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Team captain guide
Welcome! As a Cycle for Survival team captain, you lead the charge — recruiting riders, sharing event info, organizing the rider schedule, and bringing the energy on ride day. Thank you for rallying your team and helping power rare cancer breakthroughs!
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Step 1
Build your team
Register your team and recruit members for an unforgettable event.
Start strong by registering bikes based on your team size. Invite friends, family, and coworkers, and remember, no experience is needed to ride! Your passion to fight rare cancers can inspire others, so be sure to share why you ride.
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Choose the right number of bikes
Register bikes to match your team size, typically 4-8 riders per bike. If plans change, our team can help.
Recruit your riders
Invite everyone to join your cause. No cycling experience is needed. The more people who support rare cancer research, the better!
Personalize your participant center
Customize your team and personal fundraising pages by sharing why you ride to inspire donors, recruit teammates, and kick-start your fundraising efforts.
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Step 2
Boost your fundraising
Supercharge your fundraising with smart sharing and powerful incentives.
Fuel your team’s impact by sharing your fundraising page across email, text, and social media. Make sharing easy by personalizing your fundraising page link in your participant center and generating a QR code directly from your fundraising page. Encourage corporate matching gifts and share fundraising match opportunities to motivate donors and teammates, maximizing your impact.
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Share your fundraising page — everywhere
Use email, text, and social media to share your fundraising page and rally support. Find downloadable assets and email templates to help.
Make sharing easy with custom URLs and QR codes
Personalize your fundraising page link in your participant center and create a QR code directly from your fundraising page for quick, easy sharing.
Double your impact with matching gifts
Encourage donors to use matching gift programs to multiply their support and accelerate rare cancer research.
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Step 3
Rally your team
Ignite team spirit with creative swag and exclusive gear.
Keep the energy high by rallying your team around fun gear or creative shirts from Custom Ink. Inspire your team to stay engaged, reach fundraising milestones, and earn exclusive swag rewards, thanks to NOBULL, the Official Performance Apparel Sponsor of Cycle for Survival. Find templates, graphics, and other tools on our participant resources page.
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Boost team spirit with custom gear
You can create team shirts using code cycleforsurvival on Custom Ink — 10% of sales support the cause!
Earn exclusive gear
Reach fundraising milestones to claim apparel and accessories from NOBULL, the Official Performance Apparel Sponsor of Cycle for Survival and a proud partner in the movement to beat rare cancers.
Access fundraising resources
Explore ready-made emails, social posts, printables, and downloadable logos to energize your team and boost fundraising.
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Step 4
Plan your ride
Organize your team’s ride schedule for a smooth event day.
Plan ahead by ensuring all riders are registered for your team online. Then, use the bike schedule builder to assign riders to a 50-minute segment for a seamless experience. Using the bike schedule is optional, but thoughtful scheduling keeps everyone engaged and organized!
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Confirm all riders are registered
Remind teammates to join your team by registering online. Then, assign them ride shifts for seamless event participation.
Think about ride shifts
Divide your ride into 50-minute segments to keep energy high. If needed, riders can take multiple turns and ride in 25-minute increments!
Complete a rider schedule
Before your event, use our bike schedule builder tool to assign a ride time to each team member. Once complete, share the rider schedule with your team so that they can plan and prepare accordingly.
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Step 5
Take it to the next level
Celebrate milestones and see the impact of everything you and your team make possible.
Keep your team engaged by sharing fundraising updates, celebrating successes, and encouraging supporters to give. Every dollar raised helps fuel rare cancer research at MSK and brings you closer to your fundraising goals.
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Send updates and celebrate wins
Regularly update your team with fundraising progress and shout-outs to keep morale and energy high.
Keep fundraising!
Fundraising pages stay open until April 15, and 100% of funds raised support rare cancer research at MSK.
Celebrate your leadership and impact
Your dedication drives real progress. Celebrate your team’s success and all you make possible!
Research Story
Fueling Rare Discovery
Discover how 20 years of HOPP and Cycle for Survival have advanced rare cancer research, precision oncology, immunotherapy, and lifesaving treatments at MSK.
Supporter story
A decade with meaning
Melissa Macaluso has been participating in Cycle for Survival for over 10 years in support of her late twin sister, Megan. She is proud to be one of the program’s dedicated Decade Riders.
Patient Story
Journey of hope
In 2021, 3-month-old Cameron Cavagnaro was diagnosed with leukemia. Treated at MSK Kids, he overcame the disease. Today, Cameron enjoys puzzles and Legos. Inspired by his son's fight, Jeff started team Cameron Tough to support cancer research at MSK.
Thank you to our Signature Sponsors
Take action. Make an impact. Your way.
Find an event
Explore the lineup of all events and choose how you’d like to participate.
Ride with us
Get more information about our events, how to participate, and the impact of your fundraising.
Fundraising resources
Once you’re registered, use these resources to make a bigger impact and prepare for your event!