Surrey charity motorcycle and car ride enjoys successful return after multi-year hiatus<\/p>\n
Published 3:00 pm Friday, July 24, 2026<\/p>\n
After a seven-year hiatus, Brenden\u2019s Ride returned July 18. Riders hopped on bikes and into classic cars and drove from Cloverdale to Squamish in support of Camp Easter Seals.<\/p>\n
Sarah Parker, head organizer for the ride, said the event went well for a restart. She said it rained in the morning, which caused them to lose a few riders, but overall they enjoyed a lot of success.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe event itself went so well,\u201d Sarah told the Cloverdale Reporter. \u201cEverything went so smoothly. Everyone was excited to be able to help (Brenden\u2019s ride) grow again.<\/p>\n
Brenden\u2019s Ride supported Camp Easter Seals, located in Sqaumish, this year. The ride\u2014which started off with just motorcycles several years ago, but now includes classic cars\u2014is a fundraiser started by Brenden Parker and his dad Baron Parker in 2014. They wanted to raise money to help defray costs so families that had children with disabilities could continue to send their kids to camp. Brenden, who has cerebral palsy, attended the camp for several years and noticed he was seeing less and less of his friends returning. That\u2019s when he found out the cost to go to the camp kept going up and some families couldn\u2019t afford it. So his idea was to raise funds so those families could send their kids to camp each year.<\/p>\n
Brenden\u2019s Ride ran for six straight years until its COVID-caused cancellation in 2020. The 7th event signalled its annual return. Sadly, in 2025, Baron\u2014a former NHL linesman\u2014passed away. The first six rides raised more than $225,000 for local charities.<\/p>\n
Sarah said the food was great at the breakfast in Cloverdale at Rusty\u2019s pub before the ride started and at the lunch up in Squamish. She said the entertainment and silent auction went well on location at Camp Easter Seals too.<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t have final numbers yet, but she could safely say they raised thousands of dollars for charity.<\/p>\n
Sarah said the Easter Seals wants to combine the next year\u2019s ride with a \u201ccamp open-house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey want to have the campers and their families involved,\u201d she explained. \u201cSo the campers can see the bikes come in, and the riders get to see the people the money\u2019s going to and get to talk to the families, stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah said after Baron passed last year, friends gathered to do a memorial ride for Baron. \u201cBaron\u2019s Last Ride\u201d was the catalyst to get Brenden\u2019s ride going again. One of the organizers there Steve Williams, who was instrumental in bringing in the classic car portion of the ride, unfortunately passed away about two months ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe might do a classic car show at the ride, in memory of him, next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
They had 20 volunteers helping with this year\u2019s ride and they had about three dozen motorcycles and cars participating.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll around, it was very successful,\u201d Sarah added. \u201cEveryone\u2019s excited to do it again next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more info, or to donate funds, visit brendensride.ca, email brendensride@gmail.com, call 604-910-1180, or visit Facebook.com\/brendensride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey charity motorcycle and car ride enjoys successful return after multi-year hiatus Published 3:00 pm Friday, July 24,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-825173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}