Team Profile: Meet Doug & Marion’s MS Erasers!

When Sharen Robinson picked up a RONA MS Bike Tours brochure more than 20 years ago, she had no idea she would eventually be heading up a team of119 spirited cyclists.

Doug & Marion’s MS Erasers is made up of friends and family and, as Sharen puts it, “friends of family members and family members of friends”. Inspired by the team’s enthusiasm and attitude that cycling ability is less important than enjoying the tour, new members soon bring in other first-time riders.

Sharen has seen her share of changes in this family-oriented team. “People go through life changes, get married, have children,” she says. "Someone may miss a year because of other commitments, but we always have new people coming in as well.”

Much of the team’s success is also due to Doug and Marion Smith from Doug and Marion’s Bike Sales & Repairs in Strathroy, which promotes the tours, raises pledges, and helps recruit team members from the cycling community.

Sharen says that her next goal is to get 150 team members, and then perhaps 200. But her ultimate goal is even larger. “Every one of us is raising funds for a disease that we want to see eliminated. We ride for those who can’t.”

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