Tom, that's a great story. Very unique idea about putting the ashes in the tubes and then displaying the bike at his favorite haunt (pun intended). I suspect you've given some people an creative option. Thanks for sharing.
Mark Winkelman
Dallas, Texas USA
> Stan Haley was a bike mechanic. He wrenched for nearly all the local
> Lansing shops, even though he had a couple of Graduate Degrees. He just
> loved bicycles. He spent the last 16 years of his mechanic's career
> working
> for my buddy Bill at Holt Pro Cyclery. Then Stan decided to retire. He
> had
> some good years. He got a job as a rural newspaper delivery person to
> supplement his income or as something to do, I really don't know which.
> Stan was out working on that weekend before last when he was struck by a
> car
> and killed. Besides his family, Stan left behind vintage bicycles, a huge
> collection of vintage jerseys, bike tees (some of which may come to Cirque
> with me) and bike tools. And one last and very unusual request.
>
> His beloved regular ride was a custom built 'bent. Off topic to us here,
> but very much on topic for Stan. True to Stan's wish, the thing was taken
> to my buddy's shop last Friday and Bill worked far into the night getting
> Stan's ashes into its' frame. His wish was to have his ashes installed in
> it and to have it hang over his favorite bar, where he had spent many a
> happy hour. I think they hung it yesterday.
>
> So Stranger, if your travels should take you to Beggar's Banquet, a very
> venerable and well known Bar in East Lansing, Michigan and you should
> cast
> your eyes up above the bar and see a rather exotic recumbent bike in a
> place of honor, think of old Stan, who is hanging out there, still.
>
> Tom Sanders
>
> Lansing, MI USA
>
>
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