Obituary David Taylor 1937–2020

Legendary cycling journalist who reported from outside contemporary realms

- Micheal Hutchinson

There are few people whose love of cycling was as all-encompassing as that of journalist David Taylor, who died last month at the age of 82.

Notably, he was the only reporter who felt it was worthwhile to travel to Norway for the Hour record attempt of a little-known Scot called Graeme Obree in 1993. He was rewarded with the story, and more importantly, the pleasure of seeing the man whose battles with Chris Boardman he’d been covering for the previous few seasons, beat the record of the legendary Francisco Moser.

His love of cycling was sparked as a teenager, watching events in Finsbury Park in North London. He quickly took to racing, especially new-to-the- UK mass-start events with the ‘radical’ British League of Racing Cyclists.