Digby rally attracts cross-country effort

From Belt Drive Betty

GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB & DIGBY, NS -- In early August a group of passionate motorcycle riders will leave Grand Prairie, AB and ride across Canada to the Wharf Rat Rally, Canada's biggest motorcycle rally in Digby, NS.

Belt Drive Betty from the Busted Knuckle Chronicles, along with Mike Cole from the Winter Ride for Diabetes, will raise funds for the Give the Kids the World Village for terminally ill kids in Orlando, FL 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 on the way to Toronto to join Shaun de Jager from Road Awareness. Then to Petawawa, Ottawa, Montreal, Moncton and Halifax. The last stop will be Digby for the Sept. 1 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,” said Glenn Dunn, Chairman, Wharf Rat Rally.

The Wharf Rat Rally is a Digby, NS-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 being 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.