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I found one photo of Wayne's VTR in my backups. It was a stunning bike.



Al.

Also found a picture of Daz Sear's bike -

nice....... some serious time, effort and cash went into those bikes.







as a side question, who is the longest serving, and still active, member of the forum?

when I joined there was the likes of Timbo, FirestormMike, Kaz etc very active, and also that was at the time when Marty [ZeroZero] found out about his terminal Diagnosis.......... who else was around then and still here........... and why

looks like people like Iggy, Tony.Wilde1 and Fireman on a storm [from early 2003] still log in ............ although not actively posting these days.

otherwise Sirch wins as Oct 2003, then Pete.L, Simon t, and Stratman later in 03

Kev L wrote:Talking of old members does anyone remember Wayne M from stanstead? He was a member through 2003 and his bike sounds a bit special, carbon fibre tank, mario body kit, usd front, Penske rear, and lots of other bits and bobs.
I was looking through some old posts and his bike kept coming up, unfortunately all picture links have gone

Sadly. He died.
He was such a charismatic character, he was one of the reasons I went to the first ever Firestorm meet. I wanted to meet the man and his bike( which was the heaviest modded storm I had ever seen and dripping in carbon)..
Unfortunately he never made it. On his way a car pulled out on him and that was that. One poor young man in his mid thirties, leaving a loving wife and two daughters if I remember correctly, taken away far too early.
Such a shame

Pete.L wrote:

Kev L wrote:Talking of old members does anyone remember Wayne M from stanstead? He was a member through 2003 and his bike sounds a bit special, carbon fibre tank, mario body kit, usd front, Penske rear, and lots of other bits and bobs.
I was looking through some old posts and his bike kept coming up, unfortunately all picture links have gone

Sadly. He died.
He was such a charismatic character, he was one of the reasons I went to the first ever Firestorm meet. I wanted to meet the man and his bike( which was the heaviest modded storm I had ever seen and dripping in carbon)..
Unfortunately he never made it. On his way a car pulled out on him and that was that. One poor young man in his mid thirties, leaving a loving wife and two daughters if I remember correctly, taken away far too early.
Such a shame

I'm soooo glad you remembered that Pete, as it was in the back of my mind it was WayneM who unfortunately lost his life on the way to a Firestorm meet up, but I wasn't 100% sure, so I couldn't post that up without being certain. You can just imagine if I'd got the wrong person I remember it though, just like it was yesterday. Very sad

You're right though, he certainly was a charismatic character.

RIP Wayne, you may be gone, but you're not forgotten,

Chris.

Pete.L wrote:

Kev L wrote:Talking of old members does anyone remember Wayne M from stanstead? He was a member through 2003 and his bike sounds a bit special, carbon fibre tank, mario body kit, usd front, Penske rear, and lots of other bits and bobs.
I was looking through some old posts and his bike kept coming up, unfortunately all picture links have gone

Sadly. He died.
He was such a charismatic character, he was one of the reasons I went to the first ever Firestorm meet. I wanted to meet the man and his bike( which was the heaviest modded storm I had ever seen and dripping in carbon)..
Unfortunately he never made it. On his way a car pulled out on him and that was that. One poor young man in his mid thirties, leaving a loving wife and two daughters if I remember correctly, taken away far too early.
Such a shame

Lump in my throat reading that

Poor sod. Sorry to stir up old memories chaps. Beautiful looking bike, just as good as it sounded in the description.
He had all the work done by a guy called Dell, another past member on here with some skills, apparently.
Thanks to all for the update.

firestorm_al wrote:I found one photo of Wayne's VTR in my backups. It was a stunning bike.



Al.

As said, an utter tragedy.

For those interested in buying something similar (at the cost of half a Firestorm!)

http://www.motoforzafairings.com/en/pro ... -version-1

Kev L wrote:Poor sod. Sorry to stir up old memories chaps. Beautiful looking bike, just as good as it sounded in the description.
He had all the work done by a guy called Dell, another past member on here with some skills, apparently.
Thanks to all for the update.

Dell was a motor mechanic for some team down at Brands. He had all sorts of contacts from different manufacturers if I recall correctly, hence all the trick bits. We passed a few messages back and forth for a while. Unfortunately his heart just wasn't into bikes anymore after what happened to Wayne ( they were riding up together when it happened) Don't know what he's up to now. He was supping up cars and got into drifting after the accident.
Actually, we all owe him a word of thanks. He was the first one to modify the ctts. He did all sorts of testing to make sure it would work and prove it could be done successfully.


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Talented guy, and I can understand that day taking the shine off bikes.

Del had a heavily modified streetfightered Storm. I'll try and dig out some photos of his bike and post them up.

Al.

now that is Moriwaki porn with added spondon and dymag mac fluid

Well done Al,
Definitely worth another look:-)


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