Last year you/we raised over $90,000 USD in the quest to FCANCERUP and in the seven years that we've been working on this campaign, we've raised over $430K. Up for raffle is an exclusive FCANCERUP Evil Offering equipped with XTR and Fox goods + a host of other prizes. Donate what you can and know that 100% of the money goes directly to the 501c3 non-profit Young Survival Coalition. Doing something good while getting a chance to win some sweet prizes… a win-win situation!
Grand Prize:An Evil Offering specially built to generate resources and raise awareness for this disease & to help people living with cancer.
This bike is supported by and is loaded with:
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FOX: 36 with Kashima coating & custom pink decals + Float DPX2 Rear Shock
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SHIMANO: New XTR M9100 group. Your choice of Specs.
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PRO Components: Tharsis Carbon Bar, Tharsis Stem, Saddle, and Grips
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ENVE: M730 wheelset w/ XTR Hubs
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EVIL: Offering - in your choice of available size.
Visit
Evil-Bikes.com for more info on the new Offering.
Other Prizes:Limited Edition GoPro Hero Black 7 - Dusk White
• 3 x pinkbike.com prize packs
• 2 x Anthill Films Swag Pack
For a free F&CK CANCER sticker, visit
www.fcancerup.com/stuff How it works:For every $5 donated between 10-1-19 & Midnight (PST) of 10-22-19, you will earn one chance to win this bike and other prizes. So if you donate $25 that is 5 chances at a bunch of prizes. The winners will be selected from a magical spreadsheet using random.org & will be notified by e-mail. Winner list will be announced on Pinkbike approximately 1 week after the fundraiser ends. We will ship worldwide… Customs fees and other applicable taxes will be the winner’s responsibilities.
100% of Your contribution goes to the YSC which will:• Fund support and education programs for young women affected by breast cancer.
• Help support YSC’s mission to ensure no young woman faces breast cancer alone.
• Raise awareness that young women can and do get breast cancer.
idk..sure? We need to be consuming more plant medicines and especially eating hemp/CBD everything. Helps a lot with complete body performance--really f*cks up that cancer ya heard meah
~Goldstein
Can't PinkBike rent an Evil for couple of days to provide a review ?
Stay strong, and more stubborn than cancer itself!
And since the majority of PB readers are male, wouldn't it make more sense to give the money to a charity fighting against prostate cancer since it already receives 4 times less funding than breast cancer?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Survival_Coalition
prostate.org.nz/2014/01/men-die-earlier-womens-health-gets-four-times-funding
"It means f*ck cancer, son."
"What does f*ck mean, daddy?"
"Oh dear."
Call me old fashioned, but I think they could have come up with a better name for their organisation. It's not exactly classy, is it?
Because our economy is based on free market systems, most likely this CEO would be able to make significantly more in the for profit world. Sacrificing earning potential for a good cause has, realistically, some limitations.
18% into running an organization really isn’t outrageous, either.
Do I hate that some professional "charity organisations" have ripped people off, you bet! The alternative is we don't give at all and that isn't going to help either. As mentioned above, even if only a little gets to the intended people then it's better than nothing at all in my view.
Ever since I heard the Barcelona FC/Unicef money grab and the shocking stats for Oxfam, which spends something pitiful like 5% of revenue on actual causes, I couldn't bring myself to support any organised charities in the west. Poor people in rich countries make rich people in poor countries. And warlords in Africa.
This is slightly different, because they are supporting a charity at home but they've ruined it by having an expletive in the name.
What happens after we f*ck cancer up anyway? Something else will come along and f*ck us up. We are all going to die. The question is not if, but when. If cancer doesn't get you, something else will.
I'm still going to enter though because I really want that bike.
Does it make you a bad person for not giving to charity? HECK NO. But it does prove why donating to charity is still valuable.
Charitable donations are not exempt from falling into the wrong hands ("African Warlords" and whatnot), but neither are your direct contributions to local businesses. A corrupt government will tax that business directly and use the funds to further corruption.
I'm sorry F*ck Cancer offends you in its name. For many of us, its an effective marketing tool to shock the public into awareness and eagerness to act. It doesn't ruin the charity at all, but makes it more effective. Plus you state you don't donate to charity anyway, so why should they cater to you?
Good point on the man-cancer - but then the bike wouldn't have "boobs" on the down tube
If you give $1 to a coconut seller in India, I guarantee you he is keeping more than 1c of that dollar. I appreciate some people don't have the ability to travel much, and for them giving to charity may be their only way to help others less fortunate. As you say, one can spend one's money as one wishes.
now I agree its not very ethical, but that's how it works. the main difference with for-profit (other than donation-based-income) is basically that these don't get taxed and don't have stocks or founders and don't keep money in the bank, but the employees still get a pay check - and for the big non-profits its often a big pay check and "gifts". 140k is actually not near to close as the biggest pay checks I've seen (having worked with non-profits in the US). I'd even say 140k sounds reasonable for a successful non-profit that actually helps - i mean, people still need money to live. There's many small non-profit that are in fact ethical as well.
With that said, you often seen 500k salaries with free cars and paid-for housing in non-profits that don't really do anything good, they just collect donations and claim to do stuff.. of which they do the minimum they can get away with.
And obviously, in the US, you'll see a lot of "foundations" that are owned by political figures because its an easy way to "get paid millions" without officially "getting paid". Also, yes, men's prostate cancer is definitely a bigger issue than breast cancer. but any progress anywhere is good.
note: this bike does look rad regardless.
