Ryan Leigh Hastings, known as Titch, was riding his beloved green Kawasaki Ninja motorbike called ‘Zoe’ when tragedy struck on August 21 at around 4.35pm
The girlfriend of a champion motorcyclist who was tragically killed in a crash said she 'knew instantly' he had died after she was unable to reach him on the phone.
“After five and a half hours of his friends not hearing from him either I went round his house and the lights were off and the dog was barking. I decided to drive around and when I got to the bypass and saw it closed off by police I knew instantly it was to do with him. Former British mini-moto champion Ryan had raced since he was a child and liked to recount how he had once beaten motorbike racer Chaz Davies in a race on the World Superbike and Moto GP star’s own track.
“Motorbikes were Ryan’s passion from since he was a child. He’d been riding them since he was a little dot and became a qualified mechanic. When he took me out on the bike he’d say: ‘You don’t need to worry, I was British champion’. “He knew his way around a bike, which is why it’s so hard not knowing what happened on the day he died,” added Chloe. “It was a day with perfect driving conditions.
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