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What do you do when the life you’ve known for the previous 16 yrs as a service member of the United States Army comes to a halt because of a medical condition? Well, if you are Jared Weems of Weems Motor Co. you’ll eventually build a motorcycle, raffle it off and give all the proceeds to a Charity. Meet Jared Weems and this is his story.
Before we tell you all about the amazing machine you see here, we need to fill you in on the man behind the machine. Jared Weems was bitten by the ‘Triumph Bug’ at the early age of 7 years old when he and his brother started helping out their Father working on the families 1949 Triumph and he hasn’t stopped riding them and rebuilding them since. In 2003 Jared enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve his country, and less than a year later he was deployed to Iraq. Upon leaving for his first of several deployments, Jared told his Father that ‘if’ he returned, he wanted to start rebuilding another Triumph. When he returned, his Father had a 1972 Triumph waiting for him as a welcome home present. The Triumph brand runs deep in the soul of all the Weems men. Check that, ‘God’, ‘Family’, Country and ‘Triumph’ are what fuels the fire within the soul of Jared Weems and his family.
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In 2014, U.S. Army Parachute Rigger Jared Weems was diagnosed with a Brain Tumor. Life as he knew it was about to change dramatically. Two years later, as he was going through the treatment process for his tumor, he had his first seizure. The following onset of seizures led to an early medical retirement after 16 years of service. Not knowing what the future held, he sold his Triumphs and focused on his health and family
Nearly a year had passed when a close friend gave him a two-page David Mann painting that was featured in the center of the July 1983 edition of Iron Horse Magazine. The significance of the painting, called ‘Dog Gone Hot Dogs’, featured a rainbow-colored Triumph Chopper. As Jared focused on his recovery for a few more years, his health conditions seemed to have reached a plateau and his seizures were becoming less and less frequent, the ‘motivation’ to wrench on a Triumph again was starting to slowly work its way back into his system. Cut to November 2019 and Born Free organizer Mike Davis announces a ‘Pre-Unit’ Triumph Build Class for Born Free 2020.
