Snotzo- thanks very much for passing this on.
Very sad news for me personally. I have raced a Nourish engined Norton and Seeley for 31 years now and couldn’t have done that without Dave’s very helpful and friendly advice. I’m based in the US but spent many hours on the phone with him and was grateful for the amount of time he would spend on my questions. I always felt a bit guilty because I knew it was taking away from his time running machines or assembling engines. He was very much a kind of automotive renaissance man – he’d source the castings, pistons, etc himself, machine parts himself, balance parts himself, drive parts half way across the country for heat treating, assemble the engine himself, test the engine himself and then put one in a Seeley frame and sponsor a rider to ride it in the IOM Manx Classic races each year. And he was doing this into his eighties. I found him to be quite inspirational and thought if I could be just half as sharp as he was as his age I would be doing good.