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Ride With Marc Sutton

Cycle for Sight 2017 is upon us! To support our many wonderful team members in their rides through Napa this year, we’ve created individual team pages where you can donate and share the story of their ride. To view all the 2017 teams, click here.

I’m riding with James!

A tandem team, piloted by a woman and stoked by a man blaze up an asphalt hill with trees in the background.

When was your first Cycle for Sight? This is my first Cycle for Sight. 


Why do you love riding in Cycle for Sight?
 I love being out on a tandem exploring the countryside. I’m looking forward to meeting other riders and celebrating on the 22nd. 

What’s your best cycling memory? My best cycling memory is hard to come up with because there are so many. Most involve riding along the coast on stretches with no cars. Or flying down a long stretch of road in the early hours of morning.

Donate to Marc’s Ride

You can support his ride across Napa by donating here.

Sign Up to Ride

You can sign up to ride at Cycle4Sight.com. We are aware that the website has some accessibility issues, so if you’d like us to sign you up, email afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org.

Ride With Serena Olsen

Cycle for Sight 2017 is upon us! To support our many wonderful team members in their rides through Napa this year, we’ve created individual team pages where you can donate and share the story of their ride. To view all the 2017 teams, click here.

I’m riding with Sterling!

Two women stand behind their tandem bike, shaded under a tree in a parking lot.

When was your first Cycle for Sight? 2010, I was a brand new transplant to the Bay Area and looking for new adventures of any kind.

Why do you love riding in Cycle for Sight? Who doesn’t love a tour through the warm, fresh air of spring in wine country, followed by outdoor wine tasting?  Sounds like another perfect day in California to me.

What’s your best cycling memory? The loaner tandem my captain and I used in 2010.  The chain fell off as we left the starting gate.  It was rusty and in disrepair, we dubbed it Chitty-Chitty-Bike-Bike.  And then I realized we were riding 25 miles, not 25 kilometers.  We made it to the finish line and a good time was had by all.

What’s your favorite quote? “We are all born to be the hero of our own stories.” – Deepak Chopra

Donate to Serena:

You can support her ride across Napa by donating here.

Sign Up to Ride

You can sign up to ride at Cycle4Sight.com. We are aware that the website has some accessibility issues, so if you’d like us to sign you up, email afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org.

Ride with Jade Bojkovic

Cycle for Sight 2017 is upon us! To support our many wonderful team members in their rides through Napa this year, we’ve created individual team pages where you can donate and share the story of their ride. To view all the 2017 teams, click here.

Young woman stands to the left of her tandem partner behind a bright red bike on a bike road.

When was your first Cycle for Sight? I’ve been involved in cycle for sight since 2013. Last year was my first year doing the tandem ride and Sergio, who pretty much taught me the ropes even though I was the sighted one!

Why do you love riding in Cycle for Sight? love riding in Cycle for Sight because of the people and Tony makes every single person feel included and involved.    I also love the combination of veterans riding for Rotary Club and it ends at a social wine event where you can talk with everyone.

What’s your best cycling memory? My favorite memory is how everyone roots for you during the tandem ride.  Everyone from the other riders to the LightHouse tandem gang, to the volunteers and pedestrians.  Not to mention the gorgeous Napa backdrop.
What’s your favorite quote? 

If you aren’t part of the solution, then you are part of the precipitate.

Partner up with Jade:

If you would like to ride with Jade, contact Tony Fletcher at afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org  or 415-694-7319.

Donate to Jade’s Ride

You can support her ride across Napa by donating here.

Sign Up to Ride

You can sign up to ride at Cycle4Sight.com. We are aware that the website has some accessibility issues, so if you’d like us to sign you up, email afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org.

Ride with Sam Offenberg

Cycle for Sight 2017 is upon us! To support our many wonderful team members in their rides through Napa this year, we’ve created individual team pages where you can donate and share the story of their ride. To view all the 2017 teams, click here.

I’m riding with Will Butler!

Sam pedals by dressed in a flannel. He is accompanied by a dog in his bike's basket.

When was your first Cycle for Sight? My first Cycle for Sight is on April 22nd, 2017 and I am currently at stoke level 11 (on a 10 point scale).

Why do you love riding in Cycle for Sight? I want to support more people having access to two things that I love: cycling and the great outdoors.  I have little tandem experience and thought this would be a great reason to take on a new challenge with fun people to share it with.  I also enjoy music, wine, and food, and I am told that I will find all three at the end of the ride.

What’s your best cycling memory? It was a great day when a childhood friend showed me how to stick baseball cards in my bike spokes, which makes a bike sound like a cartoon motorcycle when the wheels turn.  We terrorized the neighborhood on our “Harleys” for several days following the discovery.

