{"id":684038,"date":"2026-05-20T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684038\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:59:08","slug":"yes-we-can-cycling-set-to-embark-on-most-ambitious-charity-ride-yet-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684038\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes We Can Cycling set to embark on most ambitious charity ride yet \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Brad Serot, clipping into a road bike and hitting the pavement is personal, and it became a key emotional outlet for him. <\/p>\n

Now, he’s hoping that outlet can benefit others. <\/p>\n

The Winnetka father of four picked up cycling about six years ago, in the middle of a divorce and the COVID-19 pandemic. He had never been on a road bike before.<\/p>\n

“It is an emotional outlet, a release for me, personally,” said Serot.<\/p>\n

At home, he was also raising his four children, including his daughter Ava, who lives with both cerebral palsy and epilepsy.<\/p>\n

“She is resilient and an inspiration to me, her brothers and sisters, and she’s a fighter,” said Serot.<\/p>\n

What started as a way to clear his head turned into something bigger. Serot had an idea: build a team and ride for a cause.<\/p>\n

“Yes We Can Cycling<\/a>” launched with just five members, all riding to raise money for Easterseals, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago.<\/p>\n

For team member Michael Berger, the mission hits close to home.<\/p>\n

“I think about others who live with a physical challenge, and they don’t get the choice when they wake up in the morning as to whether or not they want that physical challenge to be there,” Berger said.<\/p>\n

The team has kept growing. It is now more than 20 riders strong, with a goal of raising $3 million this year. Serot says that kind of expansion was never the plan. Asked whether building an entire team was his original goal, his answer was simple: “No.”<\/p>\n

Now the group is preparing for its biggest challenge yet, the SBT GRVL race in Colorado, a course of more than 100 miles. Every pedal stroke, Serot said, brings the team closer to its goal.<\/p>\n

“I can try to make a difference for her, and if we can help others in the process, even better,” he said.<\/p>\n

For Serot, the ride goes far beyond the course, with his motivation always in mind.<\/p>\n

If you would like to support the team, click here<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Brad Serot, clipping into a road bike and hitting the pavement is personal, and it became a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,10881,784,85],"class_list":["post-684038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charity","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}