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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ride for Life Merges With Bike-Aid | 10/24/1986 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ride for Life Merges With Bike-Aid | 10/24/1986 | See Source »

...just had to overcome our egos and join forces," said Mary B. Kroetch, Bike-Aid's current coordinator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ride for Life Merges With Bike-Aid | 10/24/1986 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ride for Life Merges With Bike-Aid | 10/24/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Move Over, Break Dancing | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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