Between a cold I’m having a hard time shaking and a two-month-old son at home, I was having a hard time sleeping last night.
I checked the traffic to my site for the day and noticed a few people were visiting from a post on DrunkCyclist.com and thought that was strange since I hadn’t seen anything posted about the site in a while.
I went to look and it turns out it was a post on their site linking to my story about my friend and bike shop owner Steve Vihel who died from hear failure.
I checked out date and realized Steve will have been gone for a year on Saturday.
Rereading the article and the comments people posted about him reminded me again how big his loss is to the biking community.
It’s always a little random and surprising when Steve has popped into my mind over the last year, but I know I’ll be spending my weekend remembering Steve and his family.
In addition to my post, you should read Josh Brodesky’s tribute to Steve too.
Steve was a big part of several communities. We in the Tucson ultimate frisbee community are kicking off a memorial award for Steve at the Hoasis tournament this weekend:
http://www.tucsonultimate.com/spiritofsteve/
We hear through friends that the Boulder, Colorado ultimate community have started a similar award for Steve. His impact was wide-spread!
Went past the empty storefront the other day. As is my custom, I say a few words to Steve.
Thought this was an interesting idea.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/9712534/Young-inventor-My-bright-idea-to-cut-cycling-deaths.html