Try explaining that to a 2 year old with cancer.
No child has ever done anything to deserve that.
I only give money to child cancer causes, I've seen first hand where the money goes and it's worth every $.
If you want good people, you need to pay for them.
I get what they are trying to do, which is have a separate message than all the other non-profits, but F bombs have always dumbed down any message of value...unless there is a balled up fist paired with it and then you know what's happening.
But then I met a guy who ran a non-profit and realized it's a hustle at the same time. He was great at raising REALLY large sums from big regional businesses for a non-profit, he lived a very wealthy life because of it and he traveled in big money circles. All his friends HATED seeing him coming too because they knew they were gonna look like penny pinchers if they didn't buy stuff from him.
He came around once selling tickets to the Olympic Tennis matches in Atlanta for a massive mark up with so much of proceeds going to some good cause. My boss at the time and every other business person in that town bought them out of pure guilt and "one-up manship".
That guy canvassed all of Western NC, Eastern TN, upstate SC & SW Virginia making so much money. I like to think that someone caught up to him eventually....
The CEO lives in New York, where a massive salary probably isn't that massive.
My wife was diagnosed at 35 years old before insurance would cover an mamo or anything like that. Even when she found the lumps, insurance wanted a fight. We won fortunately in part because of org's like YSC who fight for lowering the recommended age for mamo's.
I just spent an hour and a half yesterday having to get my doctor to ORDER the procedure at TWO facilities just so we could get the in network pricing for both because one is Tier 1 & the other is Tier 2.
The tier 1 facility (which is even the hospital my wife is employed by!!!!) refused to tell us their own price for their own employee at their own facility using their own insurance...until the test was ordered.
So now they, the doctor (who was very helpful) and the Tier 2 facility will all pass the cost of all those extra customer service phone call hours on to us the consumer next year.
YSC may have resources for you as well. Find a Cancer Navigator to help get through this, in order to be accredited the cancer center should have a navigator.
My 4 year old baby girl was diagnosed with Retinal Blastoma - a form of cancer that attacks the retina and progress along the optic nerve on the way to the brain. It predominately affects children under the age of four. There are no words to describe what a child and family go through with any type of cancer diagnosis and treatment. We are so very thankful of all that give in any way to help - whether it be monetary or any type of support.
BTW...my baby girl lost an eye an went through 6 months of chemotherapy, but is now 15 years cancer free and a freshman at a prestigious private college in a premed program with med school on the horizon in pursuit of her dream to become a pediatric oncologist. She is my hero!
It doesn't matter what kind of cancer or who it affects or what percentage goes where just as long as it helps someone in their struggle. Just do all you can, anyway you can to help whoever's you can. You may be surprised in how you are able to positively impact our world.
I hope your daughter has a fantastic career in paediatric oncology. I wish her all the success she deserves.
Sounds like she's well on her way. I think she's my hero too. I can't say enough good things about the doctors and nurses that work in this field.
Just greedy people worming their way thru tax loopholes.
When we want to help, there is always a way to ensure you make a big impact with every dollar given.
Yesterday I visited my churches food pantry. Every Tuesday they have a "grocery" store where people come in, check 2 items per category of things they need, then go wait with a drink & snack in a room while volunteers fill everything on that grocery list with donated fresh, frozen, boxed, canned & farmed goods then they drive around to the door to pick it up. It's the first time I realized that people I see at my grocery store & gas station working hard...have families with no food.
Kind of like when those guys call you to donate to the firefighter's and they take a percentage or you can just drop a check to your VFD in the mail sort of thing.
If you've got your card out on the phone when they call...do it if you don't have the time to mail a check direct. Something is always better than zero.
Looking forward to the day when we don’t have have a fundraiser like this, but until then, let’s give.
I know it seems hard to change eating habits, but would you prefer chemo and surgery, or Kale and Carrots? Plenty of high protein plant foods out there. Listen to a podcast by Rich Roll. He is an ultra marathon & Ironman athlete.
My wife is a survivor and organizations like YSC are priceless for those of us dealing with cancer everyday. She posted a great article yesterday. Its from YSC's blog and it's something she faces everyday, thankfully she's over 4 years out from diagnosis but it's not over... This blog is not specific to Young or old or even breast cancer or cancer really it's specific to anyone dealing with any sort of trauma.
blog.youngsurvival.org/cancer-and-ptsd-what-you-need-to-know
"There are a few quibbles, including the lack of water bottle mounts "
maybe they stopped sending them bikes after they complained about water bottles one time too many?
Apparently people don't care if a brand screws people over. Maybe, just maybe the reason why Pinkbike hasn't been sent any Evil's is because they don't want any critical feedback on their bikes and they do not was bike reviewers to bring up their failings as a company.
Based on their entire history, I don't think companies like Evil should even exist. Corporate charter should have been revoked....
Sad that people are willing to vilify Sick bikes but make excuses and rationalizations to justify Evil.....
The winners will be selected from a magical spreadsheet using random.org & will be notified by e-mail. Winner list will be announced on pinkbike.com approx. 1 week after the fundraiser ends."
west.ysctourdepink.org/fcancerup
In fact there are certain types of cancer that are essentially curable such as many leukemias....
There is certainly a pharma bias towards "medicalized" (ie drug/treatment) solutions to health problems instead of prevention, but there is a lot of impressive research being done to treat cancer.