lead with especially if your stated goal is to "change the face of fundraising". But as I thought about it IT IS PRECISELY what I want people to know and now I open all of my fundraising seminars with that line.

Fundraising is not easy nor is it as hard as you might think. I am proof of that and I am out to help ordinary people do extraordinary things -- the task is not easy but the answer is inside of each of us!

I kinda wish Regan had use this opening line instead.. 

"Here's to the crazy ones...because the people who are crazy enough to THINK they can change the world, are the ones who do."

Maybe the combination of the two sums it up -- I have been lucky enough to find a group of remarkable people, my cycling team MojoRiding and together we have become somewhat of a fund raising phenomenon (often in spite of ourselves I might add!) --we raised over $110,000 in 2007 for cancer and multiple sclerosis causes.

So how did we do it? We personalized our cause, we told a story, many stories! And then we took it a step further we made it tangible -- many of us made photo buttons of our loved ones to wear while fundraising -- can't fully explain it but there is just something powerful about these little buttons  --I have seen it make a difference and in some cases all the difference!

I hope you will take a look around (grab a cup of coffee) at what I am building here on Squidoo. I have tried to make unique, useful and updated lenses on active charity events. If you like the lenses then please visit my blog Behind the Button and of course my website Buttons of Hope -- where you too can go on make a custom photo button to wear in YOUR charity event 

The title of the full quote above is THINK DIFFERENT. Regan was right I am out to Change the World by helping people to not only think different but to be different -- it will change you and together we will be the change we wish to see...I hope one button at a time!

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