Riding for a Cure

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Jeremy Landers

Story Created: Oct 21, 2007 at 5:04 PM CST

Story Updated: Oct 21, 2007 at 5:09 PM CST

October 21, 2007

Corpus Christi was the finish line for more than 3 thousand bike riders. They were taking part in the Valero MS 150 which began in San Antonio on Saturday. The two day bike tour is helping raise money for an estimated 20-thousand Texans living with M.S. and the financial burden on their families.  Most people with M.S. are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more than twice as many women as men being diagnosed with the disease. The disease attacks a persons nervous system. Many of the people who took part in this weekends bike tour say the race helps educate people about multiple sclerosis, and many of the bikers say they know at least one person who is fighting the disease.

Rider Craig Bielke said, "We always race for the cure, obviously but sometimes its hard to get a cure for something this horrible, so we just race to better the world as much as we can."

 

-Bill Churchwell

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