“Because today, you reminded us what this is really about,” he said. “Not speed. Not age.
Heart. Brotherhood. Earning your place.”
The next morning, five hundred bikers gathered for the legacy ride.
At the front, one old man on a Heritage Softail, his jacket faded with time, carrying fifty years of road stories.
They could’ve passed me. They didn’t.
And me? I still ride.
Slower now, and not as far. My knees ache when it’s cold, and I take more breaks. But every time I throw my leg over the seat, I ride for every brother I’ve lost.
For the road that shaped me. And for a brotherhood that still lives, so long as we remember what it stands for.