Sunday offered perfect weather for the Dick Melloni Youth Foundation's annual Foundation Fifty-Five bike ride.

Participants took a 55-mile or 20-mile ride from Buzzards Bay Park in Bourne in support of the foundation.

A Family-Fun youth ride down the Cape Cod Canal was also held, which, in addition to helping the Melloni foundation, gave area schools the opportunity to raise funds for various causes. John W. Decas Elementary School staffers used the event to raise funds for the second phase of the school's playground build.

Based in Wareham, the Dick Melloni Youth Foundation focuses on children's education, health, and welfare. It is well-known for "Lids-4-Kids," which provides free bicycle helmets for families, and for its annual holiday toy drive.

The foundation is named for Richard H. Melloni, a former Wareham fire chief who died suddenly in 1993.