Rest In Peace John, Crystaljohn

RickyX · Apr 28, 2022

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Sent from Stuart (Torquepen) today:-

I’ve had the pleasure of riding with John over the last few years and I’m missing the old bugger already. It’s beginning to warm up out there now and the better weather would always tempt John back into his leathers and onto his bike.
I miss his observations on life, his advice on motorcycling and of course, his amazing stories about his escapades in India.
But one thing I won’t miss is cleaning up after him at various grub stops!

I remember John once telling me of being ‘over the moon’ after he’d managed to blag his way into an automotive event on the cheap - only to find out later that the gateman had given him a pensioners ticket!

Like myself, John was an Electrician and he was well known to be rather careful with his money. There’s an old saying that copper wire was invented by two men fighting over a Penny. I have long suspected that one of those men was John.

Over the last few years we’d taken to exploring alternative routes to Loomies and had often rode the Meon Valley on our way over there. Last year we went beyond the Moto Café to Alresford in search of (would you believe) a Crop Circle!
Well, we eventually found it, parked up and made our way out into the golden corn.
John was a free thinker and open minded where things mystical were concerned and so, almost without words, we decided there and then to try and ‘tune in’ to this thing we were standing in.
Imagine our surprise when almost instantly, we were subjected to a weird and strange buzzing noise. Open mouthed, I looked over at John and he glanced back, surprise written all over his face. My God, I thought, something’s happening!
But then, all of a sudden, the strange noise stopped abruptly with a ‘thud’ and a hapless, geeky looking chap bedecked with a controller, approached John from behind saying, “Did you happen see where my Drone came down?”.
John and I had a few chuckles over that one!

Rest in peace, Crystal John.

Stuart

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Beautiful words Stu. That was John to a tee. RIP.

outintheopen · Apr 28, 2022

Just looking at our last texts, you could only love his humour

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