A Trip of a Lifetime

Welcome to a Journey across America – You have signed up to see and hear a daily update of the 2014 Cannonball Motorcycle endurance run, from the perspective of team Carson Classic Motors. Our team of 8 riders and 8 crew members will leave Daytona Beach FL on September 5^th, 2014 (16 days) and travel 17 days to reach Tacoma, WA on September 21, 2014. Nearly 100 people have signed in to receive these updates. Leave me begin by thanking each one of you personally, for you help, time, resources, prayers, and encouragement. I am so honored to have the opportunity to participate in this epic event!

Let me start with some introductions to the actual Team riders and Crew: Team Carson Classic Motors, from Livingston, Texas, know as CCM, will host 8 riders in the event.

 Carson Classic Motors is pleased to announce their participation in the “Hardest Motorcycle Race in the World,” the Motorcycle Cannonball Endurance Run. During the 17 day, 4,200 mile race from Florida to Washington, eight riders will represent the Carson Classic Motors team against a field of close to 100 other competitors from 11 countries on pre-1937 motorcycles. Team CCM will field eight Harley Davidson motorcycles, ranging from 1919 to 1936 and they are:

Riders

#3 Buck Carson 1936 R                        Texas

#6 Steve Simpson 1928 JD                     Kansas/Florida

#25 Scott Byrd 1931 V                          Arkansas

#54 David Lloyd 1919 J                         Mississippi

#73 Greg McFarland 1926 J                  Texas

#77 Brent Mayfield 1934 VJ                  Ohio

#90 Mike Carson 1924 J                        Texas   J or JE

#99 Jon Neuman 1928 JD                      Texas

Support Team

Steve Norton Crew Chief                       England

Jesse Law, JD/VL Mechanic                  Texas

David King  Driver                                 Illinois

Shelby Withrow, Driver/Machinist          Texas

Bob Huffman                                         Ohio

Theresa Prosser                                     Texas

Paul Esler                                              Texas

Ivan Brown                                            England

There will be several ways to follow the 2014 Cannonball:

This Update e-mail will be written from the perspective eyes looking at team CCM – It will be written daily about what is actually happening within the Day to Day operations of what we are facing.

Bill Wood – Editor or the AMCA – (Antique Motorcycle Club of America) will be narrating his story from inside the Cannonball event – He will be riding in the support staff and see a bigger picture concerning the 2014 Cannonball Run – Keep his website on your radar, because you will want to hear want he is seeing each day.

www.antiquemotorcycle.org

There will be a link on the right side of the website, under the News section – watch for that!!

Felica Morgan - Media Relations – will be writing daily on the official Cannonball website – She also is riding with-in the actual event and will update on the website.

www.cannonballmotorcycle.com

She will have some sort of link to a daily story

Greg McFarland – Rider #73 – Webmaster for the Cheokee AMCA chapter – He will have updates sent to the club website blog.

http://www.cherokeeamca.org/blog.html

Greg plans to upload pictures to the blog – Keep up with this link also

Now I have given you the tools to follow this event from several different angles – Sit in the comfort of your computer chair and follow us across America!!!

Enjoy

David Lloyd – rider #54

Team CCM – 2014 Cannonball Motorcycle Run

August 21, 2014