AIDSRide
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The AIDSRides were a series of bike rides to generate funds for research and treatment of AIDS and related diseases.
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[edit] History
Originally sponsored by Tanqueray and produced by Pallotta TeamWorks (also producer of the Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day sponsored by Avon Products (currently Breast Cancer 3-Day)) there was considerable and increasing controversy about the expenses of the production of the more than twenty five rides, including the nine California AIDSRides. Eventually, the event became independently produced by the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and became the AIDS/LifeCycle event.
Pallotta TeamWorks, the company that produced the AIDSRides, and the two beneficiaries, San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, split in 2002, with the Foundation and the Center holding its first AIDS/LifeCycle within a few weeks of the final California AIDS Ride.
After its 2002 ride Pallotta TeamWorks went out of business.
[edit] Ride List
Over the years, Pallotta TeamWorks produced many AIDSRides throughout the North American continent.[1]
- California: 1994-2002
- Philadelphia to DC: Philadelphia, Pa. to Washington, D.C., 1996 (TeamWorks was fined by Pa. Attorney General for improper fund raising. In response, Palotta vowed not to hold fundraising events in Pennsylvania again.)
- Heartland: Twin Cities to Chicago, 1996-2002
- Northeast: New York to Boston, or reverse, 1995-2002
- Texas: 1998-2002
- Alaska AIDS Vaccine Ride: 2000-2001
- Montana AIDS Vaccine Ride: 2001
- Montreal to Portland, Maine: 2001
- European AIDS Vaccine Ride: 2002
[edit] References
- ^ About Pallotta TeamWorks. Pallotta TeamWorks Website. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
