A tidbit that may only be interesting to a few of us: The Laguna Seca track day RGBeard and I did was a few days past the six month anniversary of Kevin Stevens' passing. He had badgered me for years to do a track day there with him, but for a variety of reasons it never happened. Now, though, I had a bike with a legal muffler, so when Rusty suggested it as a memorial track day I readily agreed.
If you look closely at the photo at the top of this thread you may see an orange aluminum canister taped (using Angry Birds duct tape) to my brake line right by the lever. It contains a bit of Kevin's ashes. He must have been OK with the whole thing, because I didn't hear a peep from him all day.
The beverage of choice trackside was Diet Coke, also in his honor. Normally I would never touch the stuff, but Kevin was a great consumer of the toxic liquid, so we drank several bottles each in his memory.
