That's pretty accurate. John Stein is a racer who has competed several times at the Pukekohe classic festival, so has had the opportunity to speak to some of those involved, unlike the American journo Dean Adams who has had several pot shots at Pukekohe and NZ over the years, without ever doing much in the way of informed research. To return loosely to the theme of this thread, Scott Brelsford was recently interviewed about the incident by Adams, and his recollection of that day at Pukekohe was that he felt bad Rayborn was faced with riding the Suzuki under these circumstances, and felt inclined to offer Rayborn the ride on Brelsford's factory XR-TT Harley, which was scheduled to take part in the series, but in fact it was three weeks later at the series' fourth round at Ruapuna by the time the bike was unloaded and cleared customs, so this was never any more than a forlorn, time-distorted wish. Again, very sad.