Meet The New Rider # 1308 Vickie Harbison

 

Vicki Harbison #1308 -I am excited to participate in the 2026 Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge. I am an adventurous person and have been riding motorcycles on and off for over 50 years. I am driven and have a strong commitment to completing a challenge and over the years have done so in several passions I have had in my life. I am also excited because my husband and I are doing this challenge together. What an adventure we will have to share and talk about for years to come. 

 

I believe in the spirit and what the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge was organized for: charity and challenging a person’s skills, physical/mental capabilities and endurance. I look forward to the opportunities it offers such as the sportsmanship, the ability to travel the different communities, meet people from all walks of life and the challenge from within myself. 

 

I have chosen the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Jimmy Fund in the name of my nephew, John Leary. At 31 years young, he succumbed to GIST (Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor). John was young and adventurous. He loved life and was all about family. He decided to begin Team John with the Institute/Jimmy Fund in 2004, after he was diagnosed with this rare stomach cancer, GIST.

 John only had 15 short months to experience being a father to his son, Christopher. As the family shares the stories of who his dad was, and how much he impacted each and every one of their lives, Christopher will be able to carry his father in his heart for the rest of his life. John definitely lives in my heart and I would like to Honor him and my family by raising money in his name to continue to fight cancer in hopes that someday there will be a cure.