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bird72 wrote on September 4, 2004 at 4:29 pm
Everybody going to the coming shows, have large fun. Prayers to Florida again. Watched The Passion Of The Christ last night, that is one incredibly powerful movie, pretty moving. Also hats off to Indian Larry.... A master mechanic, master metal fabricator, custom bike builder, daredevil, free spirit, and who seemed like one hell of a human being, a super nice guy, always smiling, who also talked about his sobriety and beating drugs and booze (ala Gregg). Larry died August 30 doing his famous standing on the seat stunt, no hands in front of a large crowd at a bike show. He was seen on the Discovery channel on a couple of bike build offs. A long hair free spirit, who I instantly liked and was intruiged with. Not like Jesse James, big razzle dazzle, or the hamming it up American Choppers family, this guy seemed so sincere and real, and you could tell he knew engines big time and didn't just buy a bunch of parts and slam them togethor. He was into the vintage chopper look, and I can relate being into vintage hot rods, new spacey is cool, but this guy did beautiful retro style. Discovery Network will replay his last build off against Billy Lane, watch for it or check their website. He believed in "Brotherhood" talked about it, and wouldn't accept winning the buildoff at Sturgis, he sawed the trophy in half, gave half to Billy, then they sawed it into pieces and gave them to the crowd. Show was on last night, you just couldn't help but love the guy. Saw him before on there on another show doing his stunt, eeegads what a wild man. Died doing what he loved I guess, a shame because the world lost an obvious genius. RIP. Here is his website: http://www.indianlarry.com He was in films and TV also, and an autobigraphy is coming out in a year or two..... RIP guy.
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