Welcome to our Group Health Bike MS Bike Ride friends and family team. We are a cycling team that rode in the Multiple Sclerosis Society - Greater Washington MS Bike Ride in 2004, 2005 as Team Acropolis, 2006 as Team ShadowCatcher, 2007 as Team UW TMMBA BikeMS, and in 2008 as “Team Spruce presented by UW TMMBA.” Thank you to the UW Business School Technology Management MBA Program for our key sponsor for two years!!!!

To date, we have raised over $125,000!!! We raised over $38,000 in 2007 and were the top friends and family team, and raised over $24,000 in 2008.

Who are we? We are a diverse “friends and family” team of cyclists committed to helping those with MS. Join our team!

What is the “Bike MS Bike Tour”? The Bike MS Bike Ride (Formerly MS 150) is a fully-supported, two-day road ride, September 12-13, 2009, featuring a gorgeous route, a fun and friendly rider village, organized by the Greater Washington MS Society, to raise money to assist those who have MS and to find a cure.

What is Multiple Sclerosis? Multiple sclerosis (or MS) is a chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system.  Symptoms may be mild, such as numbness in the limbs, or severe, such as paralysis or loss of vision.  The progress, severity, and specific symptoms of MS are unpredictable and vary from one person to another.  There are approximately 400,000 people with MS in the US today.  Most people who are diagnosed are

between the ages of 20 and 50.  Today there is no cure, but new

treatments and advances in research are giving new hope to people affected by the disease.