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| | | |  | Team MS gets a little press | | | Team MS was lucky enough to have Motorcyclist do a feature on our last Salt Flats run. It was great expousre for Team MS and I am very grateful. |
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 | | Salt Flats 2007 World Finals | | Well here we go again. Bill Whisenant and I had been talking about heading out the Salt Flats for over a year now and with Team MS unable to make the Salt Flats during Speed Week as our hotel burned down, (lodging is so over-rated). We enlisted the help of Fred and Nick at his shop (Motorcycle Performance in Madison, WI). So we had to look to the future for our adventure and make plans for World Finals in October. In hindsight this was undoubtedly the best thing we could have done. The crowds are minimal and the weather; while a little less reliable is very comfortable.
Instead of waiting in lines of 500 entries we had around 150 entries; it makes for a much quicker line! I like this way and I am not sure I would ever come back in August.
Wednesday morning arrived and it is time to run. Tech is over and the bikes are ready- I hope I am! I woke at 2:30am thinking about what needs to be done yet to make the day go as smoothly as it can.
When going through tech yesterday the official told me that there were two other bikes there running in my class and that there a couple of items that could be protested on my bike if I happen to set a record. After you spend a year getting ready, while I appreciate the heads up; it is a little unnerving to hear this warning. I soon would be justified in this uneasy feeling. |
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 | | Good Medicine | | The following article appears in Cycle Worlds, Sport Bike 2007. Blake Conner is the author.
For most, dignosis of a debilitating disease is a signal that it's time to take stock and get things in order, a serious reality check. |
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 | | Friday the 13th. | | Friday the 13th. What a way to end this 2006 season. It has been a little like a song from
the 60s “What a long strange road it’s been” It is only fitting that we would end up the year on a Friday the 13th. The adventure began a couple of weeks earlier when Mark Jung asked if I would be interested in going to the GNF. Now Mark knows that the race bank was good and exhausted so I politely declined and Mark said that Team MS would be riding a Vesrah bike and that he had something in mind for riders. If I had only knew then. |
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 | | Bonneville 2006 | | | Yes for one more time I decided to take the old Triumph out of storage and run it about. This time I brought the entire family along under the thinly disguised title of “FAMILY VACATION” and just for the record a three and nine year old as well as a wife, standing around in the desert in 90+ degree temperatures is not a family vacation. I know, my wife told me. |
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 | | Team MS rolls to third in Atlanta | | | I knew we were in for a great race when we had no one to practice on the practice day. Morgan’s plane was late arriving into Atlanta and Andy had to spend a little time on his own bike to get ready for the sprint races. The one thing that this weekend proved was fast people are fast people on any bike. |
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 | | WET,WET,WET at the WERA round at Autobahn | | The second stop on this year’s racing calendar for Team MS was in Joliet Illinois at the Autobahn Country Club. We were fortunate enough to get to spend a little time testing on the track the Wednesday before we were to race thanks to the folks at Pirelli and Vesrah. Unfortunately we had been living in rain in the Midwest for a few days now and the trend is set for a few more as well. Wednesday was a great day of dry weather. Fred and I drove down late on Friday and we arrived in cold rain and snowy weather. Our trailer is not the most comfortable (No Heat)!
We woke up early on Saturday morning (after sleeping on boards, neither one of us is a young man anymore) to more rain. This allowed Fred and I to spend the morning prepping the bikes and working to keep our bodies moving. |
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 | | TeamMS WERA Gratton | | | Team MS made an impression this last weekend at the WERA National Endurance round at Gratton MI. Unfortunately it was not nessacarly one we wanted to make. What started out as a positional great weekend with TeamMS having the opportunity to place well after checking our times we were left a little short of goals by something that no matter how well you prepare you can not predict. |
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 | | 2004 Year End Report | | | TeamMS completed the 2004 year with several of the goals they had laid out accomplished. The year has drawn to a close, and the enthusiasm for 2005 is at an all time high. I have high lighted several of TeamMS accomplishments below and listed several of targets for the 2005 season. |
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 | | TeamMS at the Springfield Mile | | | TeamMS had a new racer in its campaign against Multiple Sclerosis. Brian Kromroy AMA professional #84 raced the Springfield Mile as a member of TeamMS. Brian races in the 883 Sportster class. If you can make it out to watch a Progressive Insurance AMA flay track event, make sure and let Brian know that you are rooting him on. |
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 | | Mid-Ohio Vintage Motorcyle Days | | | This marked the first trip for TeamMS to Mid Ohio for the AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days. By all accounts the weekend was a major success for TeamMS. I just need to keep reminding myself that the mission of TeamMS is to increase awareness of this illness. |
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 | | Fathers Day Racing and the entire family comes along | | | TeamMS hit the road late on Thursday afternoon to drive to Gratton Raceway in Michigan. The Track is located just outside Grand Rapids and if there were a way to avoid the entire Chicago and Gary area, I would love to hear about it. One of the best days I have spent in my truck is the day it took to get through Chicago. |
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 | | Team MS crosses the pond | | | Team MS paid a visit to the ACE Café and the Coventry Museum to get in touch with the rocker and sporting past and increase awareness about MS |
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 | | Team MS Racing at Gratton | | | Team MS hit the road late on Friday afternoon to drive to Gratton Raceway in Michigan . |
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 | | Team MS Goes to Florida | | | Team MS set off early on a Sunday morning for Jennings Florida to contest the first round of the AHRMA national Classic Motorcycle racing series. |
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Lead Recap - MS Walk In Madison |  The Madison MS walk was met with less than stunning weather but even that failed to dampen the spirts of the hundreds of walkers who came out to help in the fight against MS. Pictured is Govenor Doyle of Wisconsin who became a member of Team MS Racing. The event was a success because people walked. Every person who walked did so for thier mom's, dad's, brothers, sisters, best friends and co-workers They walk for those that can not. The Wisconsin population has a rate of 1 in 500. They walk so that some day that rate will be ZERO. |
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