For the 2010 site - please check 2010.freedombiketrek4families.com site - now under construction!

Please check www.twitter.com/freedombiketrek for all updates to this site since the completion of the trek!

While the road to Washington DC has been paved with many broken families - we will rebuild that road with our hearts, our voices, and our bikes"...

This 300 mile biketrek from Philadelphia - thru Valley Forge - out to Lancaster, Gettysburg, then Harrisburgh before riding down to Wahington DC - will be held in the July 2009 (in conjunction of the 2009 Family Preservation Festival held in Washington DC) to raise awareness to the issue of children who need both parents in their lives everyday and how children of divorced parents dont have this need fullfilled.

The inspiration of the ride comes from these people from the 2008 EPBT of Michigan:

     Robb MacKenzie of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan - who rode in 2005 from L'anse to Lansing Michigan at the advice of his daughter.  Robb in 2006 expanded this ride to Washington DC.

     Rob Peterson of Battle Creek Michigan who has an 800 mile ride to DC annually.  PAFACE and Peterson are teaming up in 2009 to have two groups ride together. With Rob's blessing, we started the first branch of the Cycling4Children cause. You may visit his site at www.cycling4children.com to see how he has built this ride since joining the ride in 2007.

     Bill Koellner - member of PAFACE - who rode on the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek from Lansing Michigan to DC in support of this cause.

This site is dedicated to the specifics of the ride, the message the ride delivers, the audience for this message, its importance, to educate people on the plight non-custodial parents have today, and the expected results of this trek.  Please see more about this in our Mission Statement portion of our site.

The site will consistantly be updated as new information or changes comes about.

The ride's organizer is Pennsylvania's Families and Childrens Equality (PAFACE.ORG) - "where children deserve both parents".    Families' And Children’s Equality (FACE) is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization. FACE was founded in 1978 for the purpose of advocating children’s rights to full access to both parents and their extended families, and providing a self-help support group for non-custodial and/or non-residential parents.  You may visit their site here www.paface.org.