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Steve Tilford Passes Away
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After nearly losing one of my former teammates last year to a horrible cycling accident, I'm gutted to learn he passed away last night in a car accident driving back to Kansas. I know many on here followed Steve and thought I would let group know.

Keep Trudi and Tucker in your thoughts guys.

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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [JustinNorCal] [ In reply to ]
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Damn. Just after he mostly recovered from his head injury.
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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [JustinNorCal] [ In reply to ]
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JustinNorCal wrote:
After nearly losing one of my former teammates last year to a horrible cycling accident, I'm gutted to learn he passed away last night in a car accident driving back to Kansas. I know many on here followed Steve and thought I would let group know.

Keep Trudi and Tucker in your thoughts guys.

I read his blog regularly. A racing legend. Truly horrible after his recent crash and recovery. It sounds like a grim passing too.

RIP
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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [JustinNorCal] [ In reply to ]
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Saw that this morning.
Crazy, to say the least.

Not many details. Seems like they survived the first crash involving their vehicle relatively unharmed, then a second semi hit the scene of the original accident which is what took Steve's life? Not fact, just what I've gathered.

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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [xtrpickels] [ In reply to ]
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The real deal. No diva. He'd race anything just to race. My cycling hero. RIP.
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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [JustinNorCal] [ In reply to ]
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Even though this article is almost 20 years old, I think it captures Steve Tilford better than most anything else. The fact that he was such an active racer at his age after a pro career is evidence alone how much he really just loved the sport.

https://truebs.com/...ford-is-why-we-ride/

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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [JustinNorCal] [ In reply to ]
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Many people may not know that Steve Tilford also did a few triathlons.

It was the later 80's and I was doing a triathlon in Manhattan Kansas when a guy went ripping by me on the multi lap bike like I was standing still. I kept tabs on the top people and was checking out the results to see an unfamiliar name had won....he had a mediocre swim, incredible bike split, and good run spit to win. Some guy named Steve Tilford....I wondered how the guy managed to bike that fast and why I had never heard of him before? Was this his first one? Where did he come from?....

Later I learned Tilford was a pro cyclist dabbling in triathlon and it all made sense....

He used to come up from Topeka Kansas and ski the Birkie and finish high in the field..I always wondered how much snow time he actually got to perform that well....

he was a true endurance multisporter......RIP
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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [iank] [ In reply to ]
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Thanks for sharing that.
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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [JustinNorCal] [ In reply to ]
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Very tragic--RIP. A little more detail from Bicycling.com:

http://www.bicycling.com/racing/former-professional-cyclist-steve-tilford-dies-in-car-crash?utm_campaign=Bicycling&utm_source=bicycling.com&utm_medium=newsletter&smartcode=YN_0024564325_0001606862&sha1hashlower=704f0fadc85551d6498a489d3ce45edfbaea7443&md5hash=3281137f4ca946cb87f9058e17df9375


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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [JustinNorCal] [ In reply to ]
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Sad and terrible news.

I have been a regular reader of Steve's blog for many years. I loved the passion the honesty and the outspokeness. He truly loved the sport of cycling.

There were even condolences via social media from Lance Armstrong - someone who Steve had gone after, and openly called-out many times in his blog over the years!


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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [tate] [ In reply to ]
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Ughhh, that's even more tragic, and just stupid luck. One accident becomes bigger crash when others domino into it. The twitter feed was full of tributes to Tilford, and if it means anything, what they say about your impact when you are gone...This was an incredible guy (never met him, only knew of the name). Thoughts and prayers to his friends and family.

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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [iank] [ In reply to ]
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iank wrote:
Even though this article is almost 20 years old, I think it captures Steve Tilford better than most anything else. The fact that he was such an active racer at his age after a pro career is evidence alone how much he really just loved the sport.

https://truebs.com/...ford-is-why-we-ride/


That was written in 1998 and describes Tilford as being in the "winter of his career."

Last year he raced in like 30-40 P12 races, usually finishing in single digits. Including some biggies, like USAC Road Nationals and the Joe Martin Stage Race (non-UCI version).

At 57 when he could have been dominating the 50+ masters races, he instead chose to race the fastest people he could, and usually gave them about all they could handle.

The rest of us could only hope our "winters" are handled half that gracefully.
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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [trail] [ In reply to ]
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Thank goodness he didn't jump in the 55+ stuff, but it would have been an honor to say I raced "with" him.
Guys I've raced with who knew him would, when thinking of not racing bc of conditions or fatigue or the course would ask, What would Tilly do?
Then they'd race.
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Re: Steve Tilford Passes Away [trail] [ In reply to ]
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At 57 when he could have been dominating the 50+ masters races, he instead chose to race the fastest people he could....

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Damn, that's nothing but respect right there. Because you always here the opposite, "why is a former pro allowed to race in my AG now that he's 10 years removed from racing...etc".



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