{"id":22589,"date":"2026-03-02T02:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/22589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T02:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:32:24","slug":"over-1000-cyclists-ride-in-bike-ms-historic-new-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/22589\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1,000 cyclists ride in Bike MS: Historic New Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Bern, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; New Bern hosted their annual historic Bike MS ride on Saturday and Sunday, with almost 1,200 cyclists in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">MS, or multiple sclerosis, is a disease where the immune system attacks protective nerves. The disease affects nearly one million people in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalmssociety.org\/?utm_source=sc&amp;utm_medium=semg&amp;utm_campaign=aabfy25_pmax&amp;referrer=sc-aabfy25_pmax-semg&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22174369410&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0cKojuvHjwMVim5HAR0UKRUkEAAYASAAEgJlmvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nationalmssociety.org\/?utm_source=sc&amp;utm_medium=semg&amp;utm_campaign=aabfy25_pmax&amp;referrer=sc-aabfy25_pmax-semg&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22174369410&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0cKojuvHjwMVim5HAR0UKRUkEAAYASAAEgJlmvD_BwE\"> U.S., according to the National MS Society.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bike MS rides are held to fundraise and help find a cure through research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There were several mileage options available throughout the two days, as well as a new gravel ride this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bike MS New Bern Director Casey Svanda told WITN she\u2019s always excited to bring more awareness and understanding to MS through the ride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s amazing this morning we had our I Ride With MS cyclist lead out the ride, start the ride for us,\u201d Svanda told WITN. \u201cSo they were all riding wearing their I Ride With MS jerseys. It\u2019s just one of those moments that give you goosebumps, so it was very cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">So far, they have raised $1.4 million of their $1.6 million goal, and their donation period will remain open for sixty days after Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Bern, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; New Bern hosted their annual historic Bike MS ride on Saturday and Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,5294,14592,3555,14586,14588,14589,14590,967,14593,5295,14587,12783,14591],"class_list":["post-22589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-bike","tag-disease","tag-fund","tag-historical","tag-m","tag-ms","tag-multiple","tag-new","tag-raise","tag-ride","tag-rider","tag-s","tag-sclerosis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}