More than 600 bikers from the Lehigh Valley and beyond enjoyed a ride to the St. Luke’s Fountain Hill campus for the eighth annual Tucker’s Toy Run on a breezy, yet sunny Nov. 3 day.

Delivering well in excess of over 1,000 toys, which are collected throughout the year, the event is organized by Lehigh Valley Community Benefit, and it remembers Tucker Stuart, who died in a motorcycle accident in 2011.

St. Luke’s patient care manager Pat Gubich said the donated toys are distributed to the 10 St. Luke’s campuses, where they are given to children who visit clinics, emergency rooms or spend time in the pediatric wards.

“I can’t tell you the number of smiles you put on patients’ faces,” Gubich said to event organizer Rick Nauman, of Northampton.

“This is so close to our hearts,” Nauman said.

Tucker’s Toy Run begins at Tri-Boro Sportsmen Club, Northampton, and continues on its way to Bethlehem with public safety escorts in each community. Hospital employees and volunteers serve refreshments to the bikers upon their arrival as they line up to place donated toys into hospital cribs and buggies.