2008-12-18 - Rider Down/Fatality, Richmond Park

from a post on veloriders:

Martyn Dobson from the Cleveland Wheelers, a good friend of mine has now been id'd and family notified. I'm absolutely gutted. It sounds like he collapsed whilst riding as opposed to being in an accident. I'd recommend not being a friend of mine at Christmas as that's 2 year's running within 10 days of the same date that a friend has died.

For those that don't know Martyn, he was a handy juvenile (Cleveland crit champ) and junior from the 90's. We got 4th in the Team Pursuit champs one year too.

I think I'm going to start carrying ID with me, and maybe even put a helmet on.

RIP Martyn

Apologies to anyone that knew him and had to find out through this forum.