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  • #1

    "Pathfinder" Please Remember

    Wow, it will be a year on Sunday, July 22nd that I lost David. Seems like yesterday, I still expect him to walk through the door at any time and everytime I open my garage door, I can see him either asleep in the recliner or working on his bike. I was just looking at some of David's old post and laughing, I hope you guys never take those away. I have the book that Greg (Skippy) made for me and I wouldn't take anything in the world for that.

    Everytime I get on here and I see a post by "Planedick" and I see "Pathfinder" Loving restored by Dave Delzell at the end of his post, it makes my heart feel so good and it would just tickle the hell out of David. He loved that bike so much.

    Please keep David in your hearts and look up in the sky on Sunday morning and say hi and a prayer, just to let him know that he will never be forgotten.

    Love to you all, Cynthia
    Cynthia Delzell
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    Still riding...

    I think Dave still rides because there is certainly an angel with me sometimes. There has been a couple of times when I know I was "saved" from a big crash. He probably don't want anything to happen to "his baby" so I'm protected too. I hope I don't scare him too badly. Everywhere I go I get compliments about Pathfinder. Those who don't know are really blown away when they find it's 30 yrs old. Those that remember these things are equally impressed.

    Last edited by planedick; 07-21-2007, 07:56 AM.
    You can't stay young forever, but you can be immature for the rest of your life...

    '78E "Pathfinder" Show bike...
    Lovingly restored by Dave Delzell
    Drilled airbox
    Tkat fork brace
    Hardly mufflers
    late model carbs
    Newer style fuses
    Oil pressure guage
    Custom security system
    Stainless braid brake lines

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    • #3
      You are probably right Dick, he doesn't want anything to happen to that bike.. I know I carry him with me a lot of times..and it seems like everytime I get really low, I come in contact with the SUV that is a Pathfinder and I always laugh and know that David is near...Thanks for sending the picture...And Adriana has the license plate that you sent her in a frame and in her bedroom...Tell Aurora and the kiddos hello for us....big hugs and kisses to you all...love, Cindy
      Cynthia Delzell

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      • #4
        I know I'm new here...

        But already I'm touched by these posts. I love the brotherhood that a special item or common ground can create. I'm not only into my 11 more every day, I'm also a volunteer firefighter and published writer. I've applied to join the Red Knights MC local chapter here in Perry NY. It's all firefighters riding for a cause.

        I didn't know Dave, but my thoughts are with you.
        "Rat Rod"
        79 XS1100 Standard
        87 VMAX cans
        Cheap Japanese Tires
        Cobalt Blue Rattle Can Paint
        Custom Lighting on a Budget

        Perry Center Fire Department
        Perry Emergency Ambulance

        "If we don't do it, who will?"


        Some people have one of those days, I have one of those lives...

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        • #5
          Hammerhead1st, Wow New York....Never been there...Thank you for your thoughts, David was a wonderful person, one of those kind of people that you just never forget...Going tomorrow to put flowers out, although he wasn't into frilly things but gonna do it anyway!!

          Man I wouldn't want your job but I sure do respect the work that you guys do and here's to The New York Firefighters!! Thank you again for your reply and your thoughts. Cindy
          Cynthia Delzell

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          • #6
            Heh heh heh...

            Cindy...

            Not a NYC firefighter but thank you...just a volunteer in one of those small "Good-ol-boys" departments in farm country south east of Buffalo. If you ever get a chance, take a ride in rural NYS, either western NY with it's farms and meadows or upstate in the Adirondacks where the snow stays on the peaks all summer long! Route 2 or Route 3 are absolutely breathtaking rides.
            "Rat Rod"
            79 XS1100 Standard
            87 VMAX cans
            Cheap Japanese Tires
            Cobalt Blue Rattle Can Paint
            Custom Lighting on a Budget

            Perry Center Fire Department
            Perry Emergency Ambulance

            "If we don't do it, who will?"


            Some people have one of those days, I have one of those lives...

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            • #7
              Re: Still riding...

              Originally posted by planedick
              I think Dave still rides because there is certainly an angel with me sometimes. There has been a couple of times when I know I was "saved" from a big crash. He probably don't want anything to happen to "his baby" so I'm protected too. I hope I don't scare him too badly. Everywhere I go I get compliments about Pathfinder. Those who don't know are really blown away when they find it's 30 yrs old. Those that remember these things are equally impressed.
              WOW havent seen the bike in a while, but she looks like she is in good hands, I like the king queen seat and the bags, bike looks happy,
              Just a thought, the gold stripes were going to be put back like the bike came from the factory, not sure if you like them but it did give it some character

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              • #8
                Much use...

                Pathfinder gets lots of time on the road and almost equal time with maintenance and cleaning. I love to ride and I love Pathfinder at least as much as Dave did. Right now I'm looking to change the headers to get back to the original chrome. I think I have that problem taken care of and a fresh engine to run in it for a year or two while I bore out the engine to 1196 and rebuild it.
                You can't stay young forever, but you can be immature for the rest of your life...

                '78E "Pathfinder" Show bike...
                Lovingly restored by Dave Delzell
                Drilled airbox
                Tkat fork brace
                Hardly mufflers
                late model carbs
                Newer style fuses
                Oil pressure guage
                Custom security system
                Stainless braid brake lines

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                • #9
                  Dave would have loved to see the chrome pipes on the bike,there was always an eye out for a good set, in fact when I was working out of town I would stop in at bone yards and look for a set, we had even talked about sending the ones on the bike out to be chromed,

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