Tracey, what can I say, we had laughs and took the piss got drunk and spent many miles on motorbikes speeding through France and Italy sleeping in tents and hotels, a funny memory of Tracey : we rode through the night towards Italy on the first night we all stopped at a roadside area where you can camp. We all had a bbq and quite a few beers, Tracey set his tent up right next to mine and proudly produced his gleaming new pots pans cooked and every other camping things he brought along all packed fastidiously into his bike luggage, we all got drunk and went to bed about 12 at night. I was woken by some clanging and clinking of metal and the noises from Tracy’s tent! “What’s going in Trace ?” He came back with I’m getting my bike packed up to which I looked at my watch it was 3am!! “It’s flipping 3am!! I shouted !! He came back with but I’ve got a lot to put away it’s alright for you you only have a few bits! Of course I laughed (not) it eventually went quiet and I got a bit more sleep ( well until Kenny decided that Gorillas in the mist was the best way to wake everyone one up at 6am followed by 8 fat blokes doing mad Lizzie style warm ups which Tracey thought was mad and so declined. Well after sitting having tea abs bacon rolls we were all packed up our bikes watched by Tracey who was all proud of his OCD style of his bike while we all stuffed bits here and there. Once we were all ready to go we heard a comment from Tracey “ right cone on you two fuckers (talking to me abs mark) give me my bike keys!” Not me I said not me said , he wasn’t having it he insisted and insulted us for ten minutes but no keys were given up! Suddenly a thought occurred to me “err trace what was you wearing last night ?” It was the free jackets we forced the poor guy at helmet city to give us about 3wks before. So there we where 8 blokes ready to go all the while watching Tracey unpack his immense amount of luggage to find the jacket and there they were his bike keys. Of course Tracey went out of his way to apologise to me and mark ( did he bollocks he got on his bike and grinned and rode off)!!! With us all never mentioning it again until we stopped every time for the next week!!
One of many trip stories of this man and his ways.
RIP mate ride /drive fast and grin forever more.
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