Buckster

@Six30 would probably enjoy it.

I’m not even sure how I ended up on a forum run by Pete, I suspect it was from Advrider, that and bad luck. We spoke on the phone quite a lot, he asked for advice when he was setting up the business in Spain and we stayed in touch but never got around to meeting, the reality is that we interacted frequently, often daily for over 20 years, I still cannot believe he is gone. I have to say that I don’t think this place can survive without Pete driving it, if we all want to stay in touch then I’m inclined to start a private Facebook group, the cost of running the forum would probably become a problem ultimately, Pete put it on his existing servers so that swallowed some of the cost, as a stand alone it would cost something like £500 a year to operate and without Pete I think we will all drift away from it because he was the glue that held it together.

It isn't harley ownership that tempered me.

On the way home she should abandon the urn in a derelict building.

I’ve never given you any shit, how rude! I’m a gentle soul.

Restricted arteries, people adapt and it only shows up when it reaches a chronic stage.

His heart muscle will have been damaged by the heart attack, it rarely shows up before hand.

Hernia.

Dementia has obviously set in.

Okay then just this once.

Pete would have loved these.

I heard they were putting his ashes next to Margaret Thatchers memorial.

I’m going to increase the damping a little.

That’s @Pedro’s day ruined.

Busa is far right.

You’re not wrong.

His boy will have to sort out the hosting with his web clients etc.. we may be able to get admin access at that point and do something from there.

It just had a PHP and database update so there shouldn’t be any issues for a good while.

Yes but I ride like a boss.

No we don’t have that access.

As long as we keep you wetbacks out it was worth it.

That’s the only reason we like you.

Feels strange to not see some thought provoking possibly acidic posts from Pete here this morning as he invariably kicked the week off and got everyone posting. It occurred to me that we have lost one of the old guard, we have seen a lot of this over the years in the motorcycle scene, some from natural causes, some bike accidents, other more tragic events like Chopstick Jim. It is the consequence of getting older that you see people pass on. In Pete’s case he will be missed because quite simply he was a giant in the online motorcycle scene, he had a unique way of bringing people together online. Unlike just about everyone else who runs forums, Pete never took himself too seriously, he was as fair game for piss taking as anyone else. I’m half expecting to find he has been interned in a crypt built in the shape of a Shad top box and still slightly smaller than the one fitted to his bike. The internet seems a little quieter this morning and the world feels a little emptier.