Anyone remember CDN racer Rhys Howard? He was apparently brilliant on a 250 but suffered a career ending crash in 1983 at Laguna Seca. Interestingly there is video of his crash on YouTube.
Through happenstance I actually met Rhys back in 1986. I was working painting houses during the summer and was riding my first LC to work daily. We were at a house in N Vancouver that belonged to his parents when this scrawny guy came out and asked about my bike. He told me he had been a racer but had suffered a bad crash and couldn't race anymore. For some reason his name stuck with me ever since.
Rhys didn't tell me much about himself. Years later I came across a Kevin Cameron article that mentioned Rhys so I wrote to Mr Cameron and asked about him. Kevin Cameron was nice enough to reply with some more details of Rhys and what he had been like. I still have the letter somewhere.
Couple of days ago I came across a mention of Rhys on internets. Seems he has a Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/rhys.howard.37
I'm considering sending him a message to see if he remembers our encounter from 30 years ago. :D
Anyone Remember Rhys Howard?
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Anyone Remember Rhys Howard?
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Re: Anyone Remember Rhys Howard?
Do it. I remember Rhys. I never met him, though.
Rory
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2 1984 RZ350s
1985 RZ350
9 1986-1990 RZ350s
2000 ST2
2005 749
2005 749 with 999 engine