WACO, TX : Ghost bikes placed in Waco to honor those killed in cycling accidents on Sunday, 24th January 2021

The biking community in Waco consists of hundreds of people.

In fact, the club added an additional 90 people during the pandemic.

When one of their own dies in a cycling accident, they do all they can to honor them.

“I was the only one with dry eyes,” David Morrow, the advocacy director of the Waco Bike Club reminisced when one of his peers, a Baylor student, died after being hit by a motor vehicle. “It’s very difficult for everyone to realize that their son died right there in the street.”

It’s no doubt the club rides with one another until the wheels fall off.

“Bicycling is one of the things that most people learn as a kid and it’s fun,” Morrow explained. “And you do it with your friends and it evolves from there.”

They lost one of their own this month.

66-year-old Tim Eaton, an Air Force veteran who was hit and killed by a motorist on Chapel Road in Waco.

“After this is all said and done, the family’s left here to deal with all this,” the president of the club, David Blake said. “And it’s great for the cycling community to remember a fallen cyclist.”

How do they remember him? With a recycled bicycle Morrow had lying around his house in case he was in need of spare parts.

He brought it back to life with a coat of white paint, while family and friends secured flowers of all colors and personal items on the bike.

“Unfortunately, I had a can of white paint for this purpose,” Morrow said.

It’s chain is locked to a telephone pole near the incident.


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