🌸25 Years of Fundraising Fueled by Fun and Community🌸

🏍️ You've been hitting the road for 25 years, and we thought it would be fun to illustrate what covering 2,270,031 kilometers for the Breast Cancer Pledge Ride truly looks like.

Here are 25 tidbits to mark 25 years of cruising with the most incredible supporters ever! Thank you!

THE RIDERS:

🔥 How Many Hours in the Saddle?

• Average rider comfort pace: 60 km/h

• That’s 37,834 hours of riding

• Equal to 1,576 days that's over 4 years of seat time— because who doesn't love a good cause and a chance to wear pink!

  
  

🧤 How Many Pairs of Riding Gloves?

• Many riders replace gloves every 20,000 km

• That’s about 113 pairs of gloves worn by the friction zone

  
  

👢 How Many Rider Boot Soles Worn Out?

• If boots last 30,000 km.

• That’s 75 pairs of boots scuffed, scraped, and stomped on.

  
  

🪖 How Many Helmets?

• If helmets should be replaced every 5 years or after 40,000 km of heavy use

• That’s about 56 helmets - helmet head is a small price to pay

🧥 How Many Riding Jackets’ Worth of Wear?

• A well‑used jacket lasts around 50,000 km.

• That’s 45 jackets holding back the wind, rain, and whatever that bug splat was.

  
  

🧴 How Many Bottles of Sunscreen?

• A rider might use one bottle per 5,000 km in a season.

• That’s 454 bottles of sunscreen — SPF 50 for the win.

  
  

THE BIKES:

⛽ How Much Fuel Would Riders Burn?

• Average motorcycle fuel economy: 5 L per 100 km

• Total 113,501 litres of fuel feeding the soul

• Enough to fill 2,270 standard 50‑L gas tank

🛢️ How Many Oil Changes?

• Most motorcycles need an oil change every 5,000 km.

• 454 oil changes - keeping the ride Glidin'

  
  

💧 How Many Litres of Engine Oil Used?

• If each oil change uses about 3.5 litres.

• 454 oil changes, that’s 1,589 litres of oil — enough to fill a small hot tub.

🛑 How Many Brake Pad Changes?

• Most motorcycles need new pads every 20,000 km.

• That’s about 113 sets of brake pads 

🔊 How Many Hours of Engine Rumble?

• At an average of 60 km/h, that’s 37,834 hours of engine sound.

• Equivalent to 4.3 years of meditative decibels

🧽 How Many Bike Washes?

• Many riders wash their bike every 1,000 km

• That’s 2,270 bike washes — enough to keep a whole dealership busy for a month

🦟 How Many Litres of Bug Cleaner?

• A long ride can use 250 ml of bug cleaner.

• You’ve ridden enough to use over 9,000 bottles — Manitoba mosquitos never stood a chance.

🛞 How Many Sets of Motorcycle Tires?

• Average tire life: 12,000 km.

• That’s about 189 sets of tires burned through in support of Manitobans facing breast cancer.

  
  

🏍️ How Many Motorcycles Would It Take?

• Average lifespan before major rebuild: 100,000 km

• The BCPR community has ridden the equivalent of wearing out 23 full motorcycles over 25 years.

🥚 How Many Eggs Could a Motorcycle Tow

• Trailer can safely carry about 200 kg of cargo

• One egg weighs about 60 g

• A motorcycle could tow over 3,000 eggs at a time — enough to feed a small town breakfast after a long charity ride!

  
  

THE DISTANCE:

🌡️ How Many Riding Seasons?

• Average Manitoba riding season: 10,000 km for an active rider

• Your total equals 227 full riding seasons

• That’s a lifetime of riding for 20 riders

🍁 How Many Times Across Canada?

• Canada is about 7,821 km coast‑to‑coast.

• BCPR riders have effectively crossed Canada 290 times!

  
  

🏔️ Equivalent to Riding the Trans‑Canada Highway…

• The Trans‑Canada is 7,821 km long.

• You’ve ridden its length 290 times, or its entire loop (including branches) over 200 times.

  
  

🛣️ How Many Prairie Loops?

• Winnipeg → Riding Mountain → Dauphin → Winnipeg loop: ~700 km

• You’ve ridden that loop 3,242 times and it still feels good

🌍 How Many Times Around the Earth?

• Earth’s circumference is 40,075 km.

• You’ve ridden the equivalent of 56 laps around the planet.

  
  

🌕 How Many Trips to the Moon?

• The Moon is 384,400 km away.

• You’ve ridden far enough to go to the Moon and back nearly 3 times

🕒 How Long Would It Take to Ride That Far?

• At an average speed of 80 km/h, it would take:

• 28,375 hours of riding

• 1,182 days

• Over 3 years of nonstop throttle‑twisting dedication

🏍️💨 How Many Burnouts (Just for Fun)?

• A burnout might last 100 metres

• You’ve got enough distance for 22.7 million burnouts

THE COMMUNITY:

👋 How Many Rider Waves?

• If riders wave at 1 out of every 10 bikes they pass…

• You’ve easily shared hundreds of thousands of rider waves — a whole culture of connection.

• We know the numbers higher!

• Still thinking about eggs?