Thanks to all.
Dave's family are very conscious of his connection to OzFireStorm & have included us in their mourning process. It's been an ordeal for everyone & a lot of us will be riding up to a thousand kms this coming Thursday to come together for the funeral. Fingers crossed for a safe journey for all.
I'll send a link to this thread so the family can read the kind thoughts coming from so far away.
RIP Dave Gorham, OzFireStorm
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Well, everyone, thanks again for your wishes. Dave's wife & brother-in-law have both looked in here & pass on their appreciation also.
The funeral was around 900kms from where I live, so I left home on Tuesday & picked up another two Storms en route. We managed 15 bikes to follow the hearse, all FireStorms, with Dave's wife in front of the hearse going pillion with a copper friend on a Blackbird. The funeral was Catholic, so I'll shut my mouth on that, but we were able to give him a brilliant send-off that I know would've given him some serious chuckles. Revving the guts out of the bikes at every opportunity, we raised heads, saw ears covered & even induced a salute from a little old lady as the whole procession went by. The local news picked up the story & we made the second item, although they only sent a camera man so there was no sound. Not to worry though, because we figured everyone would've heard us & put two & two together when they saw the news...
The weather was crappy the whole time, but I always think that's kinda fitting for a funeral.
The only down-side (apart from the obvious), was to watch the fella I rode home with, go for about a 30m slide down the road in the middle of nowhere thanks to a massive deisel spill & then to finally make it home (through freezing rain the whole 900k) late last night to find two more members had come off! All okay though.
The funeral was around 900kms from where I live, so I left home on Tuesday & picked up another two Storms en route. We managed 15 bikes to follow the hearse, all FireStorms, with Dave's wife in front of the hearse going pillion with a copper friend on a Blackbird. The funeral was Catholic, so I'll shut my mouth on that, but we were able to give him a brilliant send-off that I know would've given him some serious chuckles. Revving the guts out of the bikes at every opportunity, we raised heads, saw ears covered & even induced a salute from a little old lady as the whole procession went by. The local news picked up the story & we made the second item, although they only sent a camera man so there was no sound. Not to worry though, because we figured everyone would've heard us & put two & two together when they saw the news...
The weather was crappy the whole time, but I always think that's kinda fitting for a funeral.
The only down-side (apart from the obvious), was to watch the fella I rode home with, go for about a 30m slide down the road in the middle of nowhere thanks to a massive deisel spill & then to finally make it home (through freezing rain the whole 900k) late last night to find two more members had come off! All okay though.
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