Are we ready for some sites?

Daytona Beach FL

Daytona Speedway

Cape Girardeau - Bill Emerson bridge

Kanas flatlands

Colorado

Love lands Pass

Love lands Pass

Tacoma Washington - Mt Rainier

OK………. We are getting CLOSE – Bill Wood has began to layout his updates on the AMCA Website www.antiquemotorcycle.org

Be sure and go there and see the NEW map display with all of our stops listed – His site will be a daily update you will want to see everyday!!

He is riding on a support vehicle and will be right in the middle of everything Cannonball…..

Felica Morgan will be updating the official  www.motorcyclecannonball.com website –

She plans to post the daily mileage scores so you will be able to track each rider by the miles he or she completed each day.

Felica also is deeply involved with the interworking of the Cannonball event.

The route and stops are also listed there

If you are on Facebook, there is a Facebook Cannonball Motorcycle page – Many riders have been updating their status there.

Daytona will be cooking next week – Keep following……..

Final days until we leave for Daytona

We are in our final days before leaving for Daytona Beach Florida. Team CCM has riders and crew from Texas, Arkansas, Ohio, Florida, Mississippi, Illinois, and the UK. Everyone is beginning to make their way toward the starting line. Spoke with Jon Neuman (rider #99) yesterday and he said his bike is partial dis-assembled?? Not sure how much!! They will begin toward Florida with Greg McFarland (rider #73) and crew members Jesse Law and Shelby Withrow. Then, there is Buck Carson (rider #3) who is teasing us right down to the last minute! His transmission was out on the bench last last night! They leave for Daytona tomorrow. Our crew chief, Steve Norton and Ian Brown leave the UK in a few days and fly into Orlando, where Mike and Buck Carson will pick them up. Brent Mayfield, (rider #77) is tweaking out final details. he and Bob Huffman will leave Ohio and arrive in Daytona on Wednesday. My great friends, Mark Cantrell and Willard Gargis are going to take David Lloyd, (rider #54) to Daytona. We will leave on Tuesday, September 2, 2014. Scott Byrd (rider #25) will fly to Daytona Wednesday with his wife, Leslie. Steve Simpson, (rider #6) will already be in Florida waiting for us to all arrive. Mike Carson, (rider #90) and Theresa Prosser will also arrive in Daytona on Tuesday, September 2, 2014.

When we all 16 come together in Daytona, the first order of business, Team captain, Mike "GLT" Carson has called a group team meeting. We have rented a conference room for Wednesday night.

Thursday is registration, Tech inspection for all motorcycles, and even a 30 mile optional test map ride. They will offer a 30 mile route ride so the Cannonball rider can practice using the roll route sheet before using it for the next 16 days.

Also on Thursday, we get to ride around the Daytona track on our Cannonball motorcycle and have a photo taken. Our 8 rider CCM team will hear more about our plans for this event at the meeting Wednesday night.

BIG Day - Friday morning will include a panoramic photo of the entire 100+ field of motorcycles on the sands of Daytona Beach - (Remember team, Lonnie instructed us to have a kickstand plate for our bikes on the beach) Late start time on the opening day - 10am departure to our 1st city stop - Less that 150 miles to Lake City Florida.

Plan to follow along as we invite you inside (just like a fly on the wall) to Team CCM - 8 riders and 8 crew, as we travel 4100 miles on the Worlds Greatest Antique Motorcycle event of 2014

David

Sent from my iPad

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