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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a pretty cool thing. We got two guys,
the Jenkins brothers, Rally and Bobby, who on June twentieth
are going to start a fifty five hundred mile eighty
six day bike ride. It's going to start from Alaska
and end in College Station. So we got Roley Jenkins
(00:21):
right on the phone with us right now, and Raley,
thank you so much for joining us. My question to
you is this, who came up with the idea.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, so we've done this before. So back in two
thousand and eight, we rode our bicycles from Austin, Texas
to Calgary, Canada, and that was just we thought that
was crazy and off the charts. And then in twenty
seventeen we did it for two big missions that are
really important to us, HAITI as well as SUDC. And
(00:53):
we'll talk about that in a second, but we rode
from Seattle to New York and that was our biggest one.
Then we got finished with it, we said, man, we're
all getting ready to you know, be over sixty five,
and we want to do something even more epic that
would would gain even more attention, that would help us,
you know, raise money, raise attention, raise awareness of the
(01:14):
commissions that were really out there peddling for By the way.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I should mention, of course that Roly is the president
of ABC Home and Commercial Services here in the Houston area.
And okay, so Seattle that, like you said, Seattle was
kind of epic, and now you've got to pack everything
up and get to Alaska. So obviously that's not an
easy thing to do. So how are we getting all
(01:39):
your equipment from here in wonderful, beautiful Houston, Texas up
to Anchorage, Alaska. I know, I know you're stopping in Seattle,
because that's got to be that's at least the one
stop that I know you're going to make.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, that's halfway. But yeah, so we we bought an
RV and we had it all signed real neat to
talk about our mission, and the it is actually in
Alaska now. So when we leave on Monday morning to
head to fly to Anchorage, uh, you know, we'll greet
it there and then we'll all kind of do our
(02:14):
first round of shopping and then get ready to start peddling.
But every time you said that, every you know, every
every time I hear that, this sense and be a
challenge in front of us. My gut just wrenches itself.
I'm just going you know, I just know without a
doubt it is bigger than we are and the causes
are bigger than we are. So it really dwarfs us
(02:38):
when we think about a the rides and be the
reasons for the ride.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Let's talk about the reasons for the ride. Who are
you guys raising money for?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So my other older brother who has ABC in Austin,
Texas and West Texas. In two thousand and seven, his grandson,
Moss Pratt went to take a nap and when he
laid down for a n app, it was time for
him to get up, and he never woke up. He
wasn't sick, he didn't have any symptoms or anything. And
(03:09):
I just rocked our whole family and especially Bobby and Jan,
the grandparents and then the mom and dad, Jessicain and
Jay Parratt. So there's a sudden, unexpected death and children,
and this has been going on for a lot of
years that they've been kind of gathering data and it's
at NYC and so they're doing the research. We're raising
(03:31):
funds for that research to be done so that families
and children don't have to go through this anymore. It
would be great to find a way to understand the
symptoms that are going on so you can be in
front of it and stop that from happening all together.
So it really when we do this ride that the
thought of moss, the thought of families going through that again,
(03:53):
that will be with us every day that we write.
And the other one is in twenty ten, I got
involved in Haiti. I got called out there as the
president of the National Pest Control Association. I got called
out there to try to evaluate and see from a
pest control standpoint what could be done. We got finished
with the project that we did, and I remember sitting
underneath the tree and just kind of reflecting on what
(04:14):
we've done. I wanted to go good. I'm done. I'll
never be back to Haiti ever again. And Haiti just
grabbed my heart. I can see all the chaos and
the devastation that's going under a from the earthquake, and
now because of all the gains and all the total
disruption to the government, it's even worse in my opinion.
So it's really to raise awareness. There are some great,
(04:35):
amazing people, children and adults that are in Haiti that
desperately need our attention and help. And so that's my
focus is really to say, Haiti, we're still with you.
We'ven give it up on you. We want you to
be self sustained and stand on your own and there's
a way to get there. And we've made progress before
and we just lost a lot of traction all over
(04:56):
the last well since twenty twenty. We get back on
it and make things better and Haiti, as best we can.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You've done rides like this before. Now let's talk about
the physical demand. You know, I don't know if you
want to give everybody your age on here, but you're
certainly older than I am, and I'm going to be
fifty four next month. So do you have to get
like the okay from the doctors to do this?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So yes, I'm turning sixty five right now on this trip,
and so I will say yes. I went to my doctor,
my primary and all the others and said, all right,
this is what I'm doing, and we got their encouragement.
