R.I.P. Young Alex:
12th July, 1988 - 18th April, 2007
The Man:
Alex was a really great lad, training to be a chef, his ambition was to own his own restaurant one day.
He had been an enthusiastic helper at Barrel events, coming along with his Mum & Dad since he was 13 years old.
When he was 16, he passed his CBT and put in a club membership form. The other club members had so much respect for Alex, that for the first time in club history he was voted into the club straight away, becoming the youngest ever person in Barrel history to become a Full Club Member.
Alex was a real character in the club, he was up for anything and would often take part in Rally Games etc, and loved to party and dance with the ladies in Rally Marquees.
He would always go out of his way to help friends out; he once rode his 50cc bike from Luton to Milton Keynes, to show a friend how to make scrambled egg!
If he knew anybody was working on a bike, he would be there to help and learn from those with more experience.
In short, everybody that knew Alex well, talked of him as a friend, and he loved to make new friends.
His enthusiasm for the David Cooper and Jumbo Runs, was typical Alex, always willing to help anybody he could.
He died while helping a friend, an epitaph for any man to be proud of.
Mole, May 2007
The Accident:
At approximately 5.30pm on the 18th April 2007, 18 year old Barrel Bikers Mcc member, Alex Titterington, Young Alex, was giving a friend a lift home on his restricted Bandit 600.
A car stopped at a T-Junction to wait for a gap in the traffic before turning right onto the busy single carraigeway road.
Alex was riding below the speed limit, with his headlamp on, in a good position on the road, riding as he had trained to do. The car then accelerated straight into the side of Alex's bike, killing him instantly and severely injuring Jojo, his female pillion passenger.
A biker and his wife driving past in his car stopped and tried to do what they could; the paramedics that arrived within minutes couldn't do anything for Alex, but did an amazing job looking after Jojo, who is now out of hospital after the first of many major surgical operations on her knee and her elbow.
The Police later informed Alex's family that he didn't even have a chance to react to the situation, not even a chance to apply the brakes; the car driver was arrested on the spot for causing death by dangerous driving.
The police action and the court hearings will take most of the rest of the year.
Flowers marked the accident site within hours.
Mole, May 2007
