Thread: Time to move on

Well, friends, it's time to move on. My son's funeral and wake was yesterday.

About 200 people attended the funeral and wake - both Lee's (Bucko) and my colleagues as we both worked in the same industry with the same people (I followed him into the industry so it was like son, like father), friends of his from the motorcycle world (including the editor of Two Wheels, the premier motorbike magazine in Australia - they are running a story in the April issue!), colleagues of mine who knew Lee as a child, family and friends.

The number of motorcycles was amazing - fortunately only 2 Harleys were there - he detested them (he must have got that from me - and they were ridden just to annoy him .

We played a DVD version of this (thanks T-Bone of the Two Wheels forum for making it) as friends wrote messages and stuck stickers on his coffin (anyone who had been to his house would understand - the refrigerator was covered in stickers).


YouTube - Bucko

I'd like to thank everyone here who helped us get through this over the past 10+ days. It's damn difficult to reply individually to you all.

I hope you haven't minded the caricature that was commissioned especially for us by a lady from the Two Wheels forum - thanks Christie.



I'll be back at my post shortly annoying you all (after I collect all his possessions - including 11 motorcycles).

Thanks again

Ron, Elisabeth, and Lyndal

Originally Posted by moose

The grieving process is a very personal thing Ron, I'm amazed you even have the composure to post at all, let alone such personal things as the video.

Some others have questioned that, too. Grieving may be personal but he was someone that could make friends anywhere - I can't - so maybe I was sharing my grief.

Posting actually helped me. Posting was much easier than actually speaking to someone at first. When telling someone about for the first time, I'd break down. The video was a mini-snapshot of him and was initially intended for those who attended the funeral.

But then I thought, bugger it, I'll annoy you all with it, too.