My dad has been a part of this ride for over a decade - including helping stand up a non-profit to make the race possible when the past organizers (ADA run) moved on. This year, I'm stepping up to ride alongside him (ok, draft behind him) for the for first two days and I would deeply appreciate your support in making this ride possible.
Your donation helps make this special ride possible - bringing together riders over the years for an important cause, and, this year, bringing my dad and I together, too.
My dad has showed me what healthy and active lifestyle looks like and put me on two wheels (rather memorably...he pushed me down a grass hill and I've been riding ever since) many years ago. It's set me up for a life of health. But not every kid has that opportunity and, in the US, 283,000 children and adolescents under age 20 have diagnosed diabetes. This includes 244,000 with type 1 diabetes.
One special part of the American Diabetes Association for which we are riding is Camp Carefree. It provides a fun-filled, educational camping experience for children with diabetes that will help them to develop and maintain active, healthy lifestyles. It's the experience my dad gave to me, and you can help provide for others.
With cuts to government health programs, it is more important than ever that we ride for better futures.
PS If you are a government vendor or have ever done or plan to do business with Montgomery County, thanks for your consideration but please do donate as I will return it. I am also not accepting jets from Qatar...they're much more carbon intensive than bikes.
New England Classic Charity Bike Tour 150/550 - 2025
The New England Classic Charity Bike Tour is a multi-day fundraising cycling event that offers two-day and seven-day options starting Saturday, July 12, 2025 in Billerica, Mass. at Courtyard Marriott. The 150-mile NEC 150 and 550-mile NEC 550 travel the same route for the first two days. Indoor, air-conditioned accommodations and breakfast and dinner are included with the fundraising minimum of $600 for the NEC 150 and $3,000 for the NEC 550.
The 2025 New England Classic Charity Bike Tour will benefit the American Diabetes Association. Through research, education and advocacy, the ADA pursues its mission to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. More than 30 million Americans live with diabetes.
NEC 150 riders travel the back roads of the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts into southern New Hampshire and along the seacoast with a destination of Durham, N.H. The Day 2 route takes riders to coastal Maine past beaches, rocky coves and quaint villages. Day 2 ends with dinner and a celebration, then riders take chartered buses back to Bedford while their bicycles are transported there safely.
As Day Three begins, the NEC 550 riders will leave coastal Maine, heading west into the White Mountains region, where the challenge rolls north through Conway and on to the Attitash Grand Summit Resort in Bartlett, New Hampshire.
The journey continues on Day Four with a climb up Crawford Notch on the way to Bethlehem and Littleton, N.H., before turning South at the Connecticut River and riding through the Upper Valley. After a night in West Lebanon, NH, riders cross the river into Vermont and pedal on scenic Route 100 to the Killington area and the welcome comfort of a ski resort.
The trek continues through Vermont and then back into the Monadnock region of New Hampshire with an overnight in Keene, N.H. The final leg heads to Central Massachusetts, winding its way to the finish at the Courtyard by Marriott in Billerica, Massachusetts, on Friday, July 18.
The New England Classic Charity Bike Tour (NEC Bike Tour) is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. The purpose of the NEC Bike Tour is to raise funds exclusively for charitable purposes in support of the American Diabetes Association and their summer camp for kids with diabetes, Camp Carefree.