Chris riding cross country for Road2ACure
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Author: motoreagles
Published (on YouTube): 2010-06-08
Published (here): 2012-02-08
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http://www.youtube.com/motoreagles - Cool Bikes. Cool Riders: Chris riding cross country for Road2ACure on a 2010 Victory Vision. For additional ways to get involved, on the road and from home, see visit http://www.road2acure.org/
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Chris Calaprice: Hi. I'm Chris Calaprice with road2acure. I'm a 6 ½ year survivor of pancreatic cancer and a 6 year continuous chemotherapy patient. I'm riding my motorcycle 42,000 miles this year to raise awareness for the disease. It's a Victory Vision. It's been generously donated by Victory to help our cause. They provide the bike, all the service, as well as all the great sponsors like ATRA, 858 Graphics, and Angel Print. They're great folks and we couldn't do it without them. My riding experience in the last year has been 13,000 miles so far of my 45,000 miles since February 23rd. Really, the reason we are out here doing this is pancreatic cancer is the number four killer among cancers. Yet it sees less than two percent of the federal funding so road2acure is really a motorcycle based PR campaign to raise the visibility for pancreatic cancer. Federal funding of 2 percent just doesn't work; it's got to be changed.
As far as riding, this is a beautiful country. In the last 3 and a half months and 13,000 miles, I've covered most of the south. I would say that favorite riding roads: West Virginia is really high on my list, Colorado, Arizona desert, and four corners region. I would really say Durango: the passes over Durango and out in monument valley are just stunning. So, if you have a chance, you got to go ride Zion National Park. It's only about a 45 minute run once you get there but that 45 minutes is well worth it. So a beautiful loop is to ride up. I left Los Angeles at about 10:00 in the morning, rode through Zion National Park, out to Lake Powell, through four corners Arizona, and a 720 mile day that was a great day. Then I came out here to Ohio Bike Week to get an iron butt. I left about 50 miles east of Durango, rode across the Rockies and 1,000 miles and 24 hours later stopped in St. Louis.
Probably my best experience on motorcycle is just about every day. The different places you ride, the sense, and the being immersed in this world. When you ride you're really involved, the windows aren't rolled up. When you go through a strawberry patch, you smell the strawberries. Go by a trash truck or a cattle car, you smell something else. Worst riding experience for me was losing a friend in high school from a tip over at almost a dead stop, not wearing a helmet. Cracked his head open on the cement. As far as safety goes, safety is not a bad word for riders. Yeah road rash might tell an interesting story, but I'd rather be the guy that picks the bike up, motor a GP, and just dump it at 160 and tries to get it started running again. I ride a lot of miles. I'm riding 42,500 miles: one mile for each person diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year and you bet I'm wearing back armor, full-faced helmet, knee armor, hip, elbows, and shoulders. When you've been able to push the odds for that long, you got to do something to protect yourself.
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