Remembering Pete

[Renegade]

8 minutes ago, zzzak said:

 

72 in about 90 days, that makes me the oldest, smartest and best looking.

And I'm 72 in November.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

3 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

Hope you will stay around for a bit. If you don't mind me asking what happened with your Father or was it your Mother can't remember now it was so long ago.

Of course I will. I loved the mans company.

Pete was a big presence and even in the short time I knew him, influential.

Im still actually carrying the polystyrene boxes ready to transport his pukka pies to him in my panniers. Thats how much he can effect you!

My own ma? that's painfully ongoing, and not necessarily in a good way. Heyho. You play the cards you're dealt!

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

21 minutes ago, Renegade said:

And I'm 72 in November.

 Crikey. 

My Pops is 76 and he whizzes about like life hasn't touched him. 

I just swapped the Himalayan for an Indian. 

He sat on it and said ok, wanna go halves?

I couldn't imagine anything nicer!

[zzzak]

35 minutes ago, Renegade said:

And I'm 72 in November.

I'll be waiting young fella.

 

[Six30]

20 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

 Crikey. 

My Pops is 76 and he whizzes about like life hasn't touched him. 

I just swapped the Himalayan for an Indian. 

He sat on it and said ok, wanna go halves?

I couldn't imagine anything nicer!

An Indian … pics or …

[KAYZ1]

5 hours ago, MooN said:

I was bringing a group ride back from the alps / vercors when i got Bucks message this morning. It took me a while to process. By the time i got halfway home it was pissing down with rain an thunder claps you could hear over the exhaust noise. It 30 odd years i have rarely ridden in such bad weather.

 

Thanks Pete.

hi Moon, how are the babies  Lyn.

Still have a tear in my eye today, Dell is the same.. Too soon...

Lyn.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

6 minutes ago, Six30 said:

An Indian … pics or …

Hmm you're an annoying draw  

First and only ride out so far.

 

[Buckster]

1 hour ago, zzzak said:

 

72 in about 90 days, that makes me the oldest, smartest and best looking.

Dementia has obviously set in.

[zzzak]

I know one of ya said something but I'm not sure who.

[alfalfa]

9 hours ago, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

Ok...you second then....

For Pete...I'm only doing this for Pete. 

 

S

 

such sad news about Pete.  I saw his FB post and just figured it was simple surgery.

 

I really dont think posting pics of ugly vaginas is showing the right respect, tho.

 

[Saul]

I am sure this will be classed as gay but I don’t really care.  I wanted to say something about Pete.  It's funny but even though we never met I have come to look on him as a friend who I spoke to most days.  Please you that knew him much longer and better than me do the same, I and I am sure others would like to read it. 

I liked his manner and the way he would call me out for being a cunt when I was, straight talking honest friends are rare and should be valued.  Sometimes you need to look at yourself and what you are doing. He ran this website well and showed a tolerance and the same friendship to some character’s with pretty extreme views not just because of what they could offer to the place.  Also because he saw value in them and their views.  I liked that, regularly talking to people I would not in most walks of life is a good and valuable learning experience. That environment Pete created with his forceful personality.  If you can get by In this sometimes harsh forum it makes you a stronger person in everyday normal life, I liked that too.  Interesting place run by an Interesting Guy.   

I liked his consistent hatred of most things Chinese and Indian unless he was buying them, his quick fire consistent POS posts made me laugh.  His refusal to see any value in the same unless of course it was something he bought.  Bloody Negatron but Funny Guy.  

Also I think sometimes we forget of the time and effort and finance he put into this place, because he believed in it and it was his creation.  To our benefit of course.  Oh and the last thing that I liked was talking to him was often like taking a trip back the the 1970’s with his views and some outlooks on life, my formative years that I look back on with fondness for all the flaws of the time.  Good Guy

Hopefully we can continue in this forum and stop it going to hell in a hand basket, which it may very well do without him.  

Pete a friend I’m going to miss.  

The self proclaimed Rugged Individualist. 

Cheers Shad Man 

[Six30]

well said @Saul , it wont be the same on here with out him and he is going to be missed big time,  but i hope we can keep it going... 

 

your the only friends i got on here and im banned from all the other forums .

[Clive]

Eloquently put @Saul..... my feeble attempts at writing anything along those lines would just come out as inconsistent mess.

Your words speak for me to some extent.....  

[Clive]

6 minutes ago, Six30 said:

well said @Saul 

 

your the only friends i got on here and im banned from all the other forums .

And a voice from above said "cos you are a annoying cunt"  

[Six30]

4 minutes ago, Clive said:

And a voice from above said "cos you are a annoying cunt"  

[Buckster]

11 hours ago, Six30 said:

 

Hernia.

[Six30]

1 minute ago, Buckster said:

Hernia.

the twat aint even seen it

[boboneleg]

In 2002 I was in a pretty low place.  I'd had an accident the year before in which I lost my leg and now I was sitting at home after more surgery just moping around. 

I decided to get a PC and see if there was anything on the internet to brighten things up a bit. I came across a motorcycle forum that looked a good laugh and started to get to know some of the characters,  @Buckster, @Renegade @YamaHead @MooN @Catteeclan @Pedro @Tym @Specs @Sir Fallsalot @yen_powell and many more (my apologies to anyone I've forgotten).  They were an eclcectic bunch with all sorts of views but most of all no one took themselves too seriously .

The guy who ran it @XTreme was my kind of man as @Saul says above,  a straight talker but bloody funny at the same time.  I can't tell you how much it lifted my spirits and it was my 'go to'  forum.  When Pete started this forum up I was so excited to catch up with old friends and carry on with the banter and meet (virtually) lots of new guys and gals as well.

