RIP @oldwheels

[Beebo]

Just found this recent post from Oldwheels in the Cemetery thread.
He’s back together with his wife now, in a shared grave.

I go and check the flowers on my wife's grave at least once a month.
It is a double lair so I will no doubt end up there as well. It has been designed to need no maintenance once I am not there to look after it as my family are too far away to realistically look after it.
This is a newish cemetery so no ancient headstones as in the old one which is full with the only unused graves belonging to somebody who has paid for a plot in the past.
Interesting to go and look around a cemetery in the Eastern Borders where my family ancestors had been buried for centuries.
Family history is interesting as they seemed to be into politics of the day which could be a dangerous interest although many are recorded as farmers but seemed to be very active in the Covenanting days.

 

[Vantage]

Just seen this. RIP @oldwheels and may the afterlife be full of twisty downhill rides through summery meadows.

 

[Chromatic]

RIP

 

[Oldhippy]

Very sad to hear.

 

[Windle]

RIP @oldwheels and condolences to Neil and family. It was always interesting hearing his stories and he seemed like a proper old cycling gent, the kind that every club has one of. The ones that are missed when they're gone, but always live on in the tales they told. Such folk are a classic part of cycling culture and hopefully all of us will have the chance to become one of those characters eventually.