Freddie Hoffman

Hoffman keeps mileage logs. He has ridden across the United States and has visited every one of the contiguous 48 states and been honored by more than 30 state governors.^{[citation needed]} Every Spring Hoffman calls on his friends and supporters, now numbering in the hundreds, to get pledges to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation for his upcoming ride that summer.^{[citation needed]} As of April 24, 2023 Hoffman, has logged 1,932,000 miles. He is still adding to his milage daily.

Hoffman's mother died of leukemia in 1986.^{[citation needed]} In addition to naming his bicycles "Ruth E." after her, he has focused on raising money in her memory to support leukemia research.^{[citation needed]}

He is a part-time janitor at a church in New Jersey.^[4][5][1][3]

• Copy of article from Bicycling
• posterous.com profiled Freddie Hoffman in issue 42, published in March 2010 by Gary J. Boulanger.