Ride to Cure Diabetes
 

Anyone ever done one of these before? My sister is working for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and she found out about this ride. It's basically an all-expenses-paid trip to do a century ride in Monterey or Death Valley, CA. Of course the caveat is that you have to raise $3000. How hard is it to raise $3000? Does knocking on doors work? Sounds to me like the experience of a lifetime... but I wanna know first if its plausible before I get too excited.

In case anyone else is interested in doing it too:
http://ride.jdrf.org/index2.htm

If you live in a bigger town, it is a lot easier to get sponsors. I went sponsor cruising last year for our local cancer society, we have a walk/bikeathon, just basically do laps around blocks. I found that business are really receptive to sponsoring, especially when they find out I can take a dig pic of their business front and make a sticker to put on my back for the day. I raised a little over a grand with just 5 business sponsors and 10 personal sponsors.

I saw some people riding stationary bikes in the middle of downtown boston to bring attention and donations to an aids ride. I thought it was a great idea.

Dave