About me

I was born in the late 60’s and raised in the north eastern suburbs of New York City. In the mid 70’s I had a chance to ride a Honda XR75. That was a turning point in my life. Prior to that I was all about my Schwinn Stingray bicycle because the freedom it gave me. Discovering a contraption that could propel me across the surface of the earth just like my bicycle, but with a power and ease that seemed magical, I was transfixed, utterly spellbound. That brief experience burned itself into my read only memory. I knew right then and there that motorcycles would be a major part of my life.

In college I had a series of motorcycles that I dutifully learned how to maintain. But it was after I read Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, then I got a job as a mechanic for a Honda dealer, that I really began my education in the motorcycle phenomenon. I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Southern Connecticut State University, major in history, minor in philosophy. Towards the end of my time at collage I started racing.

I raced motorcycles for a little over 20 years, mainly club level road racing, but a good portion of my racing was in national level AMA & WERA endurance road racing. I co-operated Team Charm Racing as racer, mechanic, builder and owner. We won many Mid-Atlantic regional championships and finished runner up in the WERA National Endurance Series in Lightweight Superbike in 2002 and third in 2007. Most recently I raced in 2015, but most of my racing was 2009 and before.

While I was good at racing, I still needed a job to pay the bills. So after college I started working in the P&C Insurance industry as a claims adjuster, damage appraiser, accident scene reconstructionist and expert witness.

In 1991, as part of my desire to give back to club level racing, I began to volunteer for Mid-Atlantic Road Racing Club (MARRC). That lead in 1993 to me becoming a lead instructor’s for the MARRC Road Racing School (RRS) a role that I continue to this day. I volunteer every chance I can for MARRC, dedicated to the advancement of motorcycle road racing.

In 2003 I chucked the stable, lucrative, insurance career of 12 years and took a 50% pay cut for a teaching position with Anne Arundel County’s Center of Applied Technology North (CATN) teaching motorcycle repair to high school students. CATN’s Motorcycle Program was the only motorcycle repair program in Maryland’s public school system and I was the sole person responsible for developing all the curriculum and instruction with the help of the local area motorcycle shops. We got a lot of kids started out the right way, following their passion, with jobs in the motorcycle industry.

While teaching full time I graduated with a Master of Science from McDaniel University in Instruction and Curriculum. I also earned, and currently hold, a Maryland State Department of Education Advance Professional Certificate in Motorcycle Repair Technology. On top of this I ran successful racing team while at the same time and developed & operated Dual Purpose Motorcycle Excursions (DPME).

Somewhat not surprisingly, I am divorced, with no children.

In spring of 2021 I stopped teaching in the public school system. I am now on a fixed income, and I have plenty of time since I do not have a daily job to attend. What I want to do now is travel to remote, desolate, beautiful places and ride motorcycles thru challenging terrain with my friends while I am still physically capable of it. The problem is doing this is too expensive for me. For example, if I want to ride the San Juan in Colorado it costs about $2,400.00 just in fuel to drive there. I can’t afford that by myself. But if 10 of my friends load their bikes in my trailer and go on the trip I only need to pay 1/10 of that cost. That’s something I can afford, and is what I am spending my effort focusing on now.