Malcolm Tibby

Malcolm Tibby

Washing my Dragstar XVS650
Washing machines last longer with Calgon

Malcolm Tibby now Living up near Liverpool

NicknameMr Powder
StatusFull Member
E-mailmaltibby@hotmail.co.uk
ResidenceI lived in the heyday of the club in South Harrow
I now live in the Wirral, Merseyside
Family    Married to Di for 20 years (19/8/1989), now divorced (7/9/2009)

Children are:

Stewart (dob 5/90)

Nicola (dob 10/93)

Darren (stepson?) (dob 11/85) 
Bike I would be remembered for  -
  
Harley Davidson Sportster. (Brother of Pippin, please note:)

Painted in Mother-of-pearl, not white! Bloody WHITE???
(That’s the second Harley I had, the WideGlide….)
  
Favourite bike? Worst bike? Hmmm…. My bikes?….hmmm…. All of them!!! They all had good and bad points!  

Favourite borrowed bike, easy!!! Suzuki RV125! Reason?
It was a lot of fun! Borrowed it from a friend for a fortnight,
I smiled from ear to ear, what a laugh!!! 

(if you can’t pictured RV125, see Robbie Williams ‘Angels’ Video.
RW riding a RV125 on the beach with the helicopter flying overhead….)
What do I ride/drive now? 
A Vauxhall Car!

I have passed a driving assessment with left-foot
accelerate pedal and infra-red secondary wireless hand control.

The reason for the infra-red hand control is my right arm is f**ked up
so I drive with left hand only with a steering ball and infra-red keyboard. See  http://www.lodgesons.co.uk/downloads/downloads.aspx and do the demo!

Now I'm saving the pennies for the pedal and hand control... 10 years to go... lol!!!!
   
My memories of the clubMy memories of the Freedom Riders are vast!

Two memories are:
 

Pippin and I, un-sober, 11.30 at night, riding his Ducati 450
over the cliff path from Beesands to Hallsands.

Fuses blew several times, perhaps because we fell off several times….
I’ve never been so glad to reach the beach…..
 

My favourite memory is the first year I visited Devon.

After the Cricket, in Beesands, had closed for the night, we went to
Old Hallsands on the bikes. Rebel lit a flaming torch and we walked down to the ruins.

Chilling in old ‘cottage’ (only one that had 4 walls, no roof, no windows, no door!).
Beer in one hand, joint in the other, Paul’s cassette recorder playing God only knows what,
seeing millions of stars overhead while listening to the sea crashing below…..

God, I can still see and hear it now…..
Summary of my life to date
  
Brief resume of my life to date? Hmmm…. Born, married, two wonderful children, divorced.

Heart attack one month before my 40th birthday in 2000, stroke December 2005.
The stroke affected my right side, arm and leg, and the brain damage on the left side.

 In the beginning, in hospital, I could only say ‘yep’…. Drink? Yep. Tea or coffee or hot chocolate?

Yep. Tea then? Yep… And that’s only the drinks, food is another story…..!!

Now, my speech has improved lots, I have learnt to sign my ‘signature’ with my left hand
(not my pre-stroke signature….), 

I walk about 1000 yards a day with no walking stick and improving every week...ish... lol
  
My hobbies today areMy hobbies today are:

Riding bikes! Rallies! Driving lorries! Watching QPR! Driving cars! Music!

2 of 6 will do.... Watching television of QPR and music! Oh well....  
At my funeral please arrange to have the following played Pre-stroke is easy: Ian Hunter-The Outsider, Bon Jovi- It’s My Life a
nd one of either: Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
or Guns’n’roses- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door…..
 

But now, because I’ve been thinking about my life since the stroke,
 I’ve change all of them! But what? AC/DC- Ride On? Aerosmith- Livin’ On The Edge?
Andrew WK- Party Hard? My Chemical Romance- I’m Not Okay (I Promise)?
Ian Hunter- Junkman/Michael Picasso/Shades Off/Boy/Silver Needles/ Saturday Gigs/ Dead Man Walkin'
or lots of Ian Hunter songs? Don Henley- The Boys Of Summer?  Roxette- Harleys & Indians?
Thin Lizzy- The Boys Are Back In Town? Whitesnake-Here I Go Again?
Kevin ‘Bloody’ Wilson- D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F?
Monty Python- Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life/I'm So Worried? Etc, etc, etc….

Decisions, decisions, decisions!!!
 

Right!!  First track I’d wish to have played is also the same tune that I had played at my mum’s funeral.
 
Enigma- Return to Innocence.

AC/DC- Ride On

Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb 


Bury or cremated? Cremated and have my ashes scattered on Old Hallsands (if possible).
See Malcolm's picture gallery

The Freedom Riders MCC of Hayes and Ruislip

This is the Freedom Riders MCC web site.

The Freedom Riders MCC has long been disbanded, however the camaraderie and humour lives on, hopefully this web site will reunite former members and help keep those still "in the fold" keep in touch.
 
We have a reunion every year in, of all places, South Devon but that was where the club "went on holiday" each year and over time many members have left west London so the location of the meet up each year really does not matter. Four members actually now live in Devon, others have moved as far away as Canada. 

The site is just a bit of stupid fun really, rather like being in the club was........a bit of stupid fun.

Feel free to also contribute any "views" yourself by e-mailing me.