The great Peter Rich has died, Aug. 3rd

I don’t know how to turn this into a proper text, so here’s the link:

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/08/09/remembering-peter-rich-who-organized-1st-major-stage-bicycle-race-in-u-s

He and I worked on panel discussions at USBHOF (bicycle hall of fame in Davis, Ca) with an ever-dwindling group of aged road racers. Alas, none of them were taped…that is probably both of our fault. He worked so hard to get people there, and I just tried to keep Peter on track, he was going in so many different directions. I got to be on one panel, at the 40th anniversary of Velosport, his seminal shop in the heart of Berkeley.
He had a stroke about eight months before Charlie had his crash,so the year 2015 was a shitty one for both of us (although the first eight months of that year were some of the best in my life…the Marin Museum of Bicycling opened, with both my bike (“Otto”) and Charlie’s “CC Proto” on the walls, with really great descriptions…they remain there, and Otto has a few WOMBATS accoutrements as well: china teacup and saucer, string of pearls, some lace, a jacquard-loomed tea towel with the long name of my club: Women’s Mountain Bike & Tea Society. One of the club mottoes: “Let Tea Equal Time”

Rest peacefully, Peter