No other forum I've been on has ever matched any of Pete's creations, he led from the front and was always trying to keep things chugging along .    Good  luck today Pete an wherever you end up I'm certain you'll be having a laugh.

 

[Six30]

22 minutes ago, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

I wish I could also write just has well has you Saul...I'm still trying to wrap my head around this ...Pete will definitely be missed ...He always accepted how weird and quirky ( myself included)  some of us are with open arms ..had this twisted sence of humor that made laugh to tears at times ...just don't understand why such a routine surgery went so horribly wrong and it wasn't caught by doctors before his hernia operation...

i thought the same , he had a pre op appointment before hernia op , i though they checked all your vitals , thought something would of been picked up then..

[Buckster]

1 minute ago, Six30 said:

i thought the same , he had a pre op appointment before hernia op , i though they checked all your vitals , thought something would of been picked up then..

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

[Buckster]

8 minutes ago, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

I understand the damage to the heart after the heart attack...but don't get how can someone with three blocked arteries can pass a vital exam before going under for his hernia surgery...

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

[Pedro]

I met Pete online in 2002 I think, when I bought my Transalp 650. I had joined AdvRider at the time, and he just sent me a message on there to invite me to DualSport UK. At the time, he also had a Transalp 650 and was still living in Wales. It was a new thing to me, bike forums, and turns out  I quite liked the small intimate group on a forum like that compared to the vastness of AdvRider or even Horizons Unlimited. It's the closest thing to a motorcycle club clubhouse there is online. 

I literally had started riding a few weeks before joining that forum I think, and started posting my first ride reports literally figuring out how to go on a motorcycle. I was happy to be amongst @modrover, @YamaHead, @Sir Fallsalot, @boboneleg, @Renegade, @Catteeclan, @yen_powell, @MooN, and even @Tym and @Buckster who gave me so much shit I considered leaving plenty of times. With some of those people a relationship grew to frequent communications outside of the forum.

I did my first longer ride on a bike to meet @XTreme and Alie, now recently moved to southern Spain and in search of a place to live, before they settled on the house they've been in until now. Then a second meet up in their current house a couple of years later, in which he took a picture of me trying to kickstart his XT350, that picture haunted me to this day at every opportunity 

DSUK turned to Maximumbikes, then somehow I grew apart and the forum also disappeared and turned to a facebook thing, I think. Years later, I was very happy to get a second private message, again through AdvRider , as an invitation to join this current forum. My life had by then changed, as did I, and I talked a lot with Pete, he and his wife again becoming good friends, this forum has since then provided a needed internet home and I've used it to vent a lot. He loved that I posted my Morocco ride reports on here and I loved doing those too. He supported me during a few moments when he felt I was about to leave, keeping most of his opinions off the forum to try and avoid exits, because he loved to provide people with this space for them to gather around and didn't want anyone to leave on account of him.

This forum is not going to be the same without him, and I doubt it'll survive without him, he pulled it forward with sheer enthusiasm. His over the top self confidence and absence of fear of ridicule were his favourite tools for the job, and you can't help but appreciate that.

He and his wife are friends, real world friends, and I'm desolated she lost him in such a quick and surprising way.

[Pedro]

Today, Pete will be cremated and his ashes brought home by his wife.

[Buckster]

13 minutes ago, Pedro said:

I met Pete online in 2002 I think, when I bought my Transalp 650. I had joined AdvRider at the time, and he just sent me a message on there to invite me to DualSport UK. At the time, he also had a Transalp 650 and was still living in Wales. It was a new thing to me, bike forums, and turns out  I quite liked the small intimate group on a forum like that compared to the vastness of AdvRider or even Horizons Unlimited. It's the closest thing to a motorcycle club clubhouse there is online. 

I literally had started riding a few weeks before joining that forum I think, and started posting my first ride reports literally figuring out how to go on a motorcycle. I was happy to be amongst @modrover, @YamaHead, @Sir Fallsalot, @boboneleg, @Renegade, @Catteeclan, @yen_powell, @MooN, and even @Tym and @Buckster who gave me so much shit I considered leaving plenty of times. With some of those people a relationship grew to frequent communications outside of the forum.

I did my first longer ride on a bike to meet @XTreme and Alie, now recently moved to southern Spain and in search of a place to live, before they settled on the house they've been in until now. Then a second meet up in their current house a couple of years later, in which he took a picture of me trying to kickstart his XT350, that picture haunted me to this day at every opportunity 

DSUK turned to Maximumbikes, then somehow I grew apart and the forum also disappeared and turned to a facebook thing, I think. Years later, I was very happy to get a second private message, again through AdvRider , as an invitation to join this current forum. My life had by then changed, as did I, and I talked a lot with Pete, he and his wife again becoming good friends, this forum has since then provided a needed internet home and I've used it to vent a lot. He loved that I posted my Morocco ride reports on here and I loved doing those too. He supported me during a few moments when he felt I was about to leave, keeping most of his opinions off the forum to try and avoid exits, because he loved to provide people with this space for them to gather around and didn't want anyone to leave on account of him.

This forum is not going to be the same without him, and I doubt it'll survive without him, he pulled it forward with sheer enthusiasm. His over the top self confidence and absence of fear of ridicule were his favourite tools for the job, and you can't help but appreciate that.

He and his wife are friends, real world friends, and I'm desolated she lost him in such a quick and surprising way.

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

[Buckster]

11 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Today, Pete will be cremated and his ashes brought home by his wife.

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