A great-grandmother who is mad for motorcycles was granted her birthday wish to ride on the back of a Harley-Davidson – a call-back to her youth while celebrating turning 90.
Fearless Brit Barbara Morris tells the goodnewsnetwork.org she “felt 21 again” during her spin around town.
She mentioned to her family several years ago that if she made it to 90, she’d like to get back in the saddle one last time.
She was left stunned when her sons arrived recently at her nursing home with members of a local biker group. Though wearing a dress, she had no concerns about straddling the bike right there on the spot, before taking a trip with 13 other riders to a pub.
“I just felt the years melt away,” said the great-grandmother of six. “It was just an incredible experience to feel the wind blowing in my face again.”
Barbara got her first motorcycle license as a teen in the 1950s. She was about 19 and used it to get around college.
Her granddaughter said “She can’t see very well, so they had to take her right up to the bike, and when she realized what it was, her face was ‘just a picture’.
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