Biking for a Better World's "Project A to Z"

Biking for a Better World began with four friends who dreamed of biking from Alaska to Argentina. The idea grew into a monumental project and a school was built in Nicaragua as the riders rolled across countries and continents---15,000+ miles in eight months, unsupported---from the beginning of the road to the end. It was through this endeavor that our charity was born.

Two of our directors will tackle a September 2009 ride, Montana to Mexico, 2500 miles along the Great Divide Mountain Bike route. The project will benefit Disabled Sports, USA and their summer adaptive cycling programs. Montana to Mexico represents the fourth ride of Project A to Z, part of BBW’s goal to host 26 charity-driven, alliteratively-named rides covering all the letters of the alphabet. Previous rides, which involved our directors and which helped to spark the creation of BBW, include Buffalo to Burbank (2001), Tahoe to Texas (2003), and Alaska to Argentina (2007). With 22 letters to go, we will need members to join us in our quest to ride from A to Z. Please click on a letter for more info on individual rides and projects, and don't hesitate to contact us if you have an idea for a charity ride with a catchy name to fit in to Project A to Z.

In June of 2007, the four founding members of the organization completed an immense task, biking the Pan-American highway from the northern-most road accessible point in Alaska at Prudhoe Bay to the tip of South America at Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina---over 15,000 miles in eight months, unsupported. The ride served as a catalyst to raise nearly $30,000, most of which went towards the building of a school in rural Northern Nicaragua.

Click here to see our journal from the A2A ride. Click here to see more photos from the journey.

About our Partner: Building with Books

An important part of BwB's mission is to provide safe and functional schoolhouses for children in developing countries. They build these structures in some of the poorest communities where educational opportunities are sorely lacking due to schoolhouses that are: non-existent, too small or not sturdy enough to house the villages'student populations, overcrowded, or located too far away. In Haiti, Mali, Nicaragua, Nepal, India, Brazil, Malawi, and Bolivia, children and their families now have access to the countless benefits of education, including literacy, health education, improved farming techniques, and perhaps most importantly, a sense of dignity and empowerment. Their international program continues to expand as they build more schoolhouses in existing project countries and extend their programs to new countries.