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Equal Parenting Bike Trek Cyclists Recognized at the DC Festival 2008

Congrats again to all four cyclists! For more Equal Parenting Bike Trek videos please visit the Cycling4Children.com Video Page.

Another Video Taken of the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek Departure

Other Equal Parenting Bike Trek Videos

2009 Equal Parenting Bike Trek

We have been planning already for over two months!  The 2009 Equal Parenting Bike Trek is the year we break through with true nationwide media coverage.  Plenty of new things surrounding the 2009 Equal Parenting Bike Trek.  Visit the main page for the 2009 Equal Parenting Bike Trek - visit often for updates on this important event.

Congrats to the four cyclists for completing the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek!

Equal Parenting Bike Trek Videos

Equal Parenting Bike Trek Cyclists Arrive in Washington, D.C. for the DC Festival 2008

From Robert Kerr:

"It's official folks, tne EPBT riders made it to Washington in one piece around 3:00, and made it to the steps of the capital at around 3:30-3:45"

Please be sure to attend the DC Festival 2008.

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Detroit News Blogger Covers Civil Rights Event DC Festival 2008 and EP Bike Trek

Detroit News Fatherhood Blogger Robert Pedersen wrote an excellent update on the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek and the upcoming DC Festival 2008.

Make sure you read the article and COMMENT in support of the DC Festival 2008 and Equal Parenting.

View Robert's other articles written for Detroit News.

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Second Degree Sun Burn - Just One of the Many Risks the Equal Parenting Bike Trek Cyclists Face

Hero Dad Bill Knoellner suffers from a severe 2nd degree sunburn while undertaking the grueling 758 mile Equal Parenting Bike Trek and REFUSES to quit!  Thank goodness is was not a heat stroke!  Bill Knoellner cycles for PA FACE.  Special Thanks to Bill Gibbons for the photo and his spirit of teamwork.

Equal Parenting Bike Trek Cyclists at Speeds of 50mph Plus!

Equal Parenrting Cyclist make a huge descent from the Tuscorora Summit

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Below is a video from the 2007 Equal Parenting Bike Trek at great speeds!

Picture from the Field - One Bike Down and Looking to Repair

A Picture from the field!  Equal Parenting Cyclist Brian Downs in need of repairs.  As you can see the rear derailer is bent into the rim (wheel).  My understanding is that he needs a new rear wheel and perhaps derailer!

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Equal Parenting Cyclists - 2nd Degree Burns and Broken Rims

We received an update from Bill Knoellner today:

Yesterday Bill Knoellner was told that he had second degree burns and was treated for this.  He is still in pain but refuses to quit.

Brian Downs, a Michigan Judicial Candidate, had his bicycle wheel (rim) destroyed.  He is ok and they are in the process of looking for a replacement wheel.

Bill stated on the phone message that spirits are high and they are refusing to quit, but that the hills in Pennsylvania are "kicking their butt". 

Congrats to all of the cyclists for their determination to make it to the DC Festival 2008. All should attend this event JUST to welcome these equal parenting heroes

Glenn Sacks Covers the DC Festival 2008 - A Must Attend Event!

Excellent News!  Glenn Sacks just wrote an article on the DC Festival 2008.  Please be sure to thank him for his coverage of this very important upcoming event.

Please be sure to attend the DC Festival 2008.

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Brief Update from Equal Parenting Bike Trek Cyclist Bill Knoellner

Robert Pedersen, a 2007 EPBT Cyclist, received this email from Bill Knoellner on the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek:

Robert,

having A blast.........................we are in Beaver County PA right now...... thanks for that pic, you were supposed to send that youtube bit. the one with Hillary, McCain, Bush, Obama.
again you were right having a blast


ciao
Bill

Below is the Youtube video he asked for.  Bill had quite the laugh when he watched this the night before his departure at the Pedersen house.

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Equal Parenting Bike Trek Departure From Lansing Michigan Capitol

2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek departure from Lansing Michigan.

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Equal Parenting Bike Trek and DC Festival Make A Top 15 Internet Content Provider

Equal Parenting Bike Trek and DC Festival Make A Top 15 Internet Content Provider.  About.com covers the Equal Parenting Bike Trek for a second time and their latest coverage includes the DC Festival 2008!  We were pleased that they mentioned Robert Pedersen's FRONT page Color Photo Story in the Detroit News which received significant attention and at one point reached the Top 5 of all Detroit News Articles.

Read the article on About.com.

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Professional Logo Complete for the Equal Parenting Bike Trek

The professionally designed logo for the Equal Parenting Bike Trek is now complete!  Let us tell you that this thing is super slick and we have shown it to a couple people and they were amazed by it.  We plan to reveal the logo at an upcoming meeting in September and will most certainly use it for the cycling jerseys for the 2009 Equal Parenting Bike Trek

Bill Foster (EPBT Cyclist) and Scott Hudson Make the Oakland County Press

Congrats to both Bill Foster and Scott Hudson.  Scott Hudson, who supports Michigan House Bill 4564, is running for State Representative.  Please make donations for candidates who support equal parenting such as Scott Hudson and Brian Downs!

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Bill Foster Scott Hudson Oakland County Michigan` EPBT Equal Parenting Bike Trek

Bill Koellner Equal Parenting Cyclist Makes the Bucks County Courier Times

Bill Knoellner, one of the Equal Parenting Bike Trek cyclists makes the Bucks County Courier Times out of Pennsylvania!  I had the pleasure of helping Bill Knoeller before the bike trek started by picking him up the evening before at the Greyhound Bus station, eating dinner with my family and dropping him off for the start of this event.  Excellent job by Bill Knoellner and we hope that he felt at home during his stay with our family.   Robert Pedersen

Read article below.

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Bill Knoeller pictured with 2007 EPBT Cyclist Robert Pedersen.

