rictus01
28-03-06, 11:52 PM
this is just for me, helps to type out my feelings, kind of sorts the brain, if you know what I mean, forgive the rambling and self indulgance for a while.
Never good news
84 years on this earth, all over and done with, the loss of a personnel hero.
A friend of mine died today, I got the word this afternoon, not someone from this board, but one of those people who just click, Don was a great guy, a true fountain of wisdom on all things motorbike related, was a race mechanic in the 50’s (bikes), he rode up until last summer, before it all got too much for him. Ill for sometime now, so everyone was expecting it, but still a bit of a shock.
I was the kid, the youngster of the group; you know when you’re in the company of those who you feel privileged to associate with. Within that company I knew very little and a lot went straight over my head, not something I’m used to at all, but it never really worried me. It kind of made a nice counter point to the role I find myself in here.
He gave me so much over the last 15 years, not just in the motorbike sense, but life in general. Probably responsible for influencing a good deal of my life philosophy, he was the only one to understand my ride out to the end of AR05, 47 hours after surgery, “well you’ve got to know right” were his words, people though me crazy to try, but it was just something I had to do, and he knew it. A great believer in the “pick yourself up, dust your self off, and get on with it” school of thought.
Anyway, enough of that, just talking to Jean his wife today, their cremating him Friday, just family, as per his request, he’s not going down in his Sunday best, but rather his bike leathers (that will take a bit longer then), but the memorial is being held in his old work shop later that afternoon, attire ? Black leathers what else would you expect.
A sad loss, but then I think of how Don would have looked at it, “good innings and on balance no regrets”.
Never good news
84 years on this earth, all over and done with, the loss of a personnel hero.
A friend of mine died today, I got the word this afternoon, not someone from this board, but one of those people who just click, Don was a great guy, a true fountain of wisdom on all things motorbike related, was a race mechanic in the 50’s (bikes), he rode up until last summer, before it all got too much for him. Ill for sometime now, so everyone was expecting it, but still a bit of a shock.
I was the kid, the youngster of the group; you know when you’re in the company of those who you feel privileged to associate with. Within that company I knew very little and a lot went straight over my head, not something I’m used to at all, but it never really worried me. It kind of made a nice counter point to the role I find myself in here.
He gave me so much over the last 15 years, not just in the motorbike sense, but life in general. Probably responsible for influencing a good deal of my life philosophy, he was the only one to understand my ride out to the end of AR05, 47 hours after surgery, “well you’ve got to know right” were his words, people though me crazy to try, but it was just something I had to do, and he knew it. A great believer in the “pick yourself up, dust your self off, and get on with it” school of thought.
Anyway, enough of that, just talking to Jean his wife today, their cremating him Friday, just family, as per his request, he’s not going down in his Sunday best, but rather his bike leathers (that will take a bit longer then), but the memorial is being held in his old work shop later that afternoon, attire ? Black leathers what else would you expect.
A sad loss, but then I think of how Don would have looked at it, “good innings and on balance no regrets”.