Anyone can register!

We’re encouraging people of all ages, abilities, and fitness levels to take on the CHALLENGE.  You just need access to a bike and because you can ride indoor, outdoor, in a gym or at home on a wind trainer or exercise bike at anytime and anywhere and either as an individual, as a family or in a team, there’s no reason not to register and join us! Just do your challenge anytime between Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 8, 2022. At home or near home. Indoors or outdoors. On a road, a bike path, a rail trail, a bush track, along the beach. By yourself or with mates or family or a club! But make it a CHALLENGE!

Your CHALLENGE is one you set yourself. It could be anything that involves riding any bike – indoors or outdoors, at home or in a gym or at a pool, on a road bike a mountain bike, a tandem bike or recumbent bike, round your suburb or town, on a velodrome, bike path, road or rail trail or bush track, on the flat or up a hill or mountain! It might be a ride for distance, to average a speed, beat a record, get from one place to the next. 

You set the challenge yourself or with family or friends. But set it and JUST DO IT anytime between Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 8, 2022

16 riders are riding 900km from Parliament House in Canberra to Melbourne’s MCG. Finishing on Sunday, May 8, 2022 – Mother’s Day and World Ovarian Cancer Day! Their challenge is to complete the ride in 9 days! 100km per day!

When you register, you’ll be able to set up your own fundraising page following the prompts.  You can set a fundraising target for yourself, or your team.  Then, share the link to your fundraising page far and wide with friends, family and colleagues and they’ll be able to make donations towards your target.

Your registration money goes towards covering the administrative costs of the ROCInc setting up and hosting the ROCInc RIDE FOR RESEARCH (Virtual) anytime between Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 8, 2022.

Your fundraising money goes towards funding research grants into rare ovarian cancer. These are projects that aim to save the lives of females of all ages, not just older women. So little is known about rare ovarian cancer that early detection, diagnosis, and treatment is hit and miss. Your registration and fundraising dollars will go to world leading researchers in Australia who are researching rare ovarian cancers.

Donations made to your fundraising page are tax deductible, and your supporters will receive an automated receipt via email which they can use at tax time.

The physical RIDE FOR RESEARCH 2022 will be undertaken by 16 male and female riders who have already been selected by ROCInc to participate. We keep the numbers for this ride capped to ensure we remain safe on the road, and manageable off the road! Therefore, involvement is by invite only. If you would like to be considered for future RIDE FOR RESEARCH rides, please reach out via the contact form and let us know a bit about yourself and why you think the physical ride is for you!