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Passing of Friends………….

As mentioned in the editorial, the Club lost a stalwart
member very recently with the passing of former magazine
editor Joe the Fat Boy - or Stan Rose as we all knew him.
Mr Justice Stareleigh has kindly remembered him both as a
fellow Pickwickian and a friend.

Joe the Fat Boy
I knew Stan (Joe the Fat Boy) for nearly fifty years; I first
met him whilst serving on various cycling committees in North
London as a very keen and well respected official, judge and
commissaire. He was the manager for the English cycling team
for the Maccabi games. A member of the Harrow and Rickmansworth cycling club for many
years.
He founded Alisian products a sports promotional firm which specialised in cycling and
running equipment. His most famous products were his cycle racing crash helmets which
were used by the majority of English professional riders. He formed a professional cycle
racing team which travelled all over the country.
He organised the London to York cycle race. Helped form the G S Lanterne Rouge a
cycling club for "senior" racers and officials, we thought it might last for five or maybe ten
years, but has now just celebrated its thirty-eighth year!
Stan joined the Pedal Club in 1971 and was made a life member for services to the club.
He joined the Pickwick Bicycle club in 1976, and was made President in 2004.
He was editor of the Pickwick club magazine for at least ten or twelve years, and brought
it into the twenty-first century.

A great personal friend and club-mate, we will all miss him.
Ron, Mr Justice Stareleigh.

We should also remember 25year old Josephine Gilbert, the UK and
International racing cyclist. so tragically killed in January. when hit by a
lorry whilst out training in Derbyshire.