A company called, "Final Ride Products" decided that just because you died doesn't mean you can't ride anymore.

They offer a special urn designed to be mounted to a motorcycle. Now your cremains can enjoy the freedom of the ride practically forever as long as people are willing to pass the urn down from generation to generation.


The moto-memorial product is the creation of Steve Radz, who claims to have come up with the idea after waking up in bed...

In February 2002, Radz was working in Bosnia as a master mechanic when he woke up one day about 2 in the morning and sat up in bed. "I had the great realization," he said.

"I just saw in front of me a motorcycle tubular cremation urn. I invented the product from my mind. I drew it up on paper, and I had one made. The design hasn't changed much from the one I drew years ago."

And it doesn't have to hold ashes either. In fact Radz has a tube mounted on the forks of his Harley-Davidson containing a few of his brother's personal items: a lock of his white hair, a coin from his unit in Vietnam, a 173rd Airborne combat patch and his parachute wings. "In Memory of Monk" is inscribed on the gold cap.

Visit Final Ride Products online at:
http://www.1finalride.com

Labels: Funeral, New Products

Perhaps a social commentary in itself, Markel American Insurance Company is now offering funeral coverage as an option to their motorcycle insurance policies.

The company quotes motorcycle fatality statistics from the National National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) showing rider deaths are on the rise. They're offering funeral coverage as a way to ease the financial burden faced by surviving families.

The coverage provides up to $5,000 for funeral expenses associated with a motorcycle accident that results in the death of the named insured or resident relative while operating or occupying the insured motorcycle.

While I'm not an insurance expert, this is the first I've seen a motorcycle policy offer funeral coverage.

Read the press release.

Labels: Funeral, Motorcycle Insurance

Motorcycle Tombstone
Originally uploaded by Stelis.

"Found at a cemetery in Southern California."

So the question is, what kind of motorcycle is that? Looks like some kind of vintage Harley Davidson.

Labels: Funeral, Harley Davidson Tombstone, Photos

For the true blue biker, take your final ride with Reverend Paul Sinclair's motorcycle hearse. He will load your casket into a specially made hearse designed as a motorcyle sidecar, and deliver you safely to your final resting place.

Sinclair claims to own Britain's first and only motorcycle sidecar hearses. He is an ordained minister working from the Oasis Christian Centre in Long Eaton, Nottingham, and has served five years as an associate pastor at Kensington Temple and thirteen years as pioneer and senior pastor in Willesden, London. He can even perform the funeral service for you.

Labels: Funeral, Motorcycle Hearse