You know, they kind of gave us some tale tale
science to look for as you go so that you
don't do any damage to yourself. But you know, we're
(05:39):
in it. We are in it to make this thing
as big an epic as we can, and to carry
that banner across our country and Canada in this next
eighty days. It's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's the thing that's crazy. It's an eighty six day
ride fifty five hundred miles. How else did you guys
have to do in order to make it?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So I'm actually sitting down right now and charting out
the last bit of the ride. So it's about seventy
five miles on average a day. So we'll ride five
hours each day, and then we'll stop and set up
camp with the RV, and then we'll have dinner at
rest up and then get ready and do to get tomorrow.
(06:23):
We refer it back to it as groundhop day because
every day just looks like the day prior. So we
just are going to push it and make it. And
you know, we'll talk to radio stations, TV stations, newspapers
all along the way, telling our stories about Haiti and SUDC.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That's amazing, and I know that, you know, if everything
goes according to plan, you'll finish in college station. At
least are they going to let you finish on Kyle
Field or near Kylefield because that would be pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, And so first of all, I don't know a
better spot to stop this ride other than on Kyle
Field on Game Day. So we'll be there September sixth,
on gam Day on Saturday, and we'll be able to
make you know, a bit of a splash as we
get there. We're working on the details now, but it's
going to be big. You know, one hundred thousand of
(07:13):
my best friends will be there.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
How can people track you? Guys?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So go to Brothersbike dot org. That's Brothersbike dot org
and you'll be able to see our website. You'll be
able to we'll be blogging into it on a daily basis,
and you'll also be able to contribute if you wish,
to one of the two or both of the other
missions that we're running for.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
All right, and the good thing is you and I
are going to be talking at least five more times
throughout this. Throughout this. At one point we got to
get your brother on the phone with us and have
a three way conversation so to speak.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
That is perfect. I mean, we'll all be together.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
We'll be as.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Close as brothers could be. So yeah, i'd love for
him to join us and we'll talk about our trials
and tribulations on this ride. They'll be big stuffing, there'll
be some other stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
How many people are on the team supporting you.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So it's my brother and I and then two other
gentlemen who are older than we are. They'll drive the
RV on one day and then ride their bike the
next day. One of them has been with my family
since junior high and the other one has been with
ABC since gosh, I would say he's been there for
forty three years. So it's a bunch of older guys,
(08:27):
not old, but older guys now trucking it across the country.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And I like to tell my wife, because I'm a
distance runner myself, I said, I say, I'm not dead.
I'm older, but I'm not dead. And I think you guys,
first of all, complete honesty. I never learned to ride
a bike as a kid. I fell once when I
was like four or five years old. My father, may
he rest in peace, did not have the He couldn't
(08:53):
bear to, you know, make me cry, so to speak,
so he didn't want to put me back on the bike.
But now you know, running half marathons is half enough.
I can't even imagine the physical demands that a fifty
five hundred mile bike ride is going to take. How
much recovery are you guys gonna need when this is
all done.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I mean, we're all training hard right now to finish
up to the end of this week to be prepared
for it, and we're going to do recovery every night.
We'll eat right, we'll sleep, ride, and we'll be in
hydrate right, and we'll be ready for each day. I mean, fortunately,
this isn't our first one, our first bike ride, pony
ride or whatever, so we're we're gonna be ready for it.
(09:36):
We're focused on this and so and very excited. I mean,
the countryside is just gonna be amazing. I mean all
through Canada, all through Alaska, all through Seattle in California,
It's just it's going to be beautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
How much do you get to really take in the
sites when you're on the bike like that, other than
because I know, if I'm doing a scenic run, if
it gets hard, like if I do a ramto, I
can't really take in the you know, spectators on the
sideline there, just because I'm concentrating on what I'm doing.
How hard is it to really appreciate the beauty that
(10:13):
you'll see along the way.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So, first of all, when we ride, especially if there's
any wind, we ride in tandem, so we're about you know,
twelve inches to two feet apart from each other to
kind of break the wind with the first guy, and
everybody else gets to kind of enjoy a little bit
less wind. So you're staring at you either tired or
either the day, but now you're still you're staking peaks
(10:40):
as you go, you're looking around and join the countryside,
we'll be you know, camping out and just really enjoying
nature at another level. This is again it's an epic ride.
We're going to see some of the most beautiful parts
of the United States and are so excited about it.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
All right, and one more time, tell everybody how they
can help you raise the money and for the causes
that you guys are running for.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yes, Brothersbike dot Org. Just go on to that site.
You'll see some of our blogs as we go, and
then you'll see uh SU DC or Mospratt Foundation, and
you'll see Mission Lazarus, the two missions that we're writing
for for Haiti and for children in the United States,
This is a pretty cool thing. We got two guys,
the Jenkins brothers, Rally and Bobby, who on June twentieth
are going to start a fifty five hundred mile eighty
six day bike ride. It's going to start from Alaska
and end in College Station. So we got Roley Jenkins
(00:21):
right on the phone with us right now, and Raley,
thank you so much for joining us. My question to
you is this, who came up with the idea.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, so we've done this before. So back in two
thousand and eight, we rode our bicycles from Austin, Texas
to Calgary, Canada, and that was just we thought that
was crazy and off the charts. And then in twenty
seventeen we did it for two big missions that are
really important to us, HAITI as well as SUDC. And
(00:53):
we'll talk about that in a second, but we rode
from Seattle to New York and that was our biggest one.
Then we got finished with it, we said, man, we're
all getting ready to you know, be over sixty five,
and we want to do something even more epic that
would would gain even more attention, that would help us,
you know, raise money, raise attention, raise awareness of the
(01:14):
commissions that were really out there peddling for By the way.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I should mention, of course that Roly is the president
of ABC Home and Commercial Services here in the Houston area.
And okay, so Seattle that, like you said, Seattle was
kind of epic, and now you've got to pack everything
up and get to Alaska. So obviously that's not an
easy thing to do. So how are we getting all
(01:39):
your equipment from here in wonderful, beautiful Houston, Texas up
to Anchorage, Alaska. I know, I know you're stopping in Seattle,
because that's got to be that's at least the one
stop that I know you're going to make.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, that's halfway. But yeah, so we we bought an
RV and we had it all signed real neat to
talk about our mission, and the it is actually in
Alaska now. So when we leave on Monday morning to
head to fly to Anchorage, uh, you know, we'll greet
it there and then we'll all kind of do our
(02:14):
first round of shopping and then get ready to start peddling.
But every time you said that, every you know, every
every time I hear that, this sense and be a
challenge in front of us. My gut just wrenches itself.
I'm just going you know, I just know without a
doubt it is bigger than we are and the causes
are bigger than we are. So it really dwarfs us
(02:38):
when we think about a the rides and be the
reasons for the ride.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Let's talk about the reasons for the ride. Who are
you guys raising money for?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So my other older brother who has ABC in Austin,
Texas and West Texas. In two thousand and seven, his grandson,
Moss Pratt went to take a nap and when he
laid down for a n app, it was time for
him to get up, and he never woke up. He
wasn't sick, he didn't have any symptoms or anything. And
(03:09):
I just rocked our whole family and especially Bobby and Jan,
the grandparents and then the mom and dad, Jessicain and
Jay Parratt. So there's a sudden, unexpected death and children,
and this has been going on for a lot of
years that they've been kind of gathering data and it's
at NYC and so they're doing the research. We're raising
(03:31):
funds for that research to be done so that families
and children don't have to go through this anymore. It
would be great to find a way to understand the
symptoms that are going on so you can be in
front of it and stop that from happening all together.
So it really when we do this ride that the
thought of moss, the thought of families going through that again,
(03:53):
that will be with us every day that we write.
And the other one is in twenty ten, I got
involved in Haiti. I got called out there as the
president of the National Pest Control Association. I got called
out there to try to evaluate and see from a
pest control standpoint what could be done. We got finished
with the project that we did, and I remember sitting
underneath the tree and just kind of reflecting on what
(04:14):
we've done. I wanted to go good. I'm done. I'll
never be back to Haiti ever again. And Haiti just
grabbed my heart. I can see all the chaos and
the devastation that's going under a from the earthquake, and
now because of all the gains and all the total
disruption to the government, it's even worse in my opinion.
So it's really to raise awareness. There are some great,
(04:35):
amazing people, children and adults that are in Haiti that
desperately need our attention and help. And so that's my
focus is really to say, Haiti, we're still with you.
We'ven give it up on you. We want you to
be self sustained and stand on your own and there's
a way to get there. And we've made progress before
and we just lost a lot of traction all over
(04:56):
the last well since twenty twenty. We get back on
it and make things better and Haiti, as best we can.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You've done rides like this before. Now let's talk about
the physical demand. You know, I don't know if you
want to give everybody your age on here, but you're
certainly older than I am, and I'm going to be
fifty four next month. So do you have to get
like the okay from the doctors to do this?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So yes, I'm turning sixty five right now on this trip,
and so I will say yes. I went to my doctor,
my primary and all the others and said, all right,
this is what I'm doing, and we got their encouragement.
You know, they kind of gave us some tale tale
science to look for as you go so that you
don't do any damage to yourself. But you know, we're
(05:39):
in it. We are in it to make this thing
as big an epic as we can, and to carry
that banner across our country and Canada in this next
eighty days. It's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's the thing that's crazy. It's an eighty six day
ride fifty five hundred miles. How else did you guys
have to do in order to make it?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So I'm actually sitting down right now and charting out
the last bit of the ride. So it's about seventy
five miles on average a day. So we'll ride five
hours each day, and then we'll stop and set up
camp with the RV, and then we'll have dinner at
rest up and then get ready and do to get tomorrow.
(06:23):
We refer it back to it as groundhop day because
every day just looks like the day prior. So we
just are going to push it and make it. And
you know, we'll talk to radio stations, TV stations, newspapers
all along the way, telling our stories about Haiti and SUDC.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That's amazing, and I know that, you know, if everything
goes according to plan, you'll finish in college station. At
least are they going to let you finish on Kyle
Field or near Kylefield because that would be pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, And so first of all, I don't know a
better spot to stop this ride other than on Kyle
Field on Game Day. So we'll be there September sixth,
on gam Day on Saturday, and we'll be able to
make you know, a bit of a splash as we
get there. We're working on the details now, but it's
going to be big. You know, one hundred thousand of
(07:13):
my best friends will be there.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
How can people track you? Guys?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So go to Brothersbike dot org. That's Brothersbike dot org
and you'll be able to see our website. You'll be
able to we'll be blogging into it on a daily basis,
and you'll also be able to contribute if you wish,
to one of the two or both of the other
missions that we're running for.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
All right, and the good thing is you and I
are going to be talking at least five more times
throughout this. Throughout this. At one point we got to
get your brother on the phone with us and have
a three way conversation so to speak.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
That is perfect. I mean, we'll all be together.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
We'll be as.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Close as brothers could be. So yeah, i'd love for
him to join us and we'll talk about our trials
and tribulations on this ride. They'll be big stuffing, there'll
be some other stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
How many people are on the team supporting you.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So it's my brother and I and then two other
gentlemen who are older than we are. They'll drive the
RV on one day and then ride their bike the
next day. One of them has been with my family
since junior high and the other one has been with
ABC since gosh, I would say he's been there for
forty three years. So it's a bunch of older guys,
(08:27):
not old, but older guys now trucking it across the country.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And I like to tell my wife, because I'm a
distance runner myself, I said, I say, I'm not dead.
I'm older, but I'm not dead. And I think you guys,
first of all, complete honesty. I never learned to ride
a bike as a kid. I fell once when I
was like four or five years old. My father, may
he rest in peace, did not have the He couldn't
(08:53):
bear to, you know, make me cry, so to speak,
so he didn't want to put me back on the bike.
But now you know, running half marathons is half enough.
I can't even imagine the physical demands that a fifty
five hundred mile bike ride is going to take. How
much recovery are you guys gonna need when this is
all done.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I mean, we're all training hard right now to finish
up to the end of this week to be prepared
for it, and we're going to do recovery every night.
We'll eat right, we'll sleep, ride, and we'll be in
hydrate right, and we'll be ready for each day. I mean, fortunately,
this isn't our first one, our first bike ride, pony
ride or whatever, so we're we're gonna be ready for it.
(09:36):
We're focused on this and so and very excited. I mean,
the countryside is just gonna be amazing. I mean all
through Canada, all through Alaska, all through Seattle in California,
It's just it's going to be beautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
How much do you get to really take in the
sites when you're on the bike like that, other than
because I know, if I'm doing a scenic run, if
it gets hard, like if I do a ramto, I
can't really take in the you know, spectators on the
sideline there, just because I'm concentrating on what I'm doing.
How hard is it to really appreciate the beauty that
(10:13):
you'll see along the way.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So, first of all, when we ride, especially if there's
any wind, we ride in tandem, so we're about you know,
twelve inches to two feet apart from each other to
kind of break the wind with the first guy, and
everybody else gets to kind of enjoy a little bit
less wind. So you're staring at you either tired or
either the day, but now you're still you're staking peaks
(10:40):
as you go, you're looking around and join the countryside,
we'll be you know, camping out and just really enjoying
nature at another level. This is again it's an epic ride.
We're going to see some of the most beautiful parts
of the United States and are so excited about it.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
All right, and one more time, tell everybody how they
can help you raise the money and for the causes
that you guys are running for.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yes, Brothersbike dot Org. Just go on to that site.
You'll see some of our blogs as we go, and
then you'll see uh SU DC or Mospratt Foundation, and
you'll see Mission Lazarus, the two missions that we're writing
for for Haiti and for children in the United States,
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