What’s your favorite quote? “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – Hunter S. Thompson 

Donate to Sam’s Ride

You can support his ride across Napa by donating here.

You can sign up to ride at Cycle4Sight.com. We are aware that the website has some accessibility issues, so if you’d like us to sign you up, email afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org.

Ride with Tommaso Boggia

Cycle for Sight 2017 is upon us! To support our many wonderful team members in their rides through Napa this year, we’ve created individual team pages where you can donate and share the story of their ride. To view all the 2017 teams, click here.

I’m riding with Jacob!
A man standing before a long sidewalk smiles with sunglasses perched on his head.

When was your first Cycle for Sight? It’s my first time.

Why do you love riding in Cycle for Sight? Riding my bike in traffic to get to work just doesn’t cut it.  I can’t wait to be riding for a great cause, in the countryside, surrounded by great people, smelling vineyard, and sharing stories with my tandem-buddy.

What’s your best cycling memory? I learned to ride my bike pretty late compared to my friends. When I did it opened up my world and I spent my days exploring my neighborhood and rolling down hills.

What’s your favorite quote?  “Don’t hang up your dancing slippers.” – Wernher von Braun, NASA rocket scientist

Partner up with Tommaso:

If you would like to ride with Tommaso, contact Tony Fletcher at afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7319.

Donate to Tommaso’s Ride

You can support his ride across Napa by donating here.

Sign Up to Ride

You can sign up to ride at Cycle4Sight.com. We are aware that the website has some accessibility issues, so if you’d like us to sign you up, email afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org.

Ride With James Whimpey

Cycle for Sight 2017 is upon us! To support our many wonderful team members in their rides through Napa this year, we’ve created individual team pages where you can donate and share the story of their ride. To view all the 2017 teams, click here.

I’m riding with Marc Sutton!

Two male bikers zoom by in full gear in front of a grassy hill.

When was your first Cycle for Sight? This is my first Cycle for Sight so I can’t answer the first two questions but I can’t wait to take part!

What’s your best cycling memory? Spending a couple of months living in the French Alps and riding my bike every day through some beautiful mountain passes.

What’s your favorite quote? “I was put on this earth to accomplish certain things. I am so far behind now that I will never die.”

Partner up with James:

If you would like to ride with James, contact Tony Fletcher at afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org  or 415-694-7319.

Donate to James’s Ride

You can support his ride across Napa by donating here.

Sign Up to Ride

You can sign up to ride at Cycle4Sight.com. We are aware that the website has some accessibility issues, so if you’d like us to sign you up, email tfletcher@lighthouse-sf.org.

Ride With Anthony Dalli

Cycle for Sight 2017 is upon us! To support our many wonderful team members in their rides through Napa this year, we’ve created individual team pages where you can donate and share the story of their ride. To view all the 2017 teams, click here.

I’m riding with Carson!
Anthony smiling, standing with his bike behind his tandem parter

When was your first Cycle for Sight? April 22, 2015 riding the 15 mile ride.

Why do you love riding in Cycle for Sight? Helping raise money for Camp, meeting new friends, branching out and enjoying life.

What’s your best cycling memory? Riding with friends, sightseeing the beautiful Napa country. Hanging out at the rest stop with Jimmy Cong, the musician. Riding with Nasir Acqbal for his first ever ride of 25 miles.

What’s your favorite quote? “Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing.”

Partner up with Anthony:

If you would like to ride with Anthony, contact Tony Fletcher at afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7319.

Donate to Anthony’s Ride

You can support his ride across Napa by donating here.

Sign Up to Ride

You can sign up to ride at Cycle4Sight.com. We are aware that the website has some accessibility issues, so if you’d like us to sign you up, email afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org.

Ride With Chris Downey

Cycle for Sight 2017 is upon us! To support our many wonderful team members in their rides through Napa this year, we’ve created individual team pages where you can donate and share the story of their ride. To view all the 2017 teams, click here.


Chris, his tandem partner and another companion are standing before a view of the Golden Gate Bridge in their biking gear, with their bikes

When was your first Cycle for Sight?  A business trip conflicted with the first Cycle for Sight that I was to ride in 2011 so I made up my own “LightHouse Cycle Challenge” later in September of that year. I rode with my tag team captains of Mike and Hans for one of the best rides ever – from in front of the old LightHouse at 214 Van Ness around the SF waterfront and across the Golden Gate Bridge for a long haul up to Inverness and then around to the Lighthouse at the Southern Tip of Point Reyes. It was one of those truly magical and rare days when the warmth and sun held off the wind and chill all the way across Point Reyes. It was so perfect that I’m reluctant to ever test fate again with the same ride but will always be thrilled to ride with Team LightHouse in the Cycle for Sight.


Why do you love riding in Cycle for Sight?

