Ray Porter Memorial Silent Auction

Big Pig Racing presents our first annual silent auction, to coincide with our 2nd annual Race Against Cancer! 100% of proceeds from this auction will go to support cancer victims, their families, and research!

This auction will end the day our benefit bike race begins on February 8, 2014!

About the race:

This will be a 6-hour endurance mountain bike race on the beautiful East Texas trails inside Tyler State Park. We are also happy to announce that due to the strong impact of cancer in our community and the overwhelming success of last years event, we have founded the Big Pig Cancer Foundation to make all of this years donations tax deductible and help provide an avenue for supporting local families in their time of need.

In light of our communities recent loss, this year we have officially renamed the event in honor of local endurance, mountain bike legend Ray Porter who passed away on December 27th after being diagnosed with Cholangiocarcinoma on November 13, 2013. Ray and his wife Gina have been active supporters of the Dallas / Ft. Worth mountain bike community for many years and now it is our time to give back and support "his girl".

Over the past several years, multiple members of the Big Pig Racing team have had their lives changed in their fight against cancer. Brain cancer, bone cancer, breast cancer, and leukemia to name a few. As a result the Big Pig Racing family decided to put our off the bike skills to good use and host a mountain bike race to raise money for cancer research. In January 2013 we held the inaugural “Kick Cancer’s A**’s” 6-hour MTB Race at Tyler State Park. As a result over $7000 was sent to three different cancer research charities. Because of the outpouring of support and funds, we knew that the 2014 and beyond events would continue to grow and need a more financially sophisticated approach for sponsors, supporting groups, and donations. To that end, we have formed the Big Pig Cancer Foundation as a Texas non-profit corporation with 501c3 status. This provides more transparency in how and where the funds are being used, and more flexibility in the cancer research programs we support.