Most Interesting Riding Companions

What a story!
It is very nice to have a large friend
There is one like that in the group that I usually ride with
He rides a GS adventure and it looks like a mini bike with him riding it, he has helped riders in distress so many times

 

A dear friend, now sadly no longer with us was always a large lad, 6'2" and around 18 stone when we were teenagers. He was kind, funny and Always ready to help anyone, like a lot of big guys he was a gentle giant but when angered, truly terrifying. Loved his bikes, especially two strokes, he only owned 3 bikes his whole life, an RD 250, 350 and a KH500 which were still in his possession when he died. Anyhow he was serving a riding ban in the 70s so I used to carry him pillion on my YDS7, I was about 10 stone then, actually I still am. It was a challenge to get used to all the extra weight and every time we went over a bump my bike would cut out, couldnt work out why, turns out all the extra weight was forcing the metal seat base down and shorting the battery terminals. One night we absolutely slaughtered on cider and wobbling the bike up a very steep country lane home with the bike intermittently cutting out and bursting back into life so I stood up on the pegs and gave it a big fistful, pulled an almost vertical wheelie and flew up the lane, frealised john had disappeared so I stopped and waited, finally he came limping around the corner with my rear indicators in his hand. R.I.P. Big John, I think about you every day.

 

We gave him a good biker send off.