Is this the same John North from the Velodrome?

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Sad news even if not, sounds like a proper bloke.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...world_record_holding_cyclist_from_Rossendale/

 

[dan_bo]

The coach with a face like a gable end? Sounds like him. Hope not.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

The coach with a face like a gable end? Sounds like him. Hope not.

That's who I was thinking off. Used to pass me on club runs at about 6:30 on Tuesdays iirc, made me feel like I was going backwards.

Edit: near home as he lived near me.

 

[dan_bo]

If I remember rightly he was from blackburn end. Either way, RIP.