Hoyt is gone

On 2004-05-09 15:20:06 PST, Bob Nixon wrote (on rec.motorcycles)

RIP.

 

<AOL>

If he's cremated, what will they do with the carbon?

 

Good question. Seems a fitting moment to wheel out an old sig I
created specially to help people who had been given some of his
misguided and inaccurate advice - RIP, Hoyt.

 

<Splutter>

Nice.

 

Typical but nice.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

Scrape it off, of course.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

<plays "Taps" slightly off-key on an old exhaust system>

Ta-ta-ta. Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-taaaaaaaaaah, etc...

He'll be missed.

Probably.

Somewhere.

I expect.

 

Mark Olson wrote

Indeed, the passing of an era that is.

 

Indeed.

"any man's death diminishes me"

 

Google is your friend.

 

Who was this "Oliver Hoyt McKagen, III" chap then?

and what was he famous for?

 

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=
hoyt+mckagen+carbon

Pick your choice of threads.

 

Martian wrote

Google usenet not the web. You might have to go back a year or three.

 

I did and all that came up was his obit or links to it.

I gleaned something about batwings.

Give us a hint?

 

He liked his metallurgy then.

 

[Really, no offence, Hoyt, but all your tuning "advice" seems to be rooted
in engines designed before 1975.]

[I find it hard to believe you're up to speed on modern engines and
technology *at all*. I'm quite happy to be proven wrong in the above issue
of carbon tc. but in the meantime, IMHO, you're talking complete crap.]

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

He can't hear you. He's gorn, snuffed it, shuffled off this mortal coil.

<pauses expectantly for Hoyt's post refuting that, just for the sake of
it>

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Andy Bonwick wrote:

[Hoyt]

When your numbers up, taunt people on usenet!