I don’t often have the chance to get out on the tandem these days so it’s great to have this excuse and motivation to get back on the bike. The best clairvoyants takes me back to the time when I first lost my sight and worked through the LightHouse to get the training needed to confidently rebuild and restore the life I wanted.  As it was then, that initial sense of vulnerability and uncertain fear quickly gives way to settle into a confident strong rhythm and stride. It’s always fun to hit the road with so many sighted and unsighted cyclists but it’s no longer a challenge to knock out the ride up and around Mount Veeder.  The real challenge is to quickly and efficiently get through the first 40 miles so that you can race the onset of fanny fatigue for the final 10 miles. As the president of the LightHouse Board of Directors, then, the real challenge and motivation is to collect enough donations to motivate me to get through those final 10 miles. Based on the degree of fanny fatigue experienced in last year’s ride, it’s looking like I’ll need to be at a pace of about $200 per mile which would put me at an even $10,000 for the entire ride. This may be a bit painful for the wallets of my friends and supporters but I assure you that it will be a bigger pain for where my wallet goes! It’s your choice, do it for the campers or do it to put a smile on my face that can be sustained all the way through those final miles!  Above all else, I always look forward to riding the Cycle for Sight in support of the lives that are touched, changed and empowered through the programs and activities of the LightHouse and its Enchanted Hills Camp.

What’s your best cycling memory?

My best and most cherished cycling memory was the first ride I had on a tandem. My captain was one of my best friends and cycling partners who while I was still recovering in the hospital, first issued the challenge for us to get out and ride together. 4 months later, there we were, our maiden tandem voyage along the San Francisco Bay with my son Renzo, 11 at the time, on his bike and racing to keep up with us. My wife Rosa awaited anxiously at the end of the ride and greeted us at the finish with tears of joy. I don’t think anything will ever surpass the joy we all felt that day. It was a simple ride that started with some terrifying and wobbly pedal strokes that quickly turned straight and strong. That simple vote of confidence and challenge from a friend, shared with my family, was the moment when the world of possibilities seemed to open up for all of us. I doubt that anything will ever surpass the joy we experienced that day.

What’s your favorite quote? “Keep the rubber side down” – the first rule of cycling. If you don’t, havoc is sure to follow.

Partner up with Chris:

If you would like to ride with Chris, contact Tony Fletcher at afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7319.

Donate to Chris:

You can support his ride across Napa by donating here.

Sign Up to Ride

You can sign up to ride at Cycle4Sight.com. We are aware that the website has some accessibility issues, so if you’d like us to sign you up, email afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org.

Ride With Diana Sharkawy

Cycle for Sight 2017 is upon us! To support our many wonderful team members in their rides through Napa this year, we’ve created individual team pages where you can donate and share the story of their ride. To view all the 2017 teams, click here.

Three friends stand together behind their tandem bike

When was your first Cycle for Sight? My first Cycle for sight was two years ago, April 2014.

Why do you love riding in Cycle for Sight? Biking is fun in general, but I love riding Cycle for Sight because because it supports our local veterans and the Lighthouse in a fun, interactive way.  I love the Lighthouse crew because they let everyone ride at their comfort pace.  Also, the wine after is a nice motivator.

What’s your best cycling memory? My best memory was riding a tandem for the first time with one of my friends who has low vision.  Figuring out how to get our tandem going was a telling experience.

What’s your favorite quote? “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.” -Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Partner up with Diana:

If you would like to ride with Diana contact Tony Fletcher at afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org  or 415-694-7319.

Donate to Diana:

You can support her ride across Napa by donating here.

Sign Up to Ride

You can sign up to ride at Cycle4Sight.com. We are aware that the website has some accessibility issues, so if you’d like us to sign you up, email afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org.

Ride With Mike May

Cycle for Sight 2017 is upon us! To support our many wonderful team members in their rides through Napa this year, we’ve created individual team pages where you can donate and share the story of their ride. To view all the 2017 teams, click here.

I’m riding with Harry!

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When was your first Cycle for Sight? I haven’t ridden in many. The first was probably about 10 years ago.

Why do you love riding in Cycle for Sight? I love the busy group atmosphere of the ride. It is very entertaining and very casual.

What’s your best cycling memory? I remember twice missing the 25 mile turn-off and riding an extra 10 miles.

What’s your favorite quote? “Starve the ego, feed the soul.”

Partner up with Mike:

If you would like to ride with Mike, contact Tony Fletcher at afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org  or 415-694-7319.

Donate to Mike:

You can support his ride across Napa by donating here.

Sign Up to Ride

You can sign up to ride at Cycle4Sight.com. We are aware that the website has some accessibility issues, so if you’d like us to sign you up, email afletcher@lighthouse-sf.org.