GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Brett Favre is coming back to Wisconsin. And he’s bringing his bike with him.

The legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback-turned-amateur triathlete, who returned to the state last summer to be inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame and last Thanksgiving to see his retired No. 4 unveiled on the Lambeau Field façade, is taking part in the annual Trek 100 Ride for Hope, which benefits Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer.

The June 11 event will mark the 27th running of the race, which Trek Bicycle Corp. hosts and has raised more than $13.1 million to support the MACC Fund, a Wisconsin-based charity dedicated to funding pediatric cancer and related blood disorder research. Last year’s event drew more than 2,000 participants to Waterloo, Wisconsin -- site of Trek’s headquarters -- and raised $900,000.

The 46-year-old Favre, who is set to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Aug. 6, agreed to take part in this year’s event after ordering a bike from Trek to compete in his first triathlon last December.

Favre did not reply to a text message Thursday, but in an interview on ESPN Milwaukee last summer, he talked about how he’d gotten into biking because of his wife Deanna, who’d been competing in triathlons for several years.

Favre said shortly after retiring, he’d fallen so far out of shape that he struggled to run a 5K charity race. Now, he’s competing with Deanna -- she beat him in the Key West Triathlon, Favre’s triathlon debut -- and rides 120 miles a week on his bike.

“I try to stay in shape,” Favre, who looked quite fit in his return to Lambeau Field, said in that interview. “Every morning Deanna and I will go bike, or we’ll run. Or we go with friends of ours. There’s a big group of us that kind of keep each other in check.”

In fact, the day before the Packers honored him on Thanksgiving night in Green Bay, Favre roadtripped to Trek’s headquarters to be fitted for his new ride: a Trek Madone.

Favre, who was listed at 6-foot-2 and 225 pounds during his playing days, didn’t need a fully customized bike -- although it does have “The Gunslinger” inscribed on it, along with numbers commemorating a variety of his accomplishments -- but his broad shoulders and height required some tweaks to the design.

Eric Bjorling, Trek’s brand manager, said in a phone interview Thursday evening that the company has made custom bikes for a variety of former athletes, including ex-NFL running back and major league baseball player Bo Jackson, with whom Favre rode last month in Jackson’s annual “Bo Bikes ‘Bama” charity ride in Alabama.

“Brett almost maxes out our size of any bike we make. Any taller, and we’d have had to do more of a custom build,” Bjorling said. “He’s very broad-shouldered, but he’s kept his range of motion pretty well, so there weren’t many customized things. I’d say his bike is pretty standard with some slight modifications.”

There was nothing standard about Favre’s visit to Trek, however; Bjorling, who grew up a Packers fan in nearby Madison and was 10 when Favre came to Green Bay in 1992, said no guest has had quite the effect Favre did during his time at the facility.

“We have a number of athletes and celebrities and CEOs and dignitaries come through pretty regularly,” Bjorling said. “But the Messiah himself could come from the heavens, and people would only be half as excited as they were about Brett being here. It was so cool to see how excited people were.”

Bjorling said Trek CEO John Burke asked Favre during the visit if he’d consider taking part in the Trek 100, and Favre confirmed his plans last week.

Favre’s involvement is a coup for the MACC Fund, which now has a connection to each of the Packers’ two great modern-day quarterbacks. Favre’s successor, Aaron Rodgers, has been heavily involved with the charity since 2010, having hosted an annual fundraiser in Milwaukee and has helped raise more than $2 million, including the $50,000 he earned with his victory on “Celebrity Jeopardy!” last year.