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John was a proper cycling road warrior, he got himself arrested on a number of occasions riding a cycle on US motor only roads. Admired him loads for his reclaim the street mission.
I had one disagreement with him. When I wrote the latest version of the Cycle Training Instructor Manual I sent him a copy. He liked it but we didn't agree about the best saddle height.
Cycle instructors teach people to be able to stop and put the balls of their feet down while still sitting in the saddle. John insisted that this was too low and that riders should come forward and sit on the crossbar when stopping. John Franklin, the UK's version of Forester sided with me :) CSB
skydancer
Oliver Schick
I've just seen that John Forester died on the 14th April. He was 90. No news articles or obituaries yet. He's probably best known as the father of cycle training (although he always said that everything he wrote about cycling was not of his own invention but well-known to club cyclists as strategies for dealing with increasing motorisation decades before), and his 'Effective Cycling' is a key book, but he also wrote on transport planning, as well as a biography of his father, C.S. Forester.
Sad news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forester_(cyclist)