Keihachi Ishikawa loves to ride along the abandoned E&N Railway line on Vancouver Island. The 78-year-old even made a special rig for his bike to do it.

“There’s a lot of fun, you know, like nobody on the track and nice and quiet, you know, you can see the birds and the rabbits and you know there’s lot of wild animals right out there,” he told Global News.

However, on Aug. 2, when he was returning to his home and turning left on Departure Bay Road, he said three people on motorcycles were behind him and he felt someone shove him on his shoulder.

“Guy yelled at me, ‘Get off the F road’ and then push me so hard,” Ishikawa said.

“So that’s what had happened. I stayed on the right-hand side of the road all the way down to that point and then crossed the Departure Way Road in order to turn

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