Yamaman, you've said it with with more more poetry, eloquence and feeling than most of us could ever hope to. What a loss - for us in the XS community, all he wanted was for our bikes to run the best they could, and he shared everything he knew about that, again and again, with anyone who asked. I bought a set of his needles for my current '82 before I even had the bike home - he wrote many extra notes on his printed installation instructions, which I thought were pretty thorough just by themselves. He e-mailed me twice to make sure everything went together and worked all right, which it did. I did his timing retard - works great - and his extra inlet in the airboxes. What a generous spirit - too few in the world as it is, and now one less. I believe the best way to honor him is to be as generous in sharing what we know with each other, if maybe only a small fraction of what John knew (which surely is my case), as freely as he did.