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Road smitten: hooked on the MS Bike Ride: two people show that if you give a bike a try, you just might get hooked on the high of riding the MS Bike Ride.

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Pushed to ride by the "Lagers"

Lloyd von Sprecken first got involved with the MS Bike Ride in 1996 because his son Todd, all avid cyclist, was riding. He volunteered on the overnight and helped at the finish line the next day. The very next year Lloyd was diagnosed with MS.

"I was 60 years old. My foot-dragging had started about four years earlier. My family thought it was just a muscle problem. Then came the numbness a year before diagnosis."

For the next two years, Lloyd again volunteered while Todd and other family members rode. "The team kept encouraging me to ride," he said. "They said 'get that old bugger out there!'"

It didn't seem possible for someone with walking and balance problems, Lloyd recalled. But in 1999, Todd turned up with an old tandem bike he'd found. "I hadn't been on a bike for years. I'd never done any serious cycling," Lloyd...

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