After talking with her a few times, now I know why Dave and her were such good friends. She is a very sharp lady. We (ok, she, I can't take much credit here!) changed the the design a bit to a much better layout. Commuta_Busa also helped straighten out my bad ideas into good ones.
This is all tentative, but so far it looks like this:
The front of the shirt will have "DaveO" and under that the picture of him sitting on the bike.
On the back will be "In Memeory of DaveO (or Dave Owen), 1959-2008"
Then the picture of him in his tuck on the bike,
and underneath that some of his accomplishments as a rider and a tuner.
Great job, Kathy!!!! Thank you for taking the time to do this and dealing with all the logistics. She is going to go with an original run of 100 shirts, mainly to accommodate wake/funeral participants. The leftovers or additional tshirt runs will be to accommodate people who can't make it will be filled afterwards.
The t-shirt guy Bob has been very generous and kind enough to do this without payment up front for his services. The t-shirts cost him $7.25 each, and we are planning on charging $20.00 each. This is because the excess money is going to the family, and dealing with $20 bills is a lot easier than having to do $25 or $15 for purposes of change, etc.
Sha had some concern about making so many t-shirts in the event they wouldn't get sold. Bob the t-shirt guy and her would not want to get left holding the bag and having to go into their own pockets.
When I heard this, I laughed a little bit and told her not to worry about it. There are plenty of people who are going that would be more than happy to help with the reimbusement costs in the event of an overun, especially my Dad and I. People with a lot bigger checkbooks than I have, too! I am actually concerned that we may not have enough, but hopefully Bob the t-shirt guy can run some off at hte last minute if he has to.
By the way, Bob the t-shirt guy is pushing 3 other projects to the back burner to get this done in time for us. If Kathy would post up his website/email address/address, perhaps we could all email him a note of appreciation, or give him some business in the future if we need t-shirts.
Thanks,
Walt