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In the PINK (and green)!

Middle age men and women (and a couple of hammerhead kids), doctors, lawyers, professionals, Moms and Dads in hot pink & lime green spandex, really! We ride a lot of miles, raise a lot of money and have a lot of FUN!!

Based in Charlotte, NC with an kickin' Atlanta GA branch! 

breathe....ride....live 

....and watch for MojoRunning coming in 2006!! 

For information on joining or starting your own MojoRiding team send me an email

igibbs at mac dot com 

the mojorising..... 

The inspirtation for Mojoriding

listen close at the 4:55 point....mr mojorising......

It's all new! Watch the PROs on VERSUS!!! 

Versus Channel 74 (formerly OLN)

Its Back!!! Your TV schedule for Pro Cycling's wild and crazy Spring Classics in Europe watch each Sunday at the Versus Network recaps the amazing spring season -- leading up to the Giro d' italia and the gran'pere of them all the Tour de' France! Join Paul Sherwin, Bob Roll and Phil Ligget for Cyclism Sundays -- enjoy the ride!
Versus TV: Cyclism Sunday
If you have never watched early season cycling from Europe -- you are in for a treat!

It all kicks off February 18 with the Tour of California and then right into Paris-Nice on March 11!


4/1 Criterium International
4/8 Tour de Flanders
4/15 Paris-Roubaix
4/22 Amstel Gold
4/28 Tour de Georgia
....more

WHERE TO RIDE in 2007 ??? 

Here are links to upcoming rides including a short description
Brandon's Birthday Ride
SATURDAY MARCH 17
(also Brandon's 16th Birthday)

ELAM N8 CANCER
Brandon Elam was diagnosed with brain cancer in October 2004. Through the remainder of 2004 and 2005 Brandon underwent extensive chemo treatments and surgery to remove cancer from his brain and spine. Brandon was announced cancer free in July 2005. Unfortunately the disease decided to return with vengeance. This ride is dedicated to Brandon who has shown incomparable courage in his fight against elimination of this disease.

Please add a note on Brandon's Guestbook at www.brandonelam.com
Tour de Cashiers
SATURDAY APRIL 15
Thank you for visiting. The Tour de Cashiers (TdC) is located in the beautiful town of Cashiers, NC. The TdC offers many wonderful bike rides around the scenic mountains of Western North Carolina. We look forward to seeing you ride in the 2006 Tour de Cashiers.
The rides will be on April 15th, 2007. We are excited to announce the return of the 2.5 mile Mountain Time Trial, the 25-Mile Ride and a METRIC and full Century rides this year.
Carolina Cycling Time Trials
APRIL 3 - OCTOBER 9 (9 TIME TRIAL DATES)

Carolina Cycling Time Trial Assoc. (CCTTA), working with Humpy Wheeler, President of Lowe's Motor Speedway and the staff of the track are pleased to announce the dates for the 2007 Time Trial Series. Through the generosity of Mr. Wheeler and Lowe's Motor Speedway, the 2007 Series will include nine events beginning in April and run through October. The time trial events are held on the main track of the world-class 1-1/2 mile NASCAR track at Lowe's Motor Speedway and are open to all ability levels from world champions' racers to recreational cyclists.
Cycle Charlotte Ride!
MAY 2007
My (our) friend John Williams started this event in honor of Todd Weaver the cyclist killed by a city bus earlier this year!
This event will be held on May 13th, 2006 to include a children's bicycle safety rodeo, a police supported 2-mile family fun ride in Uptown Charlotte and a 10 and 25-mile awareness and recreational ride in the streets of Charlotte.
Assault on Marion / Mt. Mitchell
Monday JUNE 12 6:30am START
The Trip from Spartanburg to Marion
The Assault on Marion covers the first 72 miles of the Assault on Mt. Mitchell challenge. The first 72 miles has about 4,500 feet of climbing. This portion of the tour moves through gentle rolling country side of South Carolina.

You have several very short climbs to go up but for the most part, this is the leisure part of the ride where you can just sit back and enjoy the country side and the morning sun rise....(more)
Collier Lilly Ride 4 Life
JUNE 2007
The Collier Lilly Ride 4 Life is a recreational bike ride to honor the life of Collier Cobb Lilly, raise awareness and money for organ sharing, and to bring various communities together to celebrate life.
For serious cyclists, the day kicks-off with a 100K (@ 62 miles), a 50K (@ 31 miles) or a 25K (@ 15 miles) ride through the beautiful back roads of Mecklenburg, Iredell, Rowan, and Cabarrus counties.
Blood. Sweat and Gears!
SATURDAY JUNE 23
A demanding route, which showcases the mountain communities of Watauga County, North Carolina, requires over 13,000 feet of total climbing. Highlights of the route include a 21 mile section of the Blue Ridge Parkway, a strenuous climb over the 4,500 foot gap at Snake Mountain, and a 10 mile "flat" on old US 421.

