Please support me as I ride 180 miles to raise money for Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) and Better Existence with HIV (BEHIV). 100% of your donation goes to these organizations (all the costs for the ride event itself are covered by participants' registration fees and corporate sponsors).

Here's "Why We Ride" from rideforaids.org:

On June 5th, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report detailing an outbreak of a rare form of cancer known as Kaposi's Sarcoma, which was affecting groups of previously healthy homosexual men in large metropolitan cities in the United States. In the following years, as hundreds, then thousands of individuals became sick with Kaposi's and other equally debilitating opportunistic infections that doctors couldn't cure; millions were forced to grapple with fear and prejudice. While the politicians faltered in calming the fear, science faltered in finding cures and preventive medicine for this new epidemic called AIDS.
Today, 25 years later over 15 million men, women and children worldwide have died of AIDS and an estimated 40 million people are living with HIV. AIDS impacts people of all ethnicities, genders and sexual orientations.
Across the United States*:
    * It's estimated that over 1 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.
    * Almost 40,000 new infections were reported in 2005.
    * Only a small minority of Americans living with HIV are under a doctor's care.
    * Over 16,000 people died in 2005.
      *Source: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention