October 22nd, 2009

Love Ride Fan Donates a Bike

When Patti Vincent heard the news that Love Ride 26 had been canceled, she was saddened. Her husband Bob loved the Love Ride. Known as “BV” to his closest friends, Bob passed away suddenly and unexpectedly this past June.

Patti has vivid memories of going on many Harley rides with Bob, but riding with Bob in several Love Rides was something very, very special to both of them.

“He always looked forward to the Love Ride,” says Vincent, who used to live in SoCal before moving to Incline Village near Lake Tahoe nine years ago. “It was his favorite ride.” Patti related that Bob’s motorcycle was brought front and center into the church at his funeral. “The Harley was his favorite thing in the world, says Vincent. “His friend fired it up and rode it out to end the ceremony.”

This week, Patti contacted Love Ride founder Oliver Shokouh and donated her husband’s 2000 Heritage Softail to the Love Ride. The motorcycle will be sold and the proceeds donated to the Love Ride Foundation.

“I was thinking of just selling it, but Bob would have loved to know that his bike was going to the Love Ride, an event that gave him so much joy,” says Vincent. “I’m donating the bike with the condition that the money be given to one of the Love Ride’s benefiairies, in Bob’s memory.”

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If you would like to donate a motorcycle or something to the Love Ride Foundation, contact Oliver Shokouh at 818-246-5618, Extension 102 or e-mail to oliver@loveride.org. Being a 501c3 charity, all donations made to the Foundation are tax deductible.

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