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MICHIGAN JUDICIAL CANDIDATE RIDES BICYCLE FROM LANSING TO DC IN SUPPORT OF FAMILY COURT REFORM

Press Release
August 6th 2008

For Immediate Release
Contact:
Minister Ronald Smith
616-301-2325
or
Robert Pedersen
269-420-4688

Grand Rapids, Michigan August 6, 2008  - Brian Downs, a Kent County attorney and candidate for Judge in the Kent County 17th Circuit Court in the November election is riding his bicycle 758 miles from the Capitol in Lansing to the nation's Capitol in Washington DC.  Downs along with 3 other riders are signaling a message that Family Courts throughout the nation are not family friendly.  The Equal Parenting Bike Trek has been organized to bring attention to what he believes should be reform in the nations court system.

Brian Downs, who has been a family advocate for the past 7 years, believes that it is the duty of our nation to protect the parent child relationship and repair this relationship when necessary so that children maintain a loving relationship with their entire biological family.  Downs believes that the nation's family court system does more splitting up of families than protecting and maintaining this most important and primary relationship.

Minister Ronald Smith, CEO of Children Need Both Parents, Inc, a non-profit group located in both Chicago and Grand Rapids stated, "Our family court judges pay little attention to the damage being done to our children removing one or both biological parents from a child's life without making a concerted effort that no stone is left unturned to repair and maintain this God Given relationship."

Downs is scheduled to leave Lansing at 2:00pm EST August 7th and scheduled to arrive at the Family Preservation Festival in DC on August 15-16.

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For Interviews Contact:

Minister Ronald Smith                     
Tel:  616-301-2325
Cell: 616-874-8662
Email:   childrenneedbothparents@msn.com
or
Robert Pedersen
Tel:  269-420-4688

Parental Rights Reflections

As I watched the All-Star game the other night (What a long, but great game!), I reminisced about the great tradition and history of Yankee Stadium. The era of greats gone by, most of them long passed before my being graced this earth, moved me in a moment of nostalgia. I was happy that MLB decided to host this year’s game at the Old Yankee Stadium, rather than, waiting until 2010’s game at the New Yankee Stadium. As baseball goes, the next All-Star game at the Yankee’s home park should not occur for another thirty years. Sometimes the old is worth retaining. Other times, the former needs to be released and the new necessarily should be ushered in!

Well defined within our Michigan history is a family right’s movement that began thirty plus years ago with folks like Al Lebow. Al, along with others, began to challenge the Family Court’s determination in establishing one parent as non-custodial. They laid the foundation for the reform that is our agenda today. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you Al for your years of dedication and service for our children’s sake.

Al was not alone in his endeavors. Today, thirty plus years later, Michigan’s family rights movement boasts of membership in the tens of thousands. A visit to the web shows groups meeting every day of the week. There are social programs, education programs, legal help programs and more. All for the individual caught up in Family Court! While most groups have a particular agenda- Children Need Both Parents, SplitNTwo, Get Off The Bench, A Child’s Right, Family Rights Coalition, Dads and Moms of Michigan, Fathers For Justice and the list goes on. Most of these groups have undergone a metamorphosis lately. Recently posted on a local family rights blog was the following apropos statement,
“A new generation of professionals, well educated, well trained and just the right amount of pissed off, have taken up the mantle through advocacy to dissemble corrupt government at its core! Along with, assuming the responsibility to- educate, train and mentor individuals to claim/ assert their unalienable rights whether in family courts, in states' courts, in federal courts, in states' legislatures, in federal legislature or, most importantly, at the ballot box!”

I cannot agree more. Today’s professional has put career, financial security and the pleasure principle on hold, in order to wage war against our government in its kidnapping of our children. But, we have not stopped there! We have claimed all elements of governmental corruption as our agenda. None is safe from our exposure. We have aligned with any/ all groups. We know no lines of distinction, save the people’s right to control and cause to submit those who shall be our servants- our elected officials!

In August, on the 15th and 16th, all citizens shall gather together at Upper Senate Park in our Nation’s Capital to voice both our concerns and our grievances to our US Government, to We The People and to the Public Media. Law makers, law enforcers, personalities, experts and professionals shall be in attenDeletece. US Citizens of all genders, races, political persuasions and social economic statuses shall declare, in one collective voice, their demand for an immediate, none mitigating reform of government as we know it! Join us! Your attenDeletece is necessary! Your input is invaluable!

For more information regarding DC Festival 2008 visit www.dcfestival2008.com

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DC Festival 2008 Continues Under the Leadership of Lary Holland and Numerous Organizations

We are proud of the efforts of Lary Holland and numerous other organizations sending a message to the ACFC that this event will continue!  We applaud this courageous effort to make sure that the voices of those concerned over the right to parent and excessive government intrusion will not go unheard.

If you are an individual or organization we ask that you send a letter of support to Lary Holland and the DC Festival 2008 Team at laryholland@sbcglobal.net.  A growing number of organizations have already signed on in support of this important effort!  Make your support known now by sending your letter of support. 

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When and Where?

Why should you support this effort, attend it and encourage others to attend as well?

Tonight 8PM EST Equal Parenting Bike Trek Cyclist Robert Pedersen on "Get Off The Bench" Talkshow

Please join us tonight at 8PM EST on the popular talkshow "Get Off The Bench".  What is this talkshow about?  Listen to this:

Call in or listen on your computer tonight as host Lary Holland interviews Equal Parenting Bike Trek Cyclist Robert Pedersen.

Call into the talkshow today at 8PM : 724-444-7444 TALKCAST ID: 43507

Or listen on your computer by getting a talkshoe account.

Be sure to also check out Lary Holland's Family Court Reports.

View the always updating list of media and new media coverage of the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek.