PAW PAW, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Mark Linder of Paw Paw is preparing for a truly epic bicycle ride starting in May along the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route.

That is 3,000 from Banff, Alberta in Canada to Antelope Wells, New Mexico and it has more than 200,000 feet of elevation change.

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Linder is doing it in honor of his late son, Kevin, who died at five-years-old from neuroblastoma cancer in 2013. He says Kevin never gave up, loved anything with an engine, and loved riding his bike up and down the driveway.

Mark Linder is raising $50,000 for three organizations that help kids fight cancer.