Resilience changes everything

The Ride for Resilience:
LoveYourBrain’s Annual
Cycling Event Supporting Brain Injury

Coming May 2025
NYC and across the US!

The challenge

  • Concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs every 11 seconds

  • 1 in 3 bike-related injuries is a head injury

  • TBI affects all areas of our health - physical and mental wellness, social connections, our very identity

…but together, we can navigate these challenges - with resilience.

Harness your love of the bike to make resilience possible for people affected by brain injury

Ride in NYC

Apply to join our flagship event in NYC and ride with us in the TD Five Boro Bike Tour!

Donate

Make a difference during National Bike Month (May) by donating to LoveYourBrain’s programs

Fundraise

There are no rules to participate - just reach your fundraising goal and have a great time.

Ride to make a difference

The funds you raise will support accessible, evidence-based programs and resources that provide the tools to build resilience and community for the concussion and brain injury community.

Ride to transform

The impact you’ll make will move thousands of people forward from desperation to hope, and from isolation to deeper belonging.

Ride because you care

Whether you know someone impacted by concussion and brain injury, or you’re looking for a new challenge - you can ride for resilience and make a difference.

Our network of resilience :

Thanks to the cyclists with connection to brain injury who’ve helped raise funds and awareness!

Featured Cyclists

  • Rebecca Rusch is a world-class explorer, professional athlete, acclaimed speaker, and author who brings unbreakable strength, unshakeable confidence, and transformative vulnerability to raising awareness about traumatic brain injury. Simultaneous with her record-setting journey as an athlete, Rebecca launched three thriving organizations: Rusch Ventures, The Be Good Foundation, and Rebecca’s Private Idaho. Her award-winning film, Blood Road, inspires evolution through the story of becoming the first person to bike the entire 1,800-kilometer Ho Chi Minh Trail. Rusch to Glory: Adventure, Risk & Triumph on the Path Less Traveled, Rebecca’s bestselling memoir, weaves lessons of grief and failure, the mind-body connection, and endurance, perseverance, and resilience.

  • Ian lives in Vermont with his wife and two daughters and is a former professional road racing cyclist, who rode for UCI WorldTeam Team Katusha-Alpecin. In March of 2019, he sustained a career-changing concussion at a road cycling race in Italy. With the help of yoga and meditation, Ian began working his way back from his brain injury.

    After deciding to leave World Tour road racing, Ian joined the Wahoo Fitness Marketing team as a brand and athlete ambassador-liaison. Then, in 2021, Ian won Unbound Gravel and found himself as a pro off-road cyclist!

  • Alison Tetrick

  • Alyssa Gonzalez

  • Ben Frederick

  • Blair Hennessey

  • Brooke Goudy

  • Eliza Sampey

  • Ethan Frankel

  • Hannah Shell

  • Jake Magee

  • Lauren De Crescenzo

Featured Fundraisers

  • Philip

    Riding 4,300 miles across the country via the Trans America bike route!

    Meet Philip

  • Chelsea

    Riding the entire length of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Towpath!

    Meet Chelsea

  • Karen

    Riding 40 miles across NYC through the TD Five Boro Bike Tour!

    Meet Karen

Thank you to our generous sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

In-Kind Support