Kwixdraw Memorial Thread - Post your stories / Photos
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 4:14 pm
Hi Guys!
It has been a while and a few thousand miles since I have been on here. I was just informed on Tuesday that Bob Fitch (Kwixdraw) passed at 10:45pm from an illness with his heart.
I became a member of NGW club in 2008. I purchased my first motorcycle then and it was an 1983 out in Tyler, Tx. I joined this forum for help building the bike and getting it running. Bob was quick to reach out and introduce himself as a fellow Texan. He told me of the 2009 Deadwood rally and we made plans to make it. He had a 1979 at the time he had been riding around. A week before the rally, he purchased a 1983 as well, the Blue Goose, and it was untested, but we stayed up late the nights leading up to it going over the bike, drinking too many beers, and smoking too many cigars.
The trip my my first out of state cross country trip. We made good time and almost did an iron butt twice. I remember being in Kansas at 1am and almost out of gas. Surrounded by corn fields and darkness, we met the one police officer in an otherwise abandoned town with not a soul in sight. Bob working his usual charm told the officer our story and he filled us up in the Depot and got is on our way. It would not be until Mullen Nebraska his bike broke down for good halting our trip. After working in with the local mechanic and having his bike torn down to the motor, Bob sent me on my way to make the last day of the rally and him back home to get his van and trailer. He set me up with his GPS and some words of encouragement a man my age needed and I made my first solo trip on a recently rebuilt and untested bike. Bob was a man that would give you the shirt off of his back and was the embodiment of "Big Tex". Bob was a man of honor and trusting of people. Bob took me under his wing and was a dear mentor and friend that instilled the values of a motorcyclist that I carry with me today. You will be missed my friend.
Memorial services will be held in Euless, TX on May 28th.
It has been a while and a few thousand miles since I have been on here. I was just informed on Tuesday that Bob Fitch (Kwixdraw) passed at 10:45pm from an illness with his heart.
I became a member of NGW club in 2008. I purchased my first motorcycle then and it was an 1983 out in Tyler, Tx. I joined this forum for help building the bike and getting it running. Bob was quick to reach out and introduce himself as a fellow Texan. He told me of the 2009 Deadwood rally and we made plans to make it. He had a 1979 at the time he had been riding around. A week before the rally, he purchased a 1983 as well, the Blue Goose, and it was untested, but we stayed up late the nights leading up to it going over the bike, drinking too many beers, and smoking too many cigars.
The trip my my first out of state cross country trip. We made good time and almost did an iron butt twice. I remember being in Kansas at 1am and almost out of gas. Surrounded by corn fields and darkness, we met the one police officer in an otherwise abandoned town with not a soul in sight. Bob working his usual charm told the officer our story and he filled us up in the Depot and got is on our way. It would not be until Mullen Nebraska his bike broke down for good halting our trip. After working in with the local mechanic and having his bike torn down to the motor, Bob sent me on my way to make the last day of the rally and him back home to get his van and trailer. He set me up with his GPS and some words of encouragement a man my age needed and I made my first solo trip on a recently rebuilt and untested bike. Bob was a man that would give you the shirt off of his back and was the embodiment of "Big Tex". Bob was a man of honor and trusting of people. Bob took me under his wing and was a dear mentor and friend that instilled the values of a motorcyclist that I carry with me today. You will be missed my friend.
Memorial services will be held in Euless, TX on May 28th.
