{"id":8118,"date":"2009-06-01T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2020-01-13T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:22:15","slug":"family-jewels-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2009\/06\/family-jewels-june-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Jewels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad, Tom Langrell Sr., rode his 1942 Harley-Davidson all over Southern Ontario to New York City and to Texas. All of these trips were accomplished between 1945-1947. When he left the home farm (Tillsonburg, Ontario) to go to Texas, with his buddy Harry Livingston on the back, his dad told him that if&nbsp;he ran out of money he wasn\u2019t to bother calling home. His dad was a hardnosed farmer, and didn\u2019t approve of motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what\u2014when they arrived in Texas they were flat broke. They both sold their leather jackets, and put the bike on the train home to Tillsonburg. He then called home, and his mother sent him some money. I was told his dad was never aware of this. Legend has it that they lived off of jellybeans for most of the journey home. The bike arrived home totally stripped, but was rebuilt and was soon back on the road.<\/p>\n<p>I can only imagine what it was like to ride a hard tail bike 2,580 km (1,600 miles). Most of the roads would have been a mix of gravel and pavement. WOW!<\/p>\n<p>I guess that explains where my passion for riding motorcycles for&nbsp;the past 42-years has come from. Unfortunately, I never got to ride beside my dad as he had the misfortune of dying from cancer at the young age of 48. One thing I do know for sure, is that he\u2019s with me on all my rides.<\/p>\n<p>From left to right on the vintage group picture, fourth over is my dad (Tom Langrell). He is on the back of his buddy, Ed Monk\u2019s bike. I still keep in touch with Ed. The group picture was taken in Paris, Ontario, but I\u2019m not sure of the year. I have the names of each rider, except one.<\/p>\n<p>The picture of my dad\u2019s bike was taken in front of his mom and dad\u2019s farmhouse. It was originally a black and white picture, and was later hand painted by Harry Livingston\u2019s sister, Shirley.<\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by Tom Langrell Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8118 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Dads-bike-coloured0002.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"229\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Dads-bike-coloured0002-229x280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/group-photo-0001.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/group-photo-0001-280x204.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad, Tom Langrell Sr., rode his 1942 Harley-Davidson all over Southern Ontario to New York City and to Texas. 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When he left the home farm (Tillsonburg, Ontario) to go to Texas, with his buddy Harry Livingston on the back, his dad told him that if&nbsp;he ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,1859],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Family Jewels - Motorcycle Mojo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2009\/06\/family-jewels-june-2009\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Family Jewels - Motorcycle Mojo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My dad, Tom Langrell Sr., rode his 1942 Harley-Davidson all over Southern Ontario to New York City and to Texas. 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