Jaydon Tackney crammed a lot into 21 years but his death has left his family wondering what more he could have achieved.
"He had a whole life ahead of him that he's missed out on and we missed out on seeing what it was going to be like," his father Darryl said.
On November 25, he was driving his Harley-Davidson west along Brighton Rd when Linda Christine Walsh (63) pulled her car out into his path at the intersection with Viscount Rd, which she had used for 40 years.
Part of the reparation would contribute to the restoration of Jaydon Tackney's motorcycle, which his father had been repairing since the incident.
"Whenever I work on it, I feel like he's right beside me," Darryl Tackney said.
The project was still some way from completion and he had no definite plans for it once it was finished.
"I'll probably just look at it, I think. We might ride it once a year, I don't know."
Darryl Tackney sat through the entire trial, painfully reliving the final moments of his son's life as the court considered where the blame should lie.
The outcome, he said, made no difference to his outlook.
He simply wanted to remember Jaydon.
"He was my boy ... He was my sidekick, you know. A wee chip off the block," he said.
"He packed an awful lot into 21 years. He lived every moment."
Jaydon Tackney had been riding motorbikes since the age of 4 and was "a very skilled rider".
He was an apprentice refrigeration engineer but Darryl Tackney said his true passion involved vehicles.
At the time of his death, the pair had been working on a special "father-son project" — restoring a 1975 Vauxhall Viva and refitting it with a V6 engine.
They only had the electrics to complete.
In the end, Jaydon Tackney's friends stepped in and got the car running so it could be driven at his funeral.
It was a fitting tribute to a man who was always keen to help others.