The Motorcycle Ride for Dad is Canada’s biggest annual motorcycle event dedicated to fighting prostate cancer through research and awareness.

The first Ride for Dad took place in Ottawa in 2000 with 75 riders. This year, the Ride celebrates its 10th anniversary and engines will roar across Canada!

Behind the Motorcycle Ride for Dad is the dedicated National Advisory Board, the many police associations, all the volunteer executive committees in each of the event cities, and last but not least, the thousands of riders who have come back year after year to join the fight against prostate cancer!

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The Motorcycle Ride for Dad began in Ottawa in 2000. Garry Janz, along with the support of the Ottawa Police Association, the Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre Foundation and a handful of volunteers, organized that first Ride.

Since then, the Ride has been raising money for prostate cancer research and education. Men, women and children rally each year to support the Ride in staggering numbers. The event gets even more exciting as new Ride for Dad Chapters continue to join the fight against prostate cancer in other Canadian cities.

The Ride is an event whose time has arrived

•  Boomers are buying motorcycles in unprecedented numbers.

•  More men then ever are being diagnosed with prostate cancer.

•  Public figures and celebrities are admitting they are being treated for prostate cancer.

•  Despite this, little is being done to help this cause in a way which catches public attention like the Motorcycle Ride for Dad!

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Route Information for the 2010 Okanagan Motorcycle Ride for Dad

This year the ride will start from Prospera Place.

Registration will open at 7:30 – come early.

You will have a police escorted ride from Prospera Place (departing at 10:00AM) via Water Street and Abbott Street to the W.R. Bennett bridge. The escorted ride will continue along Highway 97 to Mark’s Work Wearhouse

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www.motorcycleridefordad.org/okanagan