This is sad,
This man and his "Everything Cycling Book" gave lots of good advice that I still enjoy today through articles by him and experts of the day.
Who could forget advice like this..... Tom Simpson helped me personally when saddle sores plagued me; cocaine laced baby powder in you chammy makes the miles just float by.
He was a fine gentleman too, his glasses were ahead of his time too.
Gilbert Anderson @ North Road Raleigh, NC USA
In a message dated 12/17/01 1:46:16 PM, OROBOYZ@aol.com writes:
<< This is from the British bike e-mail list and will be of interest to the CR
folk..
Trade legend dies
from http://www.bikebiz.co.uk - 17 Dec
Ron Kitching died in hospital this morning. The octogenerian was one of
the post-War shapers of the UK cycle trade, importing exotic bike parts
from Europe, and later Japan
Ron Kitching was also one of the co-founders of the CTC's York Rally and
was a key figure in the British bike trade from the late 1940s through
to the early 1990s.
He sold - and resold - Ron Kitching Ltd and this later transformed into
Zyro Ltd, with no links with Kitching.
A keen long-distance cyclist, he had started out with a bike shop in
Harrogate and went on to create a distribution business that was the
Madison of its day. The Ron Kitching annual catalogue - Everything
Cycling - was the kit bible of the day and contained most of the world's
most desirable bike brands.
In 1955 Everything Cycling (with a pic of Ron Kit himself on the cover)
was chocka with 1955 Bartali brake levers, Duprat hollow cranks, VIT
bottles and cages, Beborex brakes, TA Specialities, AVA bars and stems,
Idéale saddles, Huret derailleurs, REG alloy bottles and cages, Cinelli
steel bars and stems, Campagnolo groupsets, Fiammi rims, JOS dynamo
lamps, and André Bertin frames.
In 1979 Everything Cycling had kit from Philippe, Bullseye, Vitus, Zeus,
VAR, T.A., Bocama, REG, 3 t.t.t., Cinelli, Mafac, Ideale, SunTour, and
Milremo.
A full obituary will be included in the January issue of
BicycleBusiness. This will be written by Mike Breckon of the National
Byway who wrote an authorized biography of Ron Kitching (A wheel in Wwo
Worlds, 1993). A consumer version of this obituary will appear in next
week's Cycling Weekly.
No funeral details have yet to be announced. The funeral is being
handled by Ron Kitching's solicitors, the executors of his will. It is
expected there will be a private funeral and a post-Christmas memorial
service.
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~ Pete Biggs news@biggs.tc London, UK
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