Co-worker lost son in MC accident.

[Porkchop]

My co-worker's 21 year old son died in a motorcycle accident over the weekend.  I'll be going to the funeral on Monday.  He was young and reckless on his motorcycle and he paid the ultimate price.  The problem is that he also left a wake of greif and sorrow for his family and friends.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=89491&catid=187

[annguyen1981]

My prayers are with his friends and family.

[tt_four]

That's awful, as much as I liked to have fun on my last bike, I never forgot what it would be like for my parents to get a phone call saying I had died, it helped me keep my riding under control. It was bad enough when I ran into a deer on my ninja 250 when I was 19 or so and had to call them at 2:30 am to come pick me up. I came home plenty early for a long time after that just because I knew my mom wasn't about to fall asleep any time soon while I was still out on my bike.

[XealotX]

Few good things happen between 1 AM and 5 AM.

[yamahonkawazuki]

indeed, my friend, indeed. prayers sent

[JB848]

Prayers are with the family.

Excessive speeds late at night is always a recipe for disaster. No one is looking for bikes at that time of night let alone a dump truck?

It's a shame things like this happen but we read about them all of the time unfornately.

[Toogoofy317]

Words can't describe my empathy for you and your Co-workers family.

So many younger folks do not look at the consequences of their actions. Sometimes a small wreck like TT4 had to smarten them up and others as we have read on this board took it as "now I can get a bigger bike"

I have cleaned up way to many of the latter and even though I never "knew" the person it still hurt me to have to answer that call! I'd much rather answer the " I stubbed my toe call" vs " rider down no helmet". Although I gripe about the first! I really hate the second!

Again, my sympathies. 

Mary

[08GSSteve]

My thoughts go out to his family and friends.

RIP

[Porkchop]

I just got back from the funeral.  Hundreds of people and about a hundred bikes.  The hearse was a carraige pulled by a trike.  I didn't have my camera but here is a link to what it looked like http://www.cournoyerfh.com/?siteid=37&action=2&value=151&menuitem=216.  If I find some photos of the service I will post.

My co-worker belongs to the Buffalo Soldiers MC Club and her son was part of the Game 7 Riderz so there was a sea of riding vests displaying their colors.  The service was four hours long.  The pastor said the church has never seen a crowd this large.  I didn't care for the lecture on the evils of motorcycle riding though.  The pastor started the preaching portion of the service with "I'm not saying all bikes are bad, but it would take two guns and four policemen to get me to ride one" and he continued from there.   I didn't think it was appropriate considering most of the audience and the parents of the deceased were motorcyclists.  Despite all that, I thought the services as a whole was very touching.

BTW, the decease's name was Christopher "Myles" Ford (Riding Name C4).

RIP C4.

-Porkchop

 

[Jughead]

Back a couple of months Ago 2 kids got killed on a Dirt bike Playing Chicken with a Car.One was 13 and the other was 14.I knew both of thems  their Parents.

[08GSSteve]

Chicken with a car?..........I know kids do silly things but bloody hell.  Can I assume from the post they were brothers?(for the parents sanity I hope not) I can only imagine the hurt and grief the parents are feeling and going through.

[Jughead]

Nope they were just Friends.Both were going thru a Hard time since their Parents were always staying in trouble with the Law.

[bikegirl88]

I am so sorry to read this and saddened by the amount of death this season from accidents. 

Be safe out there everybody.

[tt_four]

Sometimes a small wreck like TT4 had to smarten them up and others as we have read on this board took it as "now I can get a bigger bike"

Yeah, it's definitely changed the way I ride(and drive) when it's dark out. I never rode too fast when it was dark, and I was rarely even out that late, I had just happened to have fallen asleep where I was, and woke up at 2am. I wasn't even going fast, but the deer was. There was no time to even see him coming and panic. The road was clear, and a fraction of a second later he was 2 inches infront of my face. Regardless, I rarely go over 25mph on a back road if it's dark, even if the speed limit is 35mph. Considering my wife has never been through a situtation like that, she still doesn't appriciate finger dents in her dashboard and me constantly freaking out at how fast she drives when it's dark.

I didn't care for the lecture on the evils of motorcycle riding though.  The pastor started the preaching portion of the service with "I'm not saying all bikes are bad, but it would take two guns and four policemen to get me to ride one" and he continued from there.   I didn't think it was appropriate considering most of the audience and the parents of the deceased were motorcyclists. 

It's also extremely lame when people use significant events in someones like to push their own opinions, whether it's something stupid like your opinion on motorcycles, or something more like religion or even racism, but that's how huge things tend to stick around so long, like a lasting fear of motorcycles. Some people have no idea when things are appropriate. It's like the lady who did my wedding ceremony. We told her several times that we're not religious, and we didn't want our ceremony to be religious, and yet she made everybody pray 4 times in the 20 minute ceremony and wouldn't stop talking about god. It was my wife's cousin, so what can you do, but still, way to push your own religious on one of the most important days of our life. Some people have no tact.