Bikers collide in Canterbury (12 December)

**KiwiPhoenix** · 17th December 2009, 19:36

Will be there also! It will be an honour to ride with Ewan and you all for this ride!

**Mr Triple** · 17th December 2009, 22:33

Originally Posted by shrub

Sean and I spent last night with Seona, Alli and Mike and she's amazingly positive and strong and will be riding her SV1000 on Friday. We'll be riding for you Aberdeen bikers, so you'll be represented in the brotherhood that is motorcycling.

If you're in Christchurch, please come along to 195 Clyde Rd at 2.15 Friday even if you don't know Ewan and Seona. She wants as many bikes as possible to represent the people who knew them in Scotland but can't be there and because over time the odds are good you'll get to know her.

Let's ride together for Ewan, he was a good bastard.

Condolences to the family.
I am keen as to be part of this, as I know a good turn out is also what I would like, as you have said Shrub. You must be a brave lady, Seona, to ride... good on you.
Brent

**leopardskin** · 18th December 2009, 08:36

the boss has given ok so i will be able to ride today - my wife is from Dunfermline and i'd been telling her about these lovely Scots on the wednesday night ride - hopefully when she get her confidence up she'll be able to get on her Scorpio and meet up with Seona on another wed night ride sometime.
Darrell

**KiwiPhoenix** · 18th December 2009, 10:53

It would be great if your mrs could come along to meet everyone! Looking forward to meeting her!

**MyGSXF:Me** · 18th December 2009, 16:44

My heartfelt condolences to you & your family Seona..

You are surrounded by a lovely group of people in ChCh... lean on them hun!!

**dangerous** · 18th December 2009, 17:44

... that was farking beautafull, thanks everyone as all made it bearable. HelenOfTroy, your wee speach on behalf of Kiwibiker was lovely, and here I was thinking you were a hard old tart... Seona and Alli, the poem in their local caltic toung/translated was something else again... as the curtins closed, I could visalise the grin on Ewans face... single malts all round I say.

**cruza** · 18th December 2009, 18:36

Bit blown away when I arrived at clyde road. Bikes lined up on both sides of the road. you did ewan proud leading the escort seona

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**shrub** · 18th December 2009, 19:59

it was a fantastic celebration of Ewen.

**miSTa** · 18th December 2009, 20:16

Pleased to have met you today Seona, and after todays service we all have missed out on getting to know a real character. What might have been, a very sad loss.

Great to so many bikes out. Nice tribute too HoT.

**Emlyn** · 18th December 2009, 21:30

Awesome tributo HoT, great to have you speak on our behalf, and a wonderful turnout. What a fitting tribute to celebrate a life lost too soon. It was a pleasure to be part of today. Thanks and best wishes to all

xoxo

**Pariah** · 18th December 2009, 21:30

I'd like to thank everybody who showed up and the people who spoke kind words to Seona, Paul, my father and I. It was humbling to see only bikes in my mirrors. Thankyou all.

**Flip** · 18th December 2009, 22:05

That was a very nice funeral, It was certanly a celebration of Ewans life.

**Hey wait for me!** · 18th December 2009, 23:12

It was great to see such a great turn out of people to honour the life of Ewan and to support his lovely wife Seona and their family! Personally i got myself all prepared and spent a couple of hours spit polishing my faithful steed to leave home and make it to the first set of lights to have my trusty ride breakdown..... Well many thoughts went through my mind and some past my lips but mostly the likes of "You've got to be @#*@*# joking!" but after a call to Emoto who resqued me very quickly, i managed to sprint into the chapel fully leathered but missing my bike... ahem... anyway what a wonderful service and a great rememberance of a life that was lived to the full! No wonder he smiled all the time! Once the service finished and bikers doned leathers, i apologised to Seona that i couldn't ride with them to the next destonation as my bike had @#*#@ itself, to then have Seona say "Get on the back!" well Seona didn't have to tell me twice and if that doesn't just show what sort of person Seona or Ewan and the great bunch of other people in this community are like, then i don't know what would.

**nik_and_annie** · 19th December 2009, 06:06

Hey all,

As I said on the ABZ-bikers site, I don't have a bike, but we had great friends in Seona and Ewan - and still do!!

We thought of you here in ABZ at 14:30 our time, reading all your messages today it seems like it was a fantastic send of for a much loved friend to all of us.

Reading the messages, had us welling up here, particularly Hey_wait_for_me's story of how Seona gave him a lift from the chapel - the Christie's through and through!

Wish we could have been there, but in a way feel that we were. Any chance someone can post a couple of photos of the biker procession... Would love to see you all.

Our thoughts continue to be with you,

Nik, Annie & Finlay.

**Rashika** · 19th December 2009, 06:38

ahhhh I wondered who had jumped on the back of S's bike!

Yep it was a wonderful way to say goodbye to Ewan. Really enjoyed the ride and the service, I think it was nicely in keeping with the way Ewan lived, great job to all involved.

and i *THINK* I even managed to understand a lot of the poem without the translation Seona!