R.I.P Young Alex 12th July 1988 - 18th April 2007 Page 3

The Funeral

On the 1st May 2007, Young Alex was laid to rest in the New Bradwell Cemetery.
The funeral cortege gathered at The Plough, the Barrel Bikers home pub, that Alex had helped to refurbish, when another club member took over the lease last year.
Over 250 bikes gathered to follow the hearse, representatives of many clubs and organisations, along with loads of individuals, turned up to say farewell to this likeable teenager.
The trike hearse, got caught in traffic on it's way to the pub, so Alex was running on Barrel Bikers Time to the end.
The escort in front of the hearse, consisted of three Barrel Bikers bikes and two bikes and a trike representing two other local clubs, BTW (Brotherhood of the Third Wheel) & Havoc Mcc.
The procession took several minutes to form up behind the hearse, and was so long that extra marshals were needed to cope with the full length of the column of bikes are cars through the Milton Keynes roundabout system.
Special thanks to Ogri Mcc, National Chopper Club (NCC) members and everyone else that helped out with the marshalling.
After the burial, everybody went back to The Plough for a free drink and some food (paid for by one of our Barrel Bikers members, thankyou!), and another Barrel member got his band together to perform an impromptu gig in memory of Alex in the evening.
A collection that afternoon and the evening raised £1750 for the David Cooper Memorial Run, a charity run that Alex enthusiastically took part in.

Ride Free Alex!

Mole
May 2007