Henry Osti, lost both his mom and dad to cancer, his parents were his best friends and were the two most special people in his life;  BOTH whom loved him unconditionally. Losing them was the biggest challenge he had ever faced.  

One day while attending a documentary about Long Distance cycling he decided to commit to do something bold, to make a difference in the world and challenge himself more than ever before.  Henry founded RIDE YOUR REAMS EVERYDAY (RYDE - 501C3) & partnered with Delete Blood Cancer (https://www.dkms.org) & Love Hope Strength (https://lovehopestrength.org) to raise the awareness and engage people to SIGN UP for the bone marrow registry donor list. When someone has blood cancer or leukemia a bone marrow transplant can mean the difference between life and death.

On June 24th (Henry’s Birthday), 2011, Henry set off on a great adventure cycling from San Francisco to Yorktown Virginia, 4000 miles ride & logged enough cumulative climbing mountain passes to enter the Troposphere. RYDE was picked up by numerous news channels & enrolled over 500 people to “JOIN The List to save a LIFE” & DBC

While driving his 2000 Land cruiser (favorite car), which was the support vehicle on the cross country ride, from Miami back to its storage location in Salt Lake City, Henry stopped in Jacksonville to have lunch with a client and friend Chris Doerr, who was the CFO of Florida Blue. Henry shared his story and Chris was both amazed and intrigued. During that lunch the idea for RYDE FL was born. RYDE Florida was a collaboration between RYDE and Florida Blue to spread the word of the importance of the bone marrow registry.  Over 2 weeks, Henry rode 1,400 miles bicycle around the state of Florida stopping at all retail stores enrolling another 600 people the registry.