Hey guys, this happened the other morning, his body wasnt found until 15 hours after his bike was located but go here for some of the story
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/02/23/23motorcyclist.html?COXnetJSessionIDbuild14=B4MyFp nJhR94J5hp2LXj8jvsDDKN7CCG3fSlHgKg42H1nVfqfqBS!-690938167&UrAuth=%60NcNUOaNVUbTTUWUXUVUZTZUTUW U]U_UZU\U[UcTYWVVZV&urcm=y

 

Can you cut & paste the article... wants you to register before you can read it.

 

This is what i got from it

Stepson remembers motorcyclist as avid biker
Man found dead in wooded area under MoPac Boulevard flyover.


AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Jimmy Erwin usually left from his North Austin home most mornings between 1 and 2 a.m., either in his red pickup or on his 1998 Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide motorcycle.
He had just gotten his bike up and running, his son said today, and had taken it for a ride to Elgin on Tuesday. Convinced it was working well, he rode it to work Wednesday morning.

[/align][/align]In an unusual accident, Erwin's motorcycle was found around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday when police received a report of an abandoned motorcycle on the flyover connecting southbound U.S. 183 to southbound MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1). A transient found Erwin's body in a wooded area around 6 p.m. Wednesday, about 1,500 feet away from where the bike was found, according to Erwin's stepson, Christian Holton.
Holton says he suspects that Erwin, 58, lost control of his motorcycle on the freeway, his bike hit the side of the flyover and Erwin fell 50 feet to his death.
"It's still too early to tell," Holton said. "None of us want to believe that he lost control of the bike. He's wrecked motorcycles before, so he knew that when you hit gravel, you kind of stay low and roll with the punches."
Holton said that Erwin and his wife of almost 20 years, Melissa, had moved to Austin from Phoenix in February 2005.
Erwin worked as a truck driver for a Buda-based concrete supplier and loved to watch the History Channel or drag racing in his spare time. He loved motorcycle riding so much that he dreamed of going to the annual Sturgis rally, a big motorcycle rally held every year in South Dakota. Holton said his stepfather was talkative and affectionate .
"He was just an incredible guy and a great dad," Holton said. After his mother's first marriage ended when Holton was 12, he said, he remembers meeting Erwin and thinking he was "a really gruff guy" until they had a pivotal moment.
"I remember asking him if I could call him Dad and that was one of the few times I saw him cry — this 6-4 biker, with muscular arms and tattoos."
Holton also said that his stepfather had just begun to wear a motorcycle helmet since he had moved to Austin — after years of vowing not to.
Police ask that anyone with information call the vehicular homicide unit at 974-4724.

 

REGISTER with FAKE info! it doesn't check or anything...

 

BAh thats to much work.. Sad story though

 

Yeah there was a incident around here a few years back on a weekendwherethis guy left a bar on his bike and apparenly went down a closed road and ran into a box culvert at a high rate of speed. No one found him for like32 hours or something, the crew found him onMonday morning.

 

Yeah that would suck. It's another reminder to all of us still riding how easy it would be to end up in a body bag, leaving your wife and children behind. Ride safe, life is to valueble to throw it away.

 

As for the story of the guy leaving the bar... Don't drink and ride too. We had a guy on a harley go the wrong way down the interstate and hit an oncoming car head on. What really sucked was the guy had three kids and a wife. He was intoxicated and had other drugs in his system. And just to make it worse for his wife.. his girlfriend was on the back. She died also. It seems like alot of stuff like that happens on cruiser bikes. But accidents happen to anyone.

 

Suck is an understatment! I would hope to die right away then to lay there in pain and pray that some one would find me.

 

wow...sucks....i dont get why the guy vowed not to ever wear a helmet until recently? kinda is hypocritical to critisize someone after death, but was he too badass it sounds like? maybe takes away from the classic harley image...?