Word: biking
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Harvard's Cyclists Fighting Hunger (CFH) decided to join efforts with the nationally based Bike-Aid for this year's cross-country bike tour to raise funds for public service projects...
Last year, when Bike-Aid was first created, both groups sponsored rides to promote awareness of poverty and hunger issues and development projects in the third world and the U.S. Bike-Aid and the four-year-old CFH decided this fall that, rather than compete as they did last summer, they should collaborate...
...just had to overcome our egos and join forces," said Mary B. Kroetch, Bike-Aid's current coordinator...
Sponsored by the Overseas Development Network (ODN)--a student-run organization devoted to development efforts with chapters on more than 40 campuses nation wide--Bike-Aid includes riders from colleges all over the country. About 75 riders participated in last summer's trip which raised a total of $132,000 for ODN projects...
...Rads may pocket $300 on a good day. A member of one of the professional teams now traveling the country may earn from $35,000 to $85,000 a year for appearing at shows under the auspices of such bike manufacturers as GT, Haro and Red Line. Bike breaking has all the signs of a street craze going mainstream: bikers are showing up in commercials (Pepsi, Swatch watches) and in music videos, and grateful merchandisers are climbing aboard with lines of bikes, gear and clothes. Says Happy Freedman, a semipro cyclist and salesman at Larry & Jeff's in New York...