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Ricky_Racer has passed
« on: July 21, 2024, 03:12:30 PM »
I only know his friend Ivan texted me that's all he knew rt now. RIP Ted Allen 🙏 😢  you were always fun to talk and deal with. Ride on, brother.
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2024, 06:27:43 PM »
His friend Ivan Rodriguez and his girlfriend went to visit him today. They were going to help him pack up a few things. He was about to move to the Philippines. He was excited about it and looked forward to it. They found the door open and him unresponsive on the floor. Called tge police and unfortunately he was already gone. RIP 🙏 Ted Allen.
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2024, 07:47:44 PM »
Bill, thanks for posting. I had been in touch with Ted about meeting up in the Manila area in Spetember. He had his spot picked out and was very much looking forward to the transition. I was looking forward to meeting him the first time.

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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2024, 10:30:50 PM »
I went to Ted's a few times to get parts and had a great time with him in 2020 and 2021. He was a lot of knowledge. Going to miss him. Ride on Rickey Racer.
« Last Edit: July 21, 2024, 10:36:15 PM by newday777 »
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New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and have missed it greatly.....
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2024, 11:11:43 PM »
I went to Ted's a few times to get parts and had a great time with him in 2020 and 2021. He was a lot of knowledge. Going to miss him. Ride on Rickey Racer.
Rickey Racer's last name is not Allen??
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2024, 03:12:52 AM »
Sad news, another dwell of knowledge has left the SOHC forums.
It is the forum name Ricky_Racer, right?
Age 77...

R.I.P. Ted Allen
« Last Edit: July 22, 2024, 03:31:44 AM by PeWe »
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2024, 04:34:11 AM »
I went to Ted's a few times to get parts and had a great time with him in 2020 and 2021. He was a lot of knowledge. Going to miss him. Ride on Rickey Racer.
Rickey Racer's last name is not Allen??
Sorry Scott
But it Most certainly was
« Last Edit: July 29, 2024, 11:54:01 AM by scottly »
Stu
Honda Parts manager in the mid 1970s Nashua Honda
My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and have missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2024, 05:48:55 AM »
I had done business with Ted several times over years, and I always made the checks out to Ted McCarty!?? His middle initial was A.
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2024, 06:47:08 AM »
Well,damn. That's sad. He sounded pretty excited about his move to the Philippines.
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2024, 08:18:41 AM »
I had done business with Ted several times over years, and I always made the checks out to Ted McCarty!?? His middle initial was A.
same here...really confused about who died here
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2024, 08:33:05 AM »
I went to Ted's a few times to get parts and had a great time with him in 2020 and 2021. He was a lot of knowledge. Going to miss him. Ride on Rickey Racer.
Rickey Racer's last name is not Allen??
Sorry Scott
But it Most certainly was
Stu, did that come from Fakebook? Maybe it was a nom de plume? Ricky_Racer did live in Lakeside, and that is his phone #.
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2024, 09:16:35 AM »
Well,damn. That's sad. He sounded pretty excited about his move to the Philippines.

He was almost on his way in the next few days. He said he was going with his brother-in-law to pick out a place he had found to live in. We were talking about a dinner steak house meeting that the ex-pats do monthly in September. He left this world on a high note.

I second and verify that phone number 
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2024, 09:26:38 AM »
Jerry, did you know him as Ted Allen or Ted McCarty?
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2024, 09:46:27 AM »
I went to Ted's a few times to get parts and had a great time with him in 2020 and 2021. He was a lot of knowledge. Going to miss him. Ride on Rickey Racer.
Rickey Racer's last name is not Allen??
Sorry Scott
But it Most certainly was
Stu, did that come from Fakebook? Maybe it was a nom de plume? Ricky_Racer did live in Lakeside, and that is his phone #.
That came from Ted himself for me to contact him.
I think I remember though he may have said Mcarty as his last name for checks
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Honda Parts manager in the mid 1970s Nashua Honda
My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and have missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

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Re: Ricky_Racer has passed
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2024, 10:53:21 AM »
R.I.P. Ted.
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Re: Ted Allen has passed
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2024, 11:00:12 AM »
Jerry, did you know him as Ted Allen or Ted McCarty?

Scott, I only spoke with him once in the past month or so with 2 or 3 PM's prior. Ted and Ricky Racer.

I passed this info along to the contact at the Philippine Retirement Authority as Ted Allen. She had no client with that name and came back and asked if he is possible Ted Allen McCarthy.
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Re: Ricky_Racer has passed
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2024, 11:16:44 AM »
Well then...sad news.  I also had many dealings with him, although never met him in person.  He was always a pleasure to deal with...so much unobtainable knowledge.  I could always tell that he really did not want to let go of his motorcycle collection, but was very happy to find others that appreciated his stuff.  Condolences to all who knew him.
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Re: Ricky_Racer has passed
« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2024, 11:23:10 AM »
He was always a pleasure to deal with.
1+  :(
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Re: Ricky_Racer has passed
« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2024, 11:46:54 AM »
He was active on the forum not long ago
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,195092.msg2287134.html#msg2287134

He sold all his Japauto stuff too I presume...
CB750 K6-76  970cc (Earlier 1005cc JMR Billet block on the shelf waiting for a comeback)
CB750 K2-75 Parts assembled to a stock K2

Updates of the CB750 K6 -1976
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180468.msg2092136.html#msg2092136
The billet block build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,49438.msg1863571.html#msg1863571
CB750 K2 -1975  build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,168243.msg1948381.html#msg1948381
K2 engine build thread. For a complete CB750 -75
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180088.msg2088008.html#msg2088008
Carb jetting, a long story Mikuni TMR32
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,179479.msg2104967.html#msg2104967

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Re: Ricky_Racer has passed
« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2024, 03:34:08 PM »
Damn, I miss you already Ted!  RIP


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Re: Ricky_Racer has passed
« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2024, 04:44:34 PM »
I've dealt with Ted numerous times through the forum here. Always pleasant to deal with and always seemed to have the coolest parts! If I lived on the West coast I would likely have purchased a great many more items from him. I know he was looking forward to retirement...

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Re: Ricky_Racer has passed
« Reply #21 on: July 22, 2024, 07:37:31 PM »
Ted did say he had some sort of deal for the bike and/or engine. Can't say if that materialized.
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Re: Ricky_Racer has passed
« Reply #22 on: July 23, 2024, 07:59:30 AM »
Sad to hear, I dealt with him as well, always a pleasure.

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« Reply #23 on: July 23, 2024, 06:45:59 PM »
If anyone runs across an obituary, etc please link me to it. I'd like to forward it to the powers that be in the PRA, Philippines Retirement Authority where Ted was applying for a SRRV, Special Resident Retirement Visa. If he had gotten very far into the process he may have funded the required bank account which is some serious change his heirs would deserve.
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Re: Ricky_Racer has passed
« Reply #24 on: July 24, 2024, 09:43:06 AM »
Ricky saved our butts a couple of years ago when we found a broken upper triple tree for a 70' CB 450. We bought one off of Fakebook and got ghosted for$50. Ricky sold us a complete triple tree assembly for the same $50 as we lost. 8)
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