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dave M · Nov 27, 2025

If you do a Google search using 'Steven Otis Shiver' there are several mentions of his passing, seemingly from different web-sites. Also he had a Facebook account under this name and there is a short homage from a friend on the last entry. He was at some point in life a well-respected chiropractor with a number of his patients thanking him on his page. He used to post intermittently on FB, but it became increasingly difficult to read as he seemed to have some neurological issues going on that led to some kind of extreme dyslexia - much worse than what he previously displayed on this site. He was in a nursing home at some point and had his leg amputated at the knee and the nursing home were reportedly trying to throw him out. This is all a few months ago, I don't know what happened to him recently, but he was clearly on a downward spiral.

Rest in Peace Hobot, old chum, your often crazy contributions to this site were frequently entertaining to say the least.

CanukNortonNut · Friday at 11:57 PM

Rest in Peace Steve

SteveMinning · Saturday at 4:49 PM

Yes, he indeed passed away. I was 'friends' with him on Facebook. Whatever anyone thinks of him he was a free spirit and a VERY unique person.

franko · Saturday at 7:17 PM

I remember first reading his post on the INOAlist before he came here. After getting home from work, I would look for a post from him. Brightened my spirits it did. The anachronism he would use, wow. I got to meet him at the INOA rally in New Hampshire around 2005.
He brought a smile to me. I still remember the test he did to see how much a commando motor moved around. Informative, it was.

hpshooter · Sunday at 5:33 AM

A unique personality without a doubt. Talked to him at a couple of the national USNOA events. Enjoyed his Trixie and Drouin stories and theories.
Rest in peace and keep em sideways in the gravel in the great beyond!

74ok · Sunday at 7:27 AM

ashman said:
I had quite few messages from Steve over the years but its been sometime now since he went quiet from the site, I always enjoyed his threads, some hard to understand at first but he had a way of explaining things and doing things, but I like that in a strange way, I always wondered how he was going, he sort of went off in his own world when he lost his best mate, anyway RIP hobot (Steve).

Ashley

last checked in here feb this year, 20 yrs on this site & i think highest post count, rip

Thread 'Hobot'

Dec 21, 2024

Many may remember a past poster here who posted under the name Hobot. He had a very unusual way of writing that many found so cryptic as to be unintelligible. I found his posts to be oddly fascinating.

I discovered him on Facebook some years ago, recognizing his writing style in a post he made on one of the Norton groups. I've followed him as a 'friend' since.

The main reason for my note is to let the board know that Hobot is currently in a nursing home in Arkansas and apparently not doing well. Someone is posting on his Facebook account seeking support for him.

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May 21, 2019

Hey ho FastFurious Eddie, only posted to ease some minds of my surviving for the many Nortoneers that know my decades of sagas but no desire to socialize with loud mouth naysayers. Sliced off r foot last July to make my own peg leg to kick start fine but no ankle motion so will have to make heel/toe shiftier for commutes on factory Trixie Combat and air shiftier for drag strips shifts on Mz Peel to embarrass the moderns wheelie cripples. Got to meet the prosthetist that made tails for Winter the dolphin, impressed at my 'makeshift' hi tech cheap fast peg leg, asking how i did it so...

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