A 50 mile "Half Century" is available for those who prefer the sanity of a challenging, but shorter route. Both rides are fully supported with aide stations and SAG support.
24 Hours of Booty
FRIDAY/SATURDAY JULY 27-28
The fifth annual 24 Hours of Booty , brought to you by The Hearst Corporation, is the one and only 24-hour road cycling charity event in the country! This unique and fun event is fully supported on a traffic-free, gently rolling loop -- the "BOOTY LOOP" -- situated in the beautiful Myers Park neighborhood just outside Charlotte 's Center City. Once a year the Booty Loop is closed to traffic to host cyclists from around the country as they participate in the 24 Hours of Booty!
Start to Finish ms, Myrtle Beach
SATURDAY/SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15-16
The MS150 Breakaway to the Beach Bike Tour is a tour for all cyclists. This fully supported ride has rest stops every 6-10 miles, which include food, drink and restrooms. Bike mechanics, medical personnel, support wagons, police, route marshals, massage therapists and dedicated volunteers also support this incredible event

Bike Journal 

This will motivate you!

Super easy way to set cycling goals and track your progress. Also has a great forum to learn more about cycling and FOR YOU to ask questions about gear, the pros, rides..anything!
Bike Journal
"After one month of using bikejournal.com, I must thank you so much. It is so cool. For years and years I wrote down miles in an old notebook and that was fairly incomplete. With this website it so easy to retrieve stuff."

Bikejournal is designed to provide you, the avid or recreational biker, with a convenient and fun way to track your rides and meet other cyclists for camaraderie, motivation, and even competition.
Other features include a thriving member's forum on various biking-related topics, numerous stat comparison tables to see how you stack up against other members, the ability to join clubs and track your club stats, information on upcoming rides, maps to local trails, and various biking links.

GOOGLE BIKE MAPS 

Yes this really works!

Map your OWN cycling, running or walking routes and distance -- really!
Google Gmap Pedometer
This innovative site allows you to not only map your bike, run or walk route but it calculates the distance! Map a route, save it or email to a buddy!

ULTIMATE BICYCLE 

We like these guys and they keep us on the road in style!

THE OFFICIAL BIKE SHOP AND FRIEND OF TEAM MOJORIDING

Discount for MojoRiding team members!
Ultimate Bicycle
REMEMBER the Saturday Moring ride from Ultimate at 8am!
Ultimate Bicycle and Fitness, Inc. recognizes you have numerous choices of where to shop for the right bikes and accessories for your needs. It's why we work so hard to earn your business not just once, but over and over again. And it's why we strive to deliver excellence in every aspect of our business....(MUCH MORE)

MOJORIDING FAVORITES 

Sponsors and Friends of MojoRiding!

FRIENDS OF MOJORIDING WHO HAVE BEEN GOOD TO US AND HAVE GOOD STUFF
Brixx Wood Fired Pizza!
Brixx Wood-Fired Pizza...
is a neighborhood restaurant serving handcrafted pizzas hot out of our wood-burning oven. We also offer a selection of signature sandwiches, pastas, salads and desserts. While you're with us, we invite you to kick back, and enjoy a microbrew or glass of wine. Brixx features 14 wines by the glass and 24 great beers on tap.
Scott Sadler ReMax Executive Realty!
"My goal is to provide the best service and utmost professional knowledge to our clients in their real estate transactions.`
Scott Sadler"
Buttons of Hope
We hope that by wearing a button with a picture of your friend or loved one, you'll experience an even stronger sense of honor and pride when you participate in a fundraising event. The more that you (and, with luck, a whole bunch of other people) enjoy getting involved, the greater the impact for charities and the closer we'll all be to making a difference in people's lives and to finding some important cures!
24 Hours of Booty
The goal of the 24 Hours of Booty is to provide an extraordinary cycling event that is
safe, fun, and open to all levels of cycling ability, while bringing cancer awareness to
the community and raising funds for noteworthy cancer charities.
Dilworth Coffee
A 2005 Inaugural sponsor of TEAM MOJORIDING...
We start many of our team rides from the Park Road Dilworth Coffee -- Pete Glunt, MOJO cheerleader wakes us up with espresso shots and apres' ride we soothe the aches with caramel coffee smoothies!
Bicycle Sport
....Bicycle Sport is Charlotte's premiere high end road bike shop in the heart of Myers Park and is over 23 years old. It recently moved 6 doors down to a bigger and much nicer location. The first store in Charlotte to offer espresso on Saturday mornings, it continues the tradition of exciting people by great bikes or caffeine....more
Olive Law Firm
At Olive Law Firm, our goal is to provide the highest quality legal services to you in a timely fashion. We welcome the opportunity to talk with you and to discuss how we may be of service. ...(more)
TREK Bikes WOMEN
Ladies....?
Terry Bicycles and Gear
Another great site for women's cycling gear!
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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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