Livin’ The Life

Livin' The Life NC To SC & Back

NC AND SC

Another great day of riding with our Brothers and Sisters from all over NC! Finally got to meet “Hollywood” from NC 15-2.. lol it’s all about FB!

DayZ and I enjoyed the Scenic Route with stops that took us from NC to SC, back to NC, then to SC, and finally back to NC. Oh my, it had a lot curves and turns. Ramon Dang and DayZ

9/11 Memorial Ride

Robert Rankin Jr. and wife, Wendy Rankin from Monroe, NC on their 2021 Can-Am Spyder. Michael Wall

RED KNIGHTS CHAPTER 13 9/11 MEMORIAL RIDE

Amazing 9/11 Memrorial Ride today! Thank you to the Red Knights Chapter 13 for hosting this event. We met some amazing people today. It was great to have so mnay riders out honoring those who lost their lives 20 years ago on this day.

Nothin’ But Smiles

CRUISIN’ WISCONSIN

Andrea Dickinsen taking Hannah Nelson out for a ride on a very beautiful day in Eau Claire, WI.

MAINE

I would love to tell You the story of this bike. The love of my life bought this bike brand new in 2003! It’s a limited edition 2003 Deuce CVO Anniversary bike.

Long story as short as I can describe it to you...

We were on again off again and couldn’t get our act together. I moved to Florida for 3 years and we kept in touch weekly. This bike was ”Mitch’s” baby. It won many trophy’s. He kept it mint. I decided to move back to be with him. In January 2013 I came back to Maine. I was only home for a week or so. We played phone tag. He stopped at my mom’s I didn’t go outside because like a total ass I didn’t want him to see me a mess.

Livin' The Life “Destiny”

We had a blizzard and he went out to shovel his roof. He tragically fell off the roof. He lived alone. He passed away outside that day in the blizzard. His work sent the police to check on him & found him deceased. To say the least, this totally crushed me.

The bike was left to his son in his will. His son didn’t want the bike. I told his sister Carolyn to bury the bike with Mitch. His kids sold it to a family friend’s son who lived in Georgia. Seven years later and still very heart broken I decided on a November Saturday morning to go to Big Moose Harley-Davidson in Portland, Me. I walked in there (now I never shop this store in the winter) the first bike on the sales floor by the door was Mitch’s bike. I can’t tell you how my body and heart felt when I saw his bike. I had tears and went to sit on it. I asked the salesman where the bags were for it. He asked, it has saddle bags? He went out back and they were there. I knew this was his bike, I had the salesman confirm it by verifying the title. It was his bike.

This bike ended up back in Maine for some reason... why I wanted to shop at that dealer that day? I’ll never know.

I went to the credit union explained this insane but wonderful story. I was approved and the rest is history! The guys in service said the bike was suppose to be shipped out on a truck a few days earlier to another destination with 30 other bikes.

I get goose bumps and tears telling this story.

I named my bike “Destiny” and I hope you enjoyed the history, since I know he had a hand in me buying this bike!

God is good! Love & life is good!

I would like to add I can home to visit in August 2012 and spent 3 wonderful days with him on this bike. He wanted me to ride it and said I couldn’t do it. I was scared to death since I was so afraid to drop it. I added the engine guard and lowered it.

Debbie Stearns Michaud