Meet The New Rider Ed Maulbeck # 1000 E

I’m originally from a small town called Livingston in North New Jersey not far from New York City.  I was a Union Carpenter in my early twenties with a calling for something more out of life.  I joined the Navy in 1988 to become a Navy SEAL, I attended Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Training and graduated in Class 161 and spent a twenty-year career as a SEAL Team member, retiring as a Commander. Currently I still support the Navy SEAL Community as a private contractor/owner of a small business.  I’m also the owner/operator of an Indian Motorcycle Dealership in Newport News, VA (Indian Motorcycle of Southeastern Virginia).  In my limited spare time I like to travel, motorcycle ride and scuba dive.

I really enjoy racking-up mileage on motorcycles alone, with others, and on group rides (I refer to it as wind-therapy).  I’ve recently had a rough last couple of years with some personal problems that persist. Physically a lot of neck/back/spine issues and a broken back from a military parachuting accident, and 20-year career as a Navy SEAL.  I almost completely stopped riding from 2004-2013. I remain positive and I am blessed with great friends and family, and I feel this event is something that will help me refocus and grow as an individual.  I expect it to be spiritual…It will be nice to focus on the basics of life while dealing with/enjoying all the challenges that will come with the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge .  I will likely develop additional bonds (potentially lifetime/long-term) bonds with others regarding our shared experiences of adversity, enjoyment and accomplishment. I’m blessed to be 100% physically able to participate in the 2020 HHMC.

I learned about the challenge from Scott Bradley (HHMC 2020 Rider #1000S), as he was shopping for the right bike for the challenge, I learned more and more about it and knew that this is something that I must do. As I worked for months with Scott Bradley to identify the right motorcycle for him to purchase for his HHMC.  I thought of an idea to get him and Terry Mathes (HHMC 2020 Rider #1000T) a pair of all-new Deepwater Blue 2020 Indian Challengers.  Indian Motorcycle Rentals decided to provide two brand new motorcycles for them to use to prep for the challenge and participate.  Everything started to connect, I read every bit of information about the HHMC and I realized that I needed to do it also.  I felt the need so much that I don’t want to wait until 2022…   I need to do it now (and probably again in 2022, God-willing).  It’s a great honor being selected to participate.



The Navy SEALs Fund is one of the Mike Martin (HHMC 2018 participant and founding President of the Frogman Motorcycle Club that passed away unexpectedly last year) funds that Scott and Terry are both supporting for HHMC 2020.  Ironically, Mike Martin’s other fund was the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Warrior Foundation, Tampa, FL, and one of my two partnered non-profit/charities that I’ve partnered my Indian Motorcycle Dealership with since inception.  Also, while still on active-duty, myself and three other SEALs paddled two tandem kayaks from Norfolk, VA two-hundred miles up the Chesapeake Bay into the Potomac River to Washington, DC, in the dead of winter and through snowstorms.  Countless people said it couldn’t be done and about ten others that planned to join us bailed out before we started.  Another ten very experienced paddlers tried to paddle the first day with us and could not handle the storm conditions at launch and quit immediately while we paddled away on our journey.  We made all the way, it made the local news/newspapers and was a key part in an ABC 20/20 episode.  We raised over $10,000 and awareness for the SOF Warrior Foundation .  I’m honored to continue my support and I do it in honor of MCPO SEAL Mike Martin for “Mike’s other charity.”