INTRODUCTION: I am a hard working businessman, who has, for 35 years, owned McAllister Enterprises, a commercial photography and advertising production studio. Our area of expertise is shooting photographs of product and preparing ads for brochures and magazines. My newest business is an Internet company called MC2products, which sells products that you can't find just anywhere. We have lightning detectors, GPS units, car tracking devices, camping equipment, motorcycle and bicycle accessories, communication radios, and more. If it is unique we try to carry it.
BACKGROUND: My dad sold motorcycles and he gave me my first bike when I was 8 years old. Motorcycling was a family affair for us. I can remember going to the drive-in movies all on one bike. My dad would be driving with me on the gas tank and my mother on the back with my infant sister in her lap.Today, dad and mom would be having a visit from Child Protective Services, but they were great memories for us. I spent a lot of my youth with my dad, hunting, fishing, scuba diving, shooting and, of course, riding motorcycles.
I did a lot of road riding my whole life. In the summer of 1996 a group of us would get together on Sunday mornings and hammer the back roads of CT and MA. before the church let out and the traffic started. One Sunday morning, during the breakfast break, my friends and I were talking about how dangerous our rides were and we decided that the track would be a better place for this kind of fun. That Monday, I called the Penguin Roadracing School in Mansfield, MA and four of us took the school the next weekend. I was the oldest of the group. I got hooked on track time and went to every track day I could for the remainder of 1996. At the end of the season I wanted more and took a trip to the Homestead Florida track, to take the Penguin Roadracing School advanced course taught by Eric Wood.
In 1997 I entered my first road race at Loudon (New Hampshire International Speedway). What a rush!! I used to think that I was fast on a bike until I started racing. Entering turn one for the first time in a race, I had a bike on my left and right and both of them were way to close for my comfort. While I was thinking about that another front wheel came between the bike on my right and me. I didn't think it was going to be possible to even get to turn one. I wanted a helicopter to pick me up and get me the **** out of there. I said to myself, "What the hell am I doing out here with these kids who don't know they can get killed doing this?" By the time I got to turn three, traffic had thinned and I was in race mode. Racing is, without a doubt, the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
The first weekend I only did one race and didn't win a trophy; but everyother weekend that year, and for the next two years, I won trophies every weekend. Some weekends I received three podium finishes out of three races. I spent the first year as an Amateur, the second as a Jr. Expert and now have moved to Expert for the start of my 3rd year. I now help teach the on-track portion of the Penguin Roadracing School advanced class with Eric Wood.
The 2001 Racing Season: I plan to race every event at Loudon this year and am also adding aweekends to Rauschcreek, PA. I will end the searon by racing at Daytona in Oct. of 2001. Mark Olsen and I prepared the engine for my Kawasaki ZX-7 and the suspension has been setup by Peter at GMD computrack. I have my sights set on the Formula 40 championship this year. That won't be easy with some of the competition having been racing for over 20 years, but I think it is a realistic goal. I hope some of you seeing this will come to Loudon, NH and cheer me on.
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