From the day he was born Laurence was destined to be a motorcycle rider!

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His dad has told the stories of him tearing around, being a pro at riding a bicycle, sitting him on the tank of his motorbike. If he ever found himself looking for his crash helmet and gloves, all he had to do was look outside because without fail Laurence would have them on riding around on his pushbike.

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This enthusiasm only increased with age and Laurence, who had had a lot of sadness when he lost his mother when he was aged 15, ended up passing his CBT first time.

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It will come without a shock that he already had his AR50 50 cc moped and took great pleasure in showing off his first set of engine powered two wheels.

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Laurence was always tinkering, if not with the AR then with his friend’s bikes and very quickly became the go to guy if your bike broke down!

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As time went on Laurence became bored of the AR, and he went through a range of different 50's and 125's until he became old enough to get that glamorous pink licence and his prized 400CC CBR!

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Eventually, Laurence literally outgrew this bike like all the others before it and it was time to step up again, this time to the much drooled over 600CC ZX6R (in yellow and black) that he bought off his father.

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Laurence would literally spend days riding around on ‘BEE’ (as his bike became nicknamed) with his black and blue two piece leathers, and prized Arai helmet (that no-one could touch!) if he wasn’t on the road then he was on the FZR track bike that he spent days fixing up.

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Then his girlfriend Jen came in and brought him back to reality from his bike filled world, he got himself a job and saved up to go to college to study.......Motorcycle Mechanics! And in September of 2011 Laurence enrolled at Northbrook college.

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His days and nights and probably dreams were now filled with his true love, motorbikes!!!

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And this is how life went, near perfect, until the 7th of February, when riding home on his bike, after distributing CV’s to get an apprenticeship at a motorcycle garage, he and Jen were hit by a bus and Laurence, this wonderful, loveable, carefree, laid back, loving, caring, selfless boy with so much to give to the world, was taken from us.

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And a very big light, in everyone’s lives that knew him, went out.

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