Cycling fans and racers around the world are mourning the death of 57-year-old multi-discipline champion Steve Tilford. The American was killed in a traffic crash in the early hours of April 5, 2017 in eastern Utah. Tilford leaves behind his partner Trudi Rebsamen, a soigneur with the BMC Racing Team.
Tilford's friend Vincent Davis, who was traveling with Tilford on Wednesday, is collecting stories that will be posted on Tilford's blog page stevetilford.com. You can send them to stories@stevetilford.com.
Bicycling Magazine's Bill Strickland wrote an extensive feature on Tilford almost 20 years ago, describing his career: "Tilford has extraordinary talent on a bike. He's a four-time national cyclo-cross champion. He once held the U.S. hour record. He rode alongside that great generation of American road pros that included Davis Phinney, Ron Keifel, Mike Engleman. Greg LeMond personally picked him to ride domestique at the world championships one year. Andy Hampsten relied on him for support in stage races. In '96 he finished second in the U.S. Olympic mountain bike trials.
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"Parts of his riding ability are as good as anyone in the world. For instance, side by side he dismounts, runs with his bike and remounts faster than Thomas Frischknecht. He's the fastest tight-corner rider in mountain biking — a skill that's given him a string of victories in the Fat Boy Criterium stages of Cactus Cup races."
Paul Willerton, former road and mountain bike pro, remembered Tilford in a heartfelt Facebook note:
"Steve Tilford passed away on the morning of April 5th, 2017. I learned of his passing from my friend and former teammate, Mike Bohannon. Mike and I had recently discussed trauma resulting from serious head injuries. We cited particular blog posts of Steve Tilford to learn more about the subject. Tilford wrote regularly on stevetilford.com about the challenges he faced following a head injury from falling off his bike. In recent years Steve compiled what was, in my opinion, the best blog of any bike racer active or retired. Retirement was not something Steve was interested in. I think it was a term he associated with an ending, and that was not how he lived his life.
— Connie Carpenter (@bikecamp) April 6, 2017
— Jonathan Page (@thejonathanpage) April 5, 2017— Karen Desjardin (@karendesjardin) April 6, 2017
— oldfatslow (@oldfatslow) April 6, 2017
— todd wells (@yotwells) April 5, 2017
— Derek Bouchard-Hall (@DBouchardHall) April 5, 2017
— benjamin sharp (@bensharp13) April 5, 2017
— Stephen Ettinger (@settinger_) April 5, 2017
— travis brown (@TBrowntrip) April 5, 2017
— Brent Bookwalter (@brentbookwalter) April 5, 2017
— CTS (@trainright) April 5, 2017
— John Wilcockson (@johnwilcockson) April 5, 2017
— Alex Edwards (@kccxalex) April 5, 2017
— Coach Kyle Wolfe (@CoachKyleFFC) April 5, 2017
— Coach Kyle Wolfe (@CoachKyleFFC) April 5, 2017
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