Bikers honour 5-year-old who loved motorcycles at funeral

[Thousands of bikers showed up to drive in a 5-year-old’s funeral procession / YouTube]

A group of bikers surprised the family of Hunter Weiss, a 5-year-old boy who loved motorcycles, when they showed up to drive in his funeral procession.

Hunter’s aunt, Kara Foil, told ABC News that the idea came from the boy’s father, Cody Weiss.

After asking some of his friends in a motorcycle club to ride to honour Hunter’s love of the bikes, word of the procession spread on social media and they got a way bigger turnout than they thought they would.

“We expected maybe one hundred, two hundred bikes,” Foil told ABC News.

But what they got instead was over 2,000 bikes.

An eight-minute video shows Foil and her husband leading the procession, with Hunter’s father riding with his miniature motorcycle attached behind them. After him, comes a stream of bikers, riding to the burial grounds.

Hunter died last Monday after an accident on his grandparent’s property. Greater Salt Lake Unified Police Detective Chuck Malm told the news outlet that the 5-year-old boy was playing outside when his grandfather told him to put on his coat, as he was getting ready to leave.

The grandfather failed to see Hunter behind the vehicle as he backed up his truck, resulting in him unintentionally running him over.

Many of the bikers who rode in the procession put their bandannas on the boy’s casket to pay their respects, an amount in which Foil called “amazing.”

“We appreciate all of the respects and condolences we’ve gotten,” she said, before adding that the tribute was “unreal.”