Suzuki Owner's Club of North America to Ride for the ALR

Local business working to encourage, support motorcycle safety awareness
by Andrea Schneider

Stone Anthony, President and founder of the Suzuki Owners Club of North America (SOC), along with Joe Summers, Treasurer of the SOC Veterans Rider Group accepted a trailer donated by Homesteader, Inc. to be used on their Safety Awareness Tour of Tennessee. Anthony and Summers are pictured here with Dion and Anthony Mountain in front of the trailer Homesteader donated to the cause.
NEW TAZEWELL—Homesteader, Inc. will be supporting motorcycle safety awareness as one of the sponsors for the Suzuki Owners Club of North America’s (SOC) safety awareness tour of Tennessee.The SOC, an organization of Suzuki Brand motorcycle enthusiasts, is presenting an event called the 2009 Tennessee Roadway Safety Awareness Tour.The tour will consist of 76 cities in 76 days. According to information from the group’s official website www.suzukiownersclub.org, “The focus of the tour is to get everyone on the road to be attentive to motorcyclists, as well as other vulnerable road users when many more riders are taking to the streets. The more important part of this effort is to increase awareness among the non-riding majority.”Beginning on March 2, 2009 the SOC will be touring the state of Tennessee stopping at various locations in cities across the state. The tour will stop at a variety of different venues including Suzuki dealers, Homesteader Inc. dealerships, and Advance Auto Parts stores, to name a few.The tour will stop in Claiborne County at the Homesteader, Inc. dealership on May 4 and will be at that location from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.At each stop the SOC will be selling tickets for a two giveaway bikes. Tickets will be sold for a chance to win one of two 2009 Suzuki C109RT motorcycles. The two giveaway bikes will be transported from city to city in a trailer donated by Homesteader, Inc. The trailer will also house two vintage Harley Davidson bikes. All the proceeds from giveaway ticket sales will be divided for various funds including the Alliance for Lupus Research, American Red Cross (Tennessee Chapters), the Wheels through Time Motorcycle Museum, Motorcycle Awareness Foundation of Tennessee, Bikers against Child Abuse, and the SOC. For more information on the tour visit the SOC official website at www.suzukiownersclub.org and click the “Cruising for Awareness” link.

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