Revving their engines and pulling wheelies, friends and family mourn tragic youth who said he wanted 'die on a bike'

Revving their engines and pulling wheelies outside Manchester Crematorium, friends and family today (Monday) gathered to say farewell to Kyle Maher, who once told his family he wanted to 'die on a bike'.

The 20-year-old from Wythenshawe suffered fatal injuries when a motorbike on which he was a pillion passenger was involved in a collision with a car on Saturday afternoon on July 29.

He suffered a catalogue of serious injuries, including a broken neck, back, leg and arms and died a few days later at Salford Royal Hospital.

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Today hundreds of family and friends, many of them wearing blue t-shirts and hoodies bearing his picture, gathered for Kyle's funeral service at Manchester Crematorium.

Moments before the service began, traffic on Barlow Moor Road came to brief standstill as some of Kyle's friends who had come to the service on motorbikes revved their engines loudly and sent plumes of white smoke into the air as they span the wheels of the stationary machines.

Others pulled wheelies up and down the main road. Police were close by but did not intervene.

Kyle's white coffin was carried onto the crematorium grounds on a carriage pulled by two horses draped in the colours of his favourite football club, Manchester City. Doves were released into the sky before and a poem was read out and the coffin was carried into the building to the sound of bagpipes.

Hundreds of mourners crammed into the building while others who could not get in listened from outside as the service was relayed to them via loudspeakers.

The service was led by Rev David Gray, who told Kyle's family and others who had gathered to pay their respects: "Today we