February 25, 2010 – Grande Prairie Alberta and Digby Nova Scotia: In early August 2010 a group of passionate motorcycle riders will leave Grand Prairie Alberta and ride across Canada to the Wharf Rat Rally, Canada’s biggest motorcycle rally in Digby Nova Scotia.

Belt Drive Betty from the Busted Knuckle Chronicles, along with Mike Cole from the Winter Ride for Diabetes, will be heading out from Grande Prairie Alberta to Canada’s Largest Motorcycle Rally – the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby Nova Scotia. Together these riders are going to raise funds for the Give the Kids the World Village for terminally ill kids in Orlando Florida and bring awareness to other causes that they support.

Along the way they will hook-up with comedian Daryl Makk and his Planet Tour in Regina mid-August. The riders will make stops in Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Sault St Marie and Barrie. From Barrie the conga will head to Toronto to join Shaun de Jager from RoadAwareness.org. Then to Petawawa, Ottawa, Montreal, Moncton and Halifax. The last stop will be Digby for the September 1st opening of the Wharf Rat Rally. Along the way the kids from the Bernice MacNaughton High School Bike Klub of Moncton and their Championship Motorcycle Bobber – Betty, will meet up with the riders for the last leg into Digby.

“This will be an incredible ride, which will attract hundreds of motorcycle riders to a worthy cause and have them join a conga type line as it travels across Canada.” says Glenn Dunn, Chairman, Wharf Rat Rally. Peter Robertson, co-founder and executive director of the Wharf Rat Rally says; “Belt Drive Betty and I first started taking about an awareness ride across Canada in 2009 and now it has come to fruition.” “The interest has been tremendous. Along the way hundreds of riders will join up with the awareness riders for a few hours to a few days” says Belt Drive Betty.

Ben Cleveland, the Mayor of Digby says; “We pleased and proud that an event of this magnitude takes place in Digby, Nova Scotia.” “Intergy eMarketing and Reservation service of Bedford Nova Scotia is providing a toll free “One Call Does It All” service to book hotels homes for riders coming to the Wharf Rat Rally from all over Canada and the USA” says Clark Squires, Vice President of Intergy. “Intergy’s www.GoTravelCanada.com and Pacrim Hospitality of Bedford have stepped up to provide a national hotel booking website says Squires.

The Wharf Rat Rally is a Digby Nova Scotia based five day event presented by the not-for-profit Wharf Rat Rally Motorcycle Association. Now in its sixth year, attendance has grown from 10,000 in 2005 to a projected to attract 94,000 in 2010 making it one of Nova Scotia’s largest tourism events and the largest motorcycle rally in Canada. The event has been the recipient of the Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia (TIANS) Ambassador Award in 2009 and the Motorcycle Regional Award of the North American International Motorcycle Supershow.