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When you moved to Kawasaki in the late 1970’s, what do you remember about working with and mentoring Wayne Rainey at the time?
I had a five year contract with Can-Am and at the end of the five years, they moved me back to Southern California where my home was. I went to work with Kawasaki in product development and I still had the racing bug, so I talked to ‘em and I said “Let me at least build a short tracker. I’ve got a kid that I think will do pretty good for Kawasaki.” They said “Who’s that?” and I told ‘em “A Southern California kid named Rainey.” Nobody’s ever heard of him and in ‘79 I built a bike for him; he did fairly good. In 1980, I built a new bike for him and he got better. Then Keith Code told
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