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Road 2 Recovery

Matching Donation Campaign

MotoSport.Com gives back to the rider. MotoSport.com will match our customers $1 donations, dollar-for-dollar - up to $20,000 every year total for all of our charitable causes. Through the generosity of our customers and dollar-for-dollar match, MotoSport.com has been able to give Road-2-Recovery $34,682 to date!

The positive impact of the RiderDown/MotoSport.com relationship has propelled MotoSport.com to find additional avenues of assisting and protecting motorcycle and ATV enthusiasts. In addition to RiderDown, MotoSport.com has partnered with the Roadracing World Action Fund to help support their promotion of road racing safety, and Road 2 Recovery to give assistance, much like the RiderDown Foundation, in the professional Supercross and Motocross racing series.

For more information visit RiderDown Foundation, Roadracing World Action Fund or Road 2 Recovery

Road 2 Recovery Mission

To provide financial assistance to AMA licensed professional motocross/supercross riders in the event they sustain career ending injuries. Alongside the racers the Foundation is dedicated to providing emotional and spiritual support to the families. Continue acting as a pathway for the motocross public and its supporters to donate funds to be issued to injured racers.

Leighton Lillie Ryan Hughes Ryan Morais

Leighton Lillie, Ryan Hughes, and Ryan Morais are three of many riders who have received assistance from the Road 2 Recovery Foundation.

How It All Got Started

Jimmy Button lived and breathed motorcycles and had his whole future ahead of him. He was 26 years old and was starting his 10th year as a professional motocross rider, his 2nd year with factory Yamaha. However, on January 22, 2000 his whole life would drastically change in a split second. While practicing for the evenings Supercross race at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, Jimmy went down in the whoop section and immediately went numb. As Jimmy lay there the fans and his teammates watched silently as he was carried off the track.

That evening his family and friends were told he would probably never walk again. He had bruised his spinal cord at his 2nd and 3rd vertebrae and was paralyzed from the neck down.

What the doctors did not know was how powerful Jimmys spirit and courage were. He came back not to ride again but to win something much bigger, to win the race of walking again.

Following his injury Jimmy was left in a very difficult situation, both physically and financially. Since a riders union didnt exist there was a critical need for an organization that could provide financial and emotional assistance when an extreme situation arose.

In the fall of 2000 Bob Moore, Bob Walker, and Jimmy Button created the Road 2 Recovery Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization to enhance the sport of motocross through assistance to AMA licensed professional Motocross and Supercross riders who sustain career ending injuries.

Vision Statement

To become the leading safety research and education organization for professional and amateur motocross racing by developing partnerships within the motorcycle industry to impact track design changes and rider safety equipment for the sport.

Become large enough to completely provide for a rider for the duration of their life if they are unable to generate revenue again.

Provide a mobile safety and education unit that would travel the amateur national circuit providing licensed sports doctors and trainers to those racers.

Provide a $250,000 insurance policy to the professional AMA SX and MX series benefiting a rider should they be injured.

Become large enough to completely provide for a rider for the duration of their life if they are unable to generate revenue again.