Celebrating Brian Mock

I wasn’t sure what to make of the scrawny dude rolling up to Red Rock Coffee on a 1400cc Moto Guzzi California in early October 2017. There was a chill demeanor to his aura, an unmistakable calm that I didn’t realize at the time would have a profound effect on my life.

My friend Brian Mock turns 54 today. He’s a successful machinist; he’s never known anything else and he’s at peace with this. He rarely talks about work, unless he gets a text or call from a staffer while we’re on a motorcycle adventure. Thirty years ago he bought his childhood home in Milpitas from his mother, with an attached garage lined with motorcycle posters from his teenage years.