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Although Parsons says that there are rarely discipline problems on the trips, he says that "there are certain decisions that can't be made democratically." If someone was repeatedly involved with drug use or behaved in a way that reflected poorly on the group, the leaders would ask the biker to leave the trip, he says...
Although there is usually no water along the route, as the towns can be 60 miles apart, each trip has two Support and Gear (SAG) vehicles, which drive back and forth among the riders and carry gear, food supplies, water and fruit for during the ride, Faber says...
Accommodations along the route vary from night to night, Faber says. "We stayed in churches, YMCA's and high schools, and we camped out in tents if there were no other options," she says. "The people in the towns we went through knew it was a fundraising trip for hunger, and churches would give us huge potluck dinners...
Throughout the trip, the bikers found people friendly. "In a small town in Kansas, a man at a potluck dinner asked us about our next day's route. When it turned out he lived along the way, 17 miles out of town, he offered to cook us a big breakfast the next morning," Collins says...
...each of the towns they pass through, the riders share information about their cause. "We tried to get audiences and we would either do a skit to demonstrate the problems of world hunger or just share facts and experiences about our trip," Kahrl says...