Ride Home Foundation puts serious street riders on the racetrack with professional coaching and proper protective gear. The track is the one place you can safely find the limits the street never lets you reach. Come back sharper.
The stakes, by the numbers
Per mile traveled, motorcyclists are far less protected than anyone in a car. Skill is the margin you build back.
Motorcyclist deaths on Texas roads in a single year, with 2,468 more seriously injured.
A helmet is roughly 37% effective at preventing a fatal injury, and 67% effective against brain injury. Gear is the half you can’t out-ride.
Sources: NHTSA (2024) & Texas DOT (2025).
You can do everything right and still go down. The street hides gravel in the apex, puts a distracted driver in the left-turn lane, and offers no runoff when it matters. The limit of your skill on the street is set by everyone else on it.
The racetrack changes the math. It’s the one place a rider can find the edge of their ability where a mistake costs lap time, not everything, with corner workers, clean pavement, and no oncoming traffic. Riders come back sharper, calmer, and far harder to catch off guard. That’s the whole idea.
Professional instruction on a closed course: trail braking, vision, body position, throttle control, emergency stops. The reflexes that save your life on the street, built in the one place there’s room to fail safely.
A Snell-rated helmet and proper protective gear for the track. Because some crashes were never yours to prevent, and when it goes wrong, what you’re wearing decides how you walk away.
No paperwork maze. No catch. Apply, get geared, and ride.
Tell us your story.
Riders apply in minutes, no essays, no gatekeeping. We review need, commitment, and fit. Veterans are prioritized for every scholarship we award.
A licensed school, and gear that fits.
We pair you with a licensed riding school or track-day program near you and outfit you with a Snell-rated helmet and protective gear for the track.
Learn where mistakes cost seconds, not everything.
Spend a full day with professional coaches on a closed course. Then carry those skills home, to every ride, every commute, every road after.
We show our math. Here’s the real cost of getting one rider home safe, no overhead theater, just gear and instruction.
A full day at a regional Texas track, classroom plus on-track instruction with professional coaches.
A Snell-rated helmet, professionally sized and fitted to the rider.
An abrasion-resistant jacket, gloves, and boots, fitted and ready for a full day on track.
$300 can put one rider on track for a full day. $25 helps fit them with a proper helmet. Every dollar goes to gear or instruction.
Ride Home Foundation was founded by a disabled Air Force veteran who has lost too many, some overseas, some on the road back home. The road home from service should be exactly that: a road home. We treat veteran riders as a priority for every scholarship, because the people who volunteered to protect others deserve someone looking out for them.
“A guardian, not a gang.”
Every scholarship covers a first track day and the gear to ride it. Veterans first. Start in minutes, no essays, no gatekeeping.
You already ride. This is the next level, professional coaching on a closed course to sharpen what the street can’t teach safely. Not a fix for bad riders; a step up for serious ones.
Know a rider who belongs on a track, not pushing their luck on the street? Nominate them. Be the person who’d rather fund a track day than get the call.
Cost should never be the reason a rider doesn’t come home. If it’s the barrier, apply.
We’re building relationships with licensed riding schools, regional Texas tracks, and gear manufacturers. We’ll name our partners here the moment agreements are signed, we’d rather under-promise and over-deliver. If you run a school, a track, or a gear brand and this is your mission too, we want to talk.
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Run a school, a track, or a gear brand? We name partners here the day agreements are signed.
Choose an amount, give once or monthly, or donate gear directly. Payments are being wired up now, your intent is recorded and we’ll follow up.
$270 puts one rider on track for a full day, classroom plus on-track coaching. Every dollar goes to gear or instruction.
Have a new Snell-rated helmet, or new and like-new protective gear? Send it to a rider.
Donate gearRider stories
As our first scholarship riders finish their track days, their stories will live here, in their own words, with their own photos. Real names, real roads, real saves.
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Not yet, and we won’t pretend otherwise. We have organized as a nonprofit and our 501(c)(3) status is in formation. Until the IRS issues our determination letter, we cannot promise that donations are tax-deductible. The IRS commonly makes its determination retroactive to the date of formation, so keep your receipt and consult your tax advisor. We’ll update this page the day it becomes official.
Basic courses teach the fundamentals, and they matter. But the track is the only place a rider can safely explore the real limits of braking, cornering, and traction: at speed, with clean pavement, runoff, and corner workers, where a mistake costs lap time, not everything. Those discovered limits are exactly what keeps riders safe on the street.
Yes. New, unused Snell-rated helmets and new or like-new protective gear (jackets, gloves, boots, back protectors) can go straight to a rider. Email us and we’ll arrange it. We only pass along gear that genuinely protects, nothing expired or compromised.
Street riders who want to level up and will show up and do the work. We’re starting regionally in Texas and growing from there. Veterans are a priority for every scholarship, but you do not have to be a veteran to apply. Selection weighs need, commitment, and fit, not how fast you are.
Yes, please do. You can nominate a rider you care about (a friend, partner, son or daughter) and we’ll reach out to them directly. Many of our applications come from the people who’d rather fund a track day than get the call. You’re welcome to give toward their day, too.
A short application, a quick conversation, and a commitment to attend. We prioritize riders for whom cost is the barrier and who will carry the training forward, and we prioritize veterans. As funding grows, so does the number of riders we can send.
Helmets are always new and Snell-rated. A helmet’s protection degrades with age and impact, so we never hand down a used one. Other protective gear is new or carefully vetted like-new.
