Brodie
Darksider #16 - and Proud of it !
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Bittersweet news...
My good friend Brian Bott, aka FJRONAMISSION, has graduated from off the Dot and onto the Line into eternity with our Lord.
He joined up sometime around 2008, and like many new members he asked if there were anyone in the San Jose area who wanted to go riding. We struck up a friendship and with my being somewhat new to the FJRForum also, we started attending several local gathering of forum members. We quickly learned that if a FJRForum member's name was Mike, he came from the Sacramento crowd.
I remember when Brian and his younger son Dillan rode with me to the '09 Manchester KOA gathering that Tyler and her friend Patric put on, and where Tyler had her AE moment.
We had breakfast at Alice's Restaurant in nearby Woodside up on the peninsula. It was a cold morning and we had a table outside, so he pulled one of the outdoor space heaters next to us. A few moments later we smelled some burning and realized the big parasol over the table had caught fire from the heater - oops.
He was a good rider, and a proud papa. But even with Dillon on the back of his bike he kept commenting on all the parked cars in the middle of the winding road that we were passing as we were nearing the campground.
For all you Darksiders, it was my friend Brian who came up with the Michelin Pilot Exalto which quickly became such a popular tire. He considered it part of his mission to demonstrate just how capable that piece of rubber was for our chosen platform.
Back in July of 2010 when I had my accident which took out my first FJR, it was Brian and another good friend who helped me with getting the wreck back from the salvage yard. Brian also hooked me up with an attorney friend of his who took good care of the legal issues involved. Back then I was building Grounding Harnesses, and Brian with his two sons helped me keep up with the demand.
A few years passed and he was compelled by DMV to change his riding style a bit. HE sold his beloved FJR and bought a Road King. He also got back into dirt bike riding and enjoyed watching his kids fall in love with it too. Alas, with the sale of his FJR he kind of faded into the background on this forum, people come and people go.
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Late 2015 a cancerous mass was discovered in his left knee, and he went under the knife several times to have it removed. It got to the point of taking the limb to save his life, and he had to adjust to a life of walking with an artificial leg. Of course, with the aggressive cancer comes equally aggressive treatments which took a toll. The last time I saw him was in a hospital bed several months back. One thing my friend was was a fighter. He was on top of his medical team, and keeping the staff straight and on target with his treatments.
The other thing about my friend was he was terribly in love with his very best friend and wife Susan, and his two sons, Dakota and Dylan. Dakota became a Marine last year, which made his dad proud!
He graduated this past Sunday.
Brian was in the hospital for 19 days, and he was heavily sedated during the entire time. As always, the doctors were amazed at how he fought to keep going, against enormous odds. He passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 7 at 7:05 p.m., surrounded by family and friends. A Celebration of Life will be held in his honor on Saturday, May 27 at 2:00 p.m.
God Speed my friend.
Brodie
My good friend Brian Bott, aka FJRONAMISSION, has graduated from off the Dot and onto the Line into eternity with our Lord.
He joined up sometime around 2008, and like many new members he asked if there were anyone in the San Jose area who wanted to go riding. We struck up a friendship and with my being somewhat new to the FJRForum also, we started attending several local gathering of forum members. We quickly learned that if a FJRForum member's name was Mike, he came from the Sacramento crowd.
I remember when Brian and his younger son Dillan rode with me to the '09 Manchester KOA gathering that Tyler and her friend Patric put on, and where Tyler had her AE moment.
We had breakfast at Alice's Restaurant in nearby Woodside up on the peninsula. It was a cold morning and we had a table outside, so he pulled one of the outdoor space heaters next to us. A few moments later we smelled some burning and realized the big parasol over the table had caught fire from the heater - oops.
He was a good rider, and a proud papa. But even with Dillon on the back of his bike he kept commenting on all the parked cars in the middle of the winding road that we were passing as we were nearing the campground.
For all you Darksiders, it was my friend Brian who came up with the Michelin Pilot Exalto which quickly became such a popular tire. He considered it part of his mission to demonstrate just how capable that piece of rubber was for our chosen platform.
Back in July of 2010 when I had my accident which took out my first FJR, it was Brian and another good friend who helped me with getting the wreck back from the salvage yard. Brian also hooked me up with an attorney friend of his who took good care of the legal issues involved. Back then I was building Grounding Harnesses, and Brian with his two sons helped me keep up with the demand.
A few years passed and he was compelled by DMV to change his riding style a bit. HE sold his beloved FJR and bought a Road King. He also got back into dirt bike riding and enjoyed watching his kids fall in love with it too. Alas, with the sale of his FJR he kind of faded into the background on this forum, people come and people go.
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Late 2015 a cancerous mass was discovered in his left knee, and he went under the knife several times to have it removed. It got to the point of taking the limb to save his life, and he had to adjust to a life of walking with an artificial leg. Of course, with the aggressive cancer comes equally aggressive treatments which took a toll. The last time I saw him was in a hospital bed several months back. One thing my friend was was a fighter. He was on top of his medical team, and keeping the staff straight and on target with his treatments.
The other thing about my friend was he was terribly in love with his very best friend and wife Susan, and his two sons, Dakota and Dylan. Dakota became a Marine last year, which made his dad proud!
He graduated this past Sunday.
Brian was in the hospital for 19 days, and he was heavily sedated during the entire time. As always, the doctors were amazed at how he fought to keep going, against enormous odds. He passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 7 at 7:05 p.m., surrounded by family and friends. A Celebration of Life will be held in his honor on Saturday, May 27 at 2:00 p.m.
God Speed my friend.
Brodie
