The RIP thread...

I'm really shocked. I never met him but I followed the cycling podcast for many years and had a few email exchanges with hi. He also sent me a copy of Etape as well when it first came out.
For me he was part of the fabric of Procycling. I loved his writing style and thought In search of Robert Millar was an exceptional book.

NO......... only listed to a cycling podcast yesterday

Agreed, love the podcast and his writing style. 48 is too young.

It’s devastating news. What a shocking loss. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

Oh fuck. Read the comments immediately above but had to go back a page thinking 'no, it couldn't be...'

I'd met Richard on many occasions, he dated a friend for a couple of years. Really struggling with hearing this. RIP.

Yes I'm so stunned at the moment. I always thought I would bump into him at some point. Having moved from the Isle of Man to Derby some months back I had planned to go to one of the cycling Podcast shows as well.

What a dreadful loss to the sport. Chatted to him outside the team buses at the tour a few years ago, despite all the chaos he was totally happy to chat and even came back over to finish the conversation after he’d chatted to a rider. Unimaginably sad that he’s gone so young.

I’ve posted this in the Pro Cycling thread before checking here. What a huge loss to the sport and podcasting/journalism.

I had the pleasure of meeting him when they did the Trainer Road Challenge at the Velodrome. He was very friendly and entertaining too, made the session lots of fun. RIP.

Oh no. Terrible news. Far too young. :(

RIP Buffalo. I had met and photographed him a few times for The Cycling Podcast and he was a fine man; able to recall the minutae of races but make the whole weird enterprise more human through his writing. "In Search of Robert Millar" is such a fine book, and the Podcast did so much for making cycling relatable for those outside the sport.

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The Wanted’s Tom Parker. 33 ffs.

Love these photos

RIP Estelle Harris

Ah, she was great.

June Brown AKA Dot Cotton from Stenders

Absolute legend

RIP June. In a #csb, she had a nap in the room I'm typing this from when she was filming a show at our place a couple of years back. She was lovely.

I genuinely believed she’d live forever

I remember her on stage for the tenth birthday of the Dot Cotton Club (2000ish?) and she seemed ancient then! RIP June.

Legend. RIP. (Braces, hoping not to find out she was a bad racist or something)

Yesterday - Pamela Rooke (Jordan Mooney). Bile duct cancer.

Yeah, RIP Jordan

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RIP Alan Mark - a real gentleman

https://www.ballymenaguardian.co.uk/news/2022/04/07/gallery/club-mourns-the-passing-of-veteran-cyclist-alan-mark-23667/?fbclid=IwAR0T0Hjm7_YBCpIa4xp5ZyV8Z16_uafhDMN11nEx_n5quJjqsXfSOisvjk8#l1p34oo6yaio98bfqsj

When he goes through the committal curtains maybe he'll come back out dressed as an astronaut?