How did you get to know Baker Brent?
Hey Mike, Steve lived in Bellingham, Wa and at least early on, considered Westwood track in BC his home track. He became Canadian champion after Jimmy Allen (Dunlop tire fame) I believe, and with support from Yamaha Motor Canada & tuner Bob Work became quite succesful.
We'd see him at all the National rounds, but on occasion he'd even show up on Wednesday evenings to practise with us mere mortals.
Good guy.
I remember one of these practise sessions I rounded a corner to see Steve come limping out of the brush waving his arms like mad. Turns out he crashed in a mess of oil left on the track and had the where-with-all to alert the rest of us.
Another race weekend the RCMP set up a radar gun to show the spectators what speeds were attained. After the hairpin up into the chicane Deb said I'd hit 62mph on her RD. On his TZ750 Steve would click off a 126 time after time, twice as bloody fast, in a spot that amazed me.