Unbelievable

I don’t have much time so I am going to make this quick.

The Fat Cyclist jokingly applied for a job as a pro racer with Team RadioShack (think Lance Armstrong), the GM of Team Radioshack (Johan) took him up on it but only if he could raise $20K in a week in donations to LiveStrong and World Bicycle Relief (WBR) fund.

In something like 48 hours the amazing community of Fat Cyclist readers breached that goal and Johan upped the ante, giving Fatty a Trek Madone (REALLY nice race bike) if he made a total of $25K in WBR.

Fatty turned around and put that bike up as a prize in a raffle that you get an entry into the drawing for every $5 you donate. He (and Gary Fisher) also donated a Gary Fisher Superfly (REALLY nice road bike) in the mix if donations reached $25K to LiveStrong.

The ink was literally barely dry, one couldn’t even write a post about THAT contest and the $25K goals were met in both – somebody will win a Madone and somebody will win a SuperFly (custom painted in Fatty colors).

So Trek upped the ante again – doubled it. If Fatty could get $100K in combined donations to LiveStrong and WBR then they would send one lucky donater to Paris to watch the end of the Tour de France in 2010, all expenses paid.

AND as of right now, with still Wed, Thu, and Fri to go, the combined total is north of $93 THOUSAND!

Fatty is a money raising “dynamo” as one of his commenters put it.
LiveStrong (cancer) and WBR (bikes for kids in Africa) are getting huge donation influxes for excellent causes.
Somebodies are going to win some awesome prizes.
Fatty is going to train with TeamRadioShack for a day this coming weekend (the original bet).

And this is just freakin fun to watch transpire.

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