My wife Nicole and I lost our first child Lukas, he was born sleeping on 31st October 2009. It was such a hard time in our life, we didn’t know how we were going to get through it. Until we found some wonderful charities that offered much needed support. We also came across the Sydney2CAMberra ride the first year it started, which was only 2 years after we lost Lukas. Our live have changed in many ways, one of them is that we have found another family. The Sydney2CAMberra family, who we love coming back to every year. The work the founders and organisers do is amazing, the work and effort the riders go to raise some amazing amounts of money is unbelievable and the charities that the money goes to to support other grieving families is wonderful. We are so grateful to have found this support through riding in this wonderful event, 300km from Sydney to Canberra.

This year the Riding for Lukas group has grown. Ross is back again for his third year, but I have also my brother Aaron and cousin Scott riding for the first time this year. I am so thankful and appreciative of these guys riding along side me and the other riders, to raise money for wonderful charities.

So please, if you can, donate! Your money is helping charities do amazing research, supporting grieving families and so so much more.