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mig
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Mike Burrows

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saddened to read of his passing yesterday. anything i read about him over the years was always interesting and informative. he would have been a great poster in many threads here!
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+1
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I've just been out to break the news to my Windcheetah.

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Very sad news, such an innovative man.
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IME very innovative and strongly opinioned, but very approachable and happy to chat HPV. He will be sorely missed for all sorts of reasons: RIP.
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:-(
He did the occasional YT video and seemed like one of those rare sorts who permanently thinks new ideas and - pop! - a couple of days later, he's made the idea into real life. Awsome.
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Sad to here of his passing. I read his book Bicycle Design borrowed from the library years ago. An excellent read if you can get hold of a copy. I've been using his chain lub advice for several years until I moved on to waxing.
At the last count:- Peugeot 531 pro, Dawes Discovery Tandem, Dawes Kingpin X3, Raleigh 20 stowaway, 1965 Moulton deluxe, Falcon K2 MTB dropped bar tourer, Rudge Bi frame folder, Longstaff trike conversion on a Giant XTC 840 :D
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I was quite sorry to hear this on the 8am news on the radio this morning. I think he will be missed in several fields locally. RIP.
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Meeting and chatting to Mike at the World HPV championships in Kent, getting a signed copy of his book 'From Bicycle to Superbike' and a complementary plastic spoke already ranked high in my list of personal encounters - now such a precious memory :( .

At 70+ he was still racing as fast as he did in his younger days by dint of designing faster and faster recumbents. I remember him looking at his lap times and commenting that he was going faster than Chris Froome had in his latest TDF time trial.

Nice to see that some of the obituaries are recognising the 2D as one of his most innovative, practical but still ignored, designs. The final parade in the pictures below was of all Mike's bikes.

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rjb wrote: 16 Aug 2022, 11:37am Sad to here of his passing. I read his book Bicycle Design borrowed from the library years ago. An excellent read if you can get hold of a copy. I've been using his chain lub advice for several years until I moved on to waxing.
not sure i know that one....??
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mig wrote: 16 Aug 2022, 12:09pm
rjb wrote: 16 Aug 2022, 11:37am Sad to here of his passing. I read his book Bicycle Design borrowed from the library years ago. An excellent read if you can get hold of a copy. I've been using his chain lub advice for several years until I moved on to waxing.
not sure i know that one....??
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I met Mike briefly once, a very engaging man, he could talk bikes all day, a sad loss, he deserves more recognition than he was given, but I reckon he would have just said that's nice,nodded and then got on with whatever he was doing.
I was following what he was getting along with his 'Soup Dragon ' speed Racer concept, I admired his suck it & see approach to engineering , for him it was very much function over form.
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Thanks for posting the news - it's appreciated although now the world will seem to be a less magical place now that he's gone

I don't think his genius was very truely appreciated by bicycle manufacturers who seemed content to re-hash the same bicycle designs over and over again. There are very few like him in the cycle world and he will be deeply missed.

(Mike brought to the world, the single sided fork, the front and rear bicycle stub axle, zero rake, really short cranks amongst tge host of folding bikes, load carriers and recumbent cycles)
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Sad to hear the news.
Nice tribute on road.cc
https://road.cc/content/news/rememberin ... 295241?amp
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