Mike is Giving Back......Again.

     When I first got onto a bicycle in March...it was awkward and uncomfortable and my butt hurt.  However, after thousands of kilometers of training..my bike is now an extra appendage.  That's what the trainers said would happen.  My bike has become a part of me and I have personalized it to inspire me.  It has Mike Lawless' Tour de Rock bandanna on the handlebars, a photo of Emma, a junior rider who passed away this year, hanging from the seat, and two friendship bracelets.  One from Camp Goodtimes and the other is from my nine year old daughter.  

     So when I speak about auctioning off Mike Lawless' Tour de Rock Bicycle at the Mike Lawless Tank Top Hip Hop Flop..it's bittersweet.  This bike was a part of his epic adventure in 2004.   It was the bike that helped him discover his passion for helping kids with cancer through Tour de Rock.  The bike was his inspiration.  

     After Mike passed away last year from cancer at the age of 43, it was an easy decision about what to do with his bicycle.  It had been hanging in the garage since 2004..a symbol of an amazing journey and now it will once more give back to the reason it exists in the first place.  The money raised will go to the kids.  That's what Mike would want and we're sure he is grinning up there somewhere with out plan.

     So please come to the Mike Lawless Tank Top Flip Flop Hop and watch Mike give back once more through his bike.  Trek is getting all fixed up and ready to make some money for a cause that was dear to Mike's heart, dear to all of our hearts. 

So hope to see you on September 17 at Ashton Armouries.  Check out the poster and contact me for tickets.  It will be a truly epic (and emotional in a good way) evening!  

     It's only two weeks away!  If you want to bid on Mike's bike...we may consider bids by phone!

If you can't make it....please consider donating in Mike's name.
www.tourderock.ca/janiscarmena