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Bike-Aid (subtitled Pedaling for Progress) is to originate June 16 from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, with cyclists converging later with groups leaving Houston and Tampa on July 12, all heading for a ceremonial finale at the United Nations in New York on Aug. 11.

The bikeathon is a project of the Overseas Development Network, a student organization based at Stanford and, on the East Coast, at Cambridge, Mass. The focus of the network’s 35 campus chapters (in California, also at Pomona College and UC Berkeley) is to fund small, long-term self-help projects in developing countries and impoverished areas of America…….

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-06-05-vw-9533-story.html

Think of it as the Peace Corps on wheels. Bike Aid, a program sponsored by the Overseas Development Network of San Francisco, took to the open road in the summer of 1997 to raise money for environmental education and action around the United States and the world. Seventy-five riders took three different routes across the nation to carry their message of social activism to local community groups and environmental organizations.

https://www.adventurecycling.org/resources/portrait-gallery/bike-aid/