south west cycle club suffered a loss yesterday with one of their riders being killed while riding home from work. darren strudwick was a well liked and respected member of their club and our condolences go to his family, friends and club.
we have a good relationship with the south west club as we share very similar views on how a club should be run and what our goals are. we hope that they can get through this tough time and rally together to support each other.
we have been very lucky in the last 6 years that i have been here, that we haven’t had to deal with anything this serious. however, it is a reminder of just how fragile we are out there on the roads and we must not put ourselves at a higher risk than we need to. keeping the group together is a good way to maintain our presence on the road as individual riders risk having cars try to squeeze past. if you are riding solo to work, etc, then make sure you make yourself known (i.e. all black at night is just asking for trouble), don’t do anything silly and use the bike path during peak hour if you can.
take care out there.
A suggestion that the club send something to Darren’s family on behalf of the club. Flowers, a personal note, something to indicate that we as a cycling community feel for them, and to express our condolences.
Whip around on Sat, donations to the bank account?
that’s very sad news. R.I.P.
+1 on the flowers
Thanks for the post Peter. Its devastating in so many ways – words just cannot convey how great is the loss. RIP Dazza
alot of us heard about the accident and it is exceptionally sad to hear that a life was lost. Would be happy to contibute to some flowers.
Sad news. I concur with Jorgy about sending something to daz’s family.
That really sucks 🙁
+1 for sending something to his family
Tragic news, thanks for the post and good advice Peter. The best thing we can do as a club it to make an effort to make the roads and ourselves safer. To many don’t-give-a-sh#% drivers out there.