Memories

[RebelRouser]

I Would Like To Collect Memories... Personal Memories Or Thoughts Of Cookie, Some Thing To Send Him And Something To Remember Him By.... I Need All Your Help To Work On The Inevitable... Thank You...

[RebelRouser]

My Memory Of Cookie

Two Fold, Finding Out He's In San Mateo And Worked For SamTrans... I Grew Up In San Mateo, Elementary School Through High School And Rode SamTrans Every Day To And From School, Did My Fair Bit Of Vandalism Too... But The Was The Child In Me

And Sending Him To See Doug In San Mateo To Learn From One Of The Best Motorcycle Mechanics In The Entire Bay Area...

There Is Always The Greetings To All The New Members...


These Things Will Forever Go With Me....

[Brant]

He holds the record for the largest single purchase of hats in NGW hat history.......seven...and a couple were PINK !!

[Graham Cracker]

That 10,000th post to the forums was incredible...true dedication

[Placerville]

When I joined the NGW, Cookie was the first to welcome me and share his thoughts about my newly purchased '76. He PM'd me pic's of his, talked about his family etc., and on several occasions helped me with newbie questions. All good advice and he never made me feel like I was a bother. A real brother and a good soul. If NGW had a 'face', it would be Cookie.

[Old Fogey]

He and I have a very similar sense of humour, I think. I really liked some of the posted slight digs at folk, always done in a gentle and funny way.
He also understands and appreciates my humour; not something that I find is universal , coming from a different country, culture and with some language differences. That makes him special to me.

[skydog]

Everytime I look at the saddlebag mounts on Bluestreak,I'll think of ya bud!

[rcmatt007]

hey cookie... you always get my jokes!

Never knew there was anyone as much of a sicko as me

[vapor_trail]

Cookie was the first guy I've encountered who is as foolish and obsessive with sailboats as he is with motorcycles. I felt a great companionable trust from that discovery. No doubt there are others here who 'do' sailboats also --- I haven't encountered that person yet.

[1CrazyMoFo]

That's the way the Cookie crumbles....<Sorry!!! sniff-wiping eyes>
It's going on 5 years since I stepped into these forums, and Cookie was one of the first people I met. NGW is kind of funny, you come for the bikes, but the people become part of your life and wither it was weather, bikes, pretty girls, Cookie always had something to say or something going on.

I think I liked his Chang errands the best, just an old fart running around town on a Saturday morning. We all do it, need paint, light switch, something for a honey do.....but with Cookie some how these little trips turned into epic adventures!!! The way Cookie explained it, women can not control themselves when they see a red Chang and apparently this little motorcycle some how made him the sexyist man alive!!! Good times.

Cookies personality showed when wrote, and I was lucky enough to met Cookie and Christine when they came to Eugene for the Olympic track trials.....he was the same person on the computer screen as off. A true gentleman, and just an all around nice guy. We met at my favorite watering hole and shot the breeze shortly...I wish I had more time, but it was a thrill to finally met him. In fact, I was warming the same bar stool a couple of days ago, thinking bout Cookie. We hooked up at the shop the next day for a quickie tour and Cookie and Christine were headed back to Cali. Very, very busy people for sure.

It's hard, to think about Christmas, I always new it was official when Cookies train pics and vids showed up. This Cookie threads twisted every which way....we talked of family, jobs, toys, the past and WIVES!! Or as Cookie put it, "She that must be pleased." I still use this term and see it pop up on the board everynow and then.

Well, Cookie what can I say, it's been a blast, I've never been good at goodbyes. So C'ya, love you, and I'll buy the first round if we ever met again!
The world in general has lost one hell of a nice guy.
Peace,
Frank

[rogue1000]

Frank said it well..The world lost one hellava nice guy...picking up his last LTD, we rode together for about ten hours, getting to know each other (with the NGW Forum as a background), telling stories; that was the shortest ride I've ever had...then one beer at about midnight and we both collapse like a couple of old guys, me on his couch, him back in the bedroom..meeting Christine about five minutes later as she cheerfully said, "This is the time we get up around here"... We unloaded the LTD with Spencers help and one of his high school buddies, I took the shop tour, then Cookie took us to breakfast at a pretty nice place before I headed back to SLO, a tidy little adventure with a new friend under my belt.

[heraldhamster]

I'm just sorry I never got to meet him as we had planned on my Seattle-to-Albuquerque-sidecar-delivery adventure. he had offered me a "place to crash" when I got that close, and I must admit I was going to swerve off track a little just to get to go see him.

[1CrazyMoFo]

Ya, that was a long time running joke...."still waiting for Hamster"

[starket]

Ya, that was a long time running joke...."still waiting for Hamster"

Frank, Thanks for putting a smile on my face.

[STREETWING78]

Cookie, The second to welcome me and THE FIRST TO CORRECT ME !!
I really wasn't yellin' just excited to be here because of people like

COOKIE !!!

Frank said it well;

Sorry we never met even though I felt we had.

Christine, All my prayers for you and your family.

SOME DAY MAYBE WE SHALL MEET...

Ride in peace...