Nancy and I received a call from another racer as we drove across North Dakota on our way home. We've not talked about the incident for the past six or seven hours -- each of us getting our heads to accept this loss. May you rest in peace, Dave.
To tell you how others respected him -- last week, when I was chatting with Terry Kizer (Mr. Turbo, the guy that builds the motors for Sam Wheeler's E-Z Hook streamliner bike), Terry mentioned some work that he's got underway that could benefit one of our rides. I told Terry that we were talking with Dave Owen about turning wrenches for us -- and Terry's instant response was that Dave had already worked with Terry's stuff, and Terry tjen said that he wouldn't have any second thoughts about having Dave do the work instead of he himself. That's high regards from someone that makes his living building top-shelf motors -- saying that there's another person that could do it as well as he could.
Oh, Dave, we hardly knew you. You'll be missed.
