2024-12-10 - Maj

Followed her path with much interest and enjoyed her train of thought many times. My thoughts to her friends and family. RIP

Condolences to her family and friends.

Really sad news. She had a great outlook on life, and was so expressive in her writing.

Jesus fucking christ

that's awful awful news. never met hayley but chatted a bit here and on insta. seemed such a good egg. as others had said, had a wonderfully way with words. absolutely gutted.

thoughts are with her friends and family.

fuck.

Oh no. Just a reader of posts, but they were/are amazing ones. Condolences to all who knew Hayley.

That's really not fucking fair. Hayley was cool, a forum asset. I'm glad we had met, if only the once.

RIP Maj

RIP Hayley, as other have said, never met her but followed her builds and miniature-painting journeys closely due to her amazing writing ability.

We lost a great human :(

Love to all those that knew her.

So sad to read this.

RIP Hayley.

Never met her, just read some of her stuff on here.

My condolences to her friends and family.

Awful news. One of the greats of the forum, whose posts I always enjoyed reading. Rest In Peace.

As a few ^ have said, enjoyed the posts and bounce she brought to this place. Dismal news, and my condolences to her friends here.

This is terribly sad. Echoing everyone else’s thoughts above. Her current builds thread was such good reading.

shit. that fucking sucks.
really enjoyed her build threads and general outlook on life.
RIP to a legend.

Awful news. I didn't really interact with her directly but her posts always got a chuckle out of me and her joie de vivre was plain for all to see.

I've struggled with accepting this news today. I think Hayley was able to bring out the best in her friends, and also helped to remind a lot of people here that we can still be a real community

I shall miss our nerdy little chats about hobby interests, and not seeing her on future Epping rides will always remind me of someone whose company and opinion I greatly valued

Rest in peace

This is so sad 😞 I thoroughly enjoyed reading many of Hayley’s posts - her ability to understand and articulate ideas was unmatched on here.

Condolences to her family and all who knew her x

Horrible news, amazing how someone most of us have never met had such a positive impact on our lives. She will leave a large hole in this forum. Condolences to her family and friends.

As an intermittent lurker on her build thread I really enjoyed her writing, absolute genius. I feel a bit weird to only pipe up now she’s gone.

Love to her family and friends.

Rest well Maj.

Hayley was a proper trooper and will be missed sorely and will leave a lasting impression on many.
Her posts this past couple of weeks seem even more poignant now. She was getting out and riding her bike - a thing she loved and that we share with her, despite her health and we would all do well to be more Hayley.

I've been thinking this all day - because she shared and expressed so much, there will be so many people who cared about her and how she was doing that she never knew about. it was impossible for her to know.

I never met Hayley in person but always loved reading her build posts, she was a gifted writer and someone who truly made bikes fun. Such shit news.

RIP

Have struggled so much to put words to this today, and though it feel strange spilling this much on the forum, I want to give it a stab while it's still raw like this because it feels like the absolute least Hayley deserves that people are open about what she meant to them, especially on here, where she impacted so many people. Also let's face it, she was never one to shy away from writing openly and at length, so consider this a tribute in kind to her.

Hayley touched so many lives just by living her own. She simply got it and could communicate it like nobody else. She cared about people like nobody else. She could see the absurd reality of life for what it was like nobody else. Her politics were her own, and ever developing. Her bike builds were always somehow far greater than the sum of their parts; always put together with a vision imitated by many (including me) but never really touched by anyone. Her insight and wit, even at the most frustrating or overwhelming of times for her, were razor sharp. Her capacity to offer attention and compassion and wisdom when someone needed it was almost superhuman – I've truly never met another person who had these things in such spades. She was one of the funniest people I've ever met, and probably the best writer I've ever known (something made all the more amazing and funnier by the fact that she had zero ambitions in that direction whatsoever). I've said often before that Hayley could have done literally anything she wanted, but that she chose above anything to live well and authentically. She simply did her thing, at all times, as much as it was in her power to, and invited everyone to realise it was in their best interests to do the same while we still could.

So many of the comments on this thread are testaments to Hayley's singular ability to connect with someone in a single meeting, a single exchange of messages, or even indirectly in a single post. Anyone lucky enough to have known her in the longer term will tell you she was like this to the core. Meeting her on here and becoming friends when we did changed the course my life, and I know the same was true for many mutual friends. To say I'm grateful to have known and loved her is to pathetically understate it – I and this forum and the wider cycling world and everyone who ever knew her in any capacity was lucky to have had her. She brought so many people together; it was what she truly loved to do. I loved the time we spent riding bikes, talking, laughing, chilling, working shit out together. Her passing is a huge loss to all of us, and I know her impacts will continue to be felt in big and small ways long into the future. RIP dear Hayley.

your have written such a beautiful post for Hayley thank you for sharing with us. My thoughts and condolences are with her family, friends and all on the forum who knew and loved her.

Ride in Peace Hayley

Thanks for writing this

I think Hayley would be proud of the way you put that into words.
She will be missed.