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A plaque on Keeley Ward’s helmet tells it like it is: “Badass toys are not usually for boys.”
By Connie Adair
As shortly as she could lay upright, Keeley Ward was strapped to her father with bungee cords and a former motorcycle attempt motorist would take his daughter for a ride. Keeley would mostly tumble defunct on a behind of his motorcycle.
When she was five, he gave Ward her initial motorcycle. Since then, any of her motorcycles has been bigger and improved than a one before. The “resident biker” during Century 21 Infinity Realty in Oshawa, Ont. now participates in several gift rides any year on her 1200cc customized Harley Davidson Sportster. The bike has an orange and varicoloured paint job, has been widened to accommodate a 180 back tire (bike enthusiasts will understand, she says) and is entirely chromed out.
“I won a category during a Harley Davidson Nationals for Best Sportster in 2009 Canada-wide,” she says.
Ward was one of 3,000 motorcycle riders who took partial in this year’s Heroes Highway Ride, pushing from Belleville to Oshawa in support of Canada’s troops. Despite a pouring rain, she says it was value it – income was lifted and for a riders, “the adrenalin pumps when 3,000 bikes rev their engines.”
She also rode in a OREA Realtors Care Foundation Motorcycle Ride for Charity in July, doing a leg from Toronto to Peterborough.
“My colleagues consider it’s great. I’m a usually one in a bureau who rides,” she says. “This year’s OREA float stopped in Durham. It was sparkling for a office. Everyone was watchful outward when we pulled in.”
Clients consider it’s “pretty cool” when they find out a 5′2″ blonde rides a 460-pound motorcycle. “They find out we float in a march of us operative together or when we collect for events. Or they see my print in a office. Some are surprised, some are not,” she says. “They consider I’m assured and outgoing, a kind of chairman who would be dauntless adequate to get on a motorcycle.”
Ward has been roving for some-more than 40 years though her initial gift float was in 2007. Motorcycle Ride for Dad, that raises income to quarrel prostate cancer, is a special gift for Keeley, who mislaid her father to a disease. She recently collected $585 for a means with a assistance of her bureau and was one of 500 to 600 motorcycle riders who participated.
She enjoys a festivities that go palm in palm with a gift rides – lunches, large events during a finish of a rides, draws and luminary speakers. “It’s fun to attend in a rides. we make income for gift and we make contacts.”
Ward, creatively from Niagara, changed to Oshawa 11 years ago and got her real estate permit in Nov 2007. Her prior careers enclosed operative during a bank, an vehicle plant and as a motorcycle training instructor.
She had flipped houses and had always wanted to work in genuine estate. When she was given 9 months notice during a automotive plant, she says it was a ideal time to take classes and turn an agent. “On a day we motionless we wanted to be an agent, we picked adult a journal and an ad that said, ‘Have we ever suspicion about a career in genuine estate?’ forsaken out. we took it as a sign, and a rest is history. Real estate is a hardest pursuit I’ve ever had, though a best pursuit I’ve ever had.”
Ward sells mostly residential properties anywhere from Bowmanville to Whitby. “I have worked my boundary off and have finished good for a newer agent. I’ve won a sales endowment each year and am on lane for another this year. we charge some of (my success) to a gift events. we accommodate people and (because she rides for charity) they know it’s not all about me.”
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