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Via e-mail:

Richard Wascher (aka WASCO), 54, suffered a stroke on Thursday morning.

He has numbness on his left side. His face and left eye seem to be most affected. He has movement of his hand arm and leg but will have to undergo rehabilitation to relearn how to walk normally.

He has a good chance for a full recovery.

WASCO is in Virginia Mason Hospital in downtown Seattle and will be there for at least another week.

Richard was a national number AMA dirt tracker in the 1960s. He participated in an occasional road race and is still an avid trail riding enthusiast. WASCO Frame Service has been a mainstay in motorcycle racing in the Pacific Northwest since the 1970s.

Richard build the dirt track chassis that Mickey Fay used to win the Houston Astro dome TT event when Honda first brought out the XR500 motors.

There were also a couple of special frames built for Bob Work of Yamaha Motor Canada to carry Steve Baker’s special works OW-31 750cc engines.

For the past few years, WASCO Frame has been concentrating on doing custom work on Harleys and crash repair for street and competition frames and bikes.

Best wishes can be sent to the Hospital.

Bruce J. Lind Bruce Lind Racing LLC