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Texas Ride for Missing Children
May 1, 2015

The Texas Ride for Missing Children is a 100K (62 mile) ride starting and ending at Lifetime Fitness – Flower Mound, 3100 Churchhill Drive, Flower Mound, Texas.

Riders will be led by law enforcement in a two-by-two processional traveling at a pace of approximately 14 to 16 mph. The train of riders will stop along the route at various schoools to thank the children cheering on the riders and to share safety information with them.

Riders will also honor missing children and partners in law enforcement with poignant memorials along the route, always remembering they are riding to raise awareness.


The Ride for Missing Children

In 1995, a team of seven cyclists rode their bicycles from Utica, NY to Washington, DC to raise awareness of missing children and bring a message of safety to the people they met along the way. They arrived on the steps of the Capitol building on May 25th, National Missing Children's Day. Two years later, inspired by that first ride, 43 cyclists rode their bicycles 100 miles from Albany, NY to Utica, NY with the same message of safety and awareness. Thus began the Rides for Missing Children.

The rides have grown steadily each year and now there are over 750 people participating in five separate rides in Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Central New York. This year’s ride in Denton County, Texas is the inaugural ride for Texas Regional Office. The purpose of the ride is to:

  • Honor all missing and exploited children.
  • Raise funds to support prevention and education programs that help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation.


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Young fans hold up signs of support.

Making our children safer... one Child at a time.

Riders are cheered on at the 2013 Syracuse Ride for Missing Children.

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