The Cannonball just keeps getting better – not only will George be riding across the country this year, his sons Grant and Shawn (Odie) will be joining for the experience. Grant will be riding his 1926 JD and Shawn will be the driver for the trailer race. The whole family has been bitten by the antique motorcycle bug – which makes everything a lot more fun! George is trying to retire from his oilfield day job so he can focus his time at Pocket Valve Performance Cycle with Grant and Shawn (Odie) in Great Bend, Kansas. George and his wife Kim live in St John, KS – they enjoy traveling to pick up new/old motorcycles and parts!

Born and raised in Amsterdam in 1960. Owned my first motorcycle business in 1983. Since then I stayed involved in many motorcycle businesses. I raced in motor cross up till 1981, then since 1981 I raced the Paris Dakar, Morocco Rally and the Tunisia Rally and many more. After that I raced The Dakar and Trans Amazon Rallys in a car. I still road race and motocross and car race old classic cars for fun. I hope to see and meet a lot of motorcycle nuts like me in the Chase

Hi, i´am Gerhard Wellmann from Halle/Westfalia, a small town in Western-Germany. My age is 61 and this will be my first Cannonball-Run. Getting support from my team: Wife Karin, our son Marco and friend Robby. Robby helped a lot getting ready my 1913 Indian Big-Twin for this great event. Looking forward to meet you all in Virginia Beach.

Profile of Brian Pease, 1917 Henderson #92 I started riding in 1960 while attending college in Vermont on a 2 HP Montgomery Ward Scooter. I progressed up to an old BSA Super Rocket before reverting back to 250cc bikes. Armed with an EE degree, and a job in Connecticut, I dabbled in small sports cars for a few years before returning to motorcycles. A Honda CX500 gave way to a GL1100 Gold Wing followed by a Valkyrie, which was nice but sooo heavy! After retiring back to Vermont, I acquired my first antique bike, a beautifully restored 1928 101 Scout that I still own. The Valkyrie gave way to an original paint 1975 GL1000 Gold Wing, starting my passion for 4-cylinder antique machines. Along the way I imported a 1952 inline 4-cylinder Nimbus from Denmark. After co-riding a 1923 Neracar, the Little Bugger, for Team Arcane in the 1914 Cannonball owned by Bob Addis, Mark Hill persuaded me to have him start building a 1916 Henderson single-speed, which became the Lake Monster, which I entered in the 2016 Cannonball, this time with Bob as co-rider. We were forced out of the run near the Mississippi following Bob’s unfortunate “wardrobe malfunction” when his chaps got caught in the alternator belt, snapping the front end off the crankshaft. Team Arcane returned for the 2018 Cannonball, this time with a proper belt guard on the Lake Monster. The popular but very slow Little Bugger also returned, this time ridden by the ace motorcycle mechanic Ben Pierce, with Bob as vehicle driver and support. I rode the Lake Monster to sixth place overall out of 107 who started. I also did all of my own maintenance and wrenching except for a precautionary tire change. Riding a 102 year old motorcycle over Logan Pass on the Going to the Sun Highway on a fine day was awesome! Meanwhile, Ben wrung as many miles out of the Little Bugger as possible each day. One day he caught a wheel on the edge of the pavement and crashed, seriously bending the frame. The next morning, Ben & Bob found a body shop that was able to straighten it in 3 hours, at no charge. Ben was back on the road the next day. Team Arcane returned for the 2020 Cannonball. I rode a 1917 Henderson 3-speed called the Eclipse while Ben rode a souped-up British version of the Neracar, a 1926 Model C, with a 350cc Blackburne 4-stroke engine and 3-speed transmission straight from Brooklands called the British Bugger, with Bob once again as driver and support. I managed perfect miles despite low power and overheating problems due to low compression cylinders used for low octane fuel during WW1. Ben finished every pay perfectly except for one. The entire team will return in 2023 to try once again. I will have high compression pistons and Ben will have refined the British Bugger to make it easier to ride.
I enjoying the challenge of competing in the Motorcycle Cannonball especially riding in Class 1 with the nearly impossible task of nursing a single cylinder, no gearbox 3HP modified bicycle across the country. It will take take some innovative on the spot MacGyvery to finish. A little about me I am a retired Mechanical Engineer/fabricator/ tinkerer, I worked for NASA for a few years. I build with my own hands and race almost anything that has wheels all out of my home race shop. Bicycles, motorcycles Motocross bikes, 125cc shifter karts, road race cars, off road cars, antique trucks, antique motorcycles, dabbled in NASCAR a few years, own and race hot rodded electric cars and solar cars. Looking forward to the great comradery riding with a great bunch of characters and meeting some new ones.