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I created this topic to allow people to post their tributes to Dr Alex Moulton. Please feel free to express messages of condolence, stories, memories, pictures or any other thoughts.

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[Steven Brandist]

The man maybe gone… but he’s left something for us.

[Steven Brandist]

Alex at the Moulton Bicycle Club meeting 2011.

[David Sharpe]

I only met Dr Moulton once, while out riding my TSR 30 on a long, wet audax ride. Near Brampton, a small car pulled in ahead of me and two men got out to ask about my bike, and how well it was going. I was amazed to find out that one of them was the man himself – he took a photo and we shook hands.

I don’t think I’m the only person to appreciate Alex Moulton’s continued interest in the wonderful bicycles that have appeared over the decades, and I consider myself privileged to have met him in person.

Dave

[Ian]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/9735676/Alex-Moulton.html

[Ian]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/10/alex-moulton

[john bartlett]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/83752362@N00/8261287127/in/photostream
for fifty years of cycling joy, thank you.
jb

[Werner Crombach]

I am sad. I admired Alex as the engineer of our bikes, but I also liked him as a
character. What a nice, impressive man, even when be became weak and frail.
Werner

[Alexander Johnston]

Amazing how anyone can be so talented. He thought outside the box and created something new, beautiful and efficient in the F frame and Spaceframe bicycles for generations to enjoy.
He also swam against the tide and kept manufacturing operations in the UK which has special resonance today given the need to rebalance the economy.
Alex

[Pandora]

This is sad news indeed, I hope he did not suffer.

As members of the Club, some of whom have owned his bicycles for almost 50 years, how shall we collectively show our respect for him?

[richard carter]

So sorry to hear the news. Alex was a great man: one of the things I admired him most for was that he was an engineer not a designer. Of course the design was important for him, but it had to follow the function, not the other way round.

Goodbye Alex, it was a privilege to have known you and to have ridden some of your bicycles.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8486/8264757648_02ec4cd5e4_c_d.jpg

[Ian]

From the BBC West news 11/12/12
https://vimeo.com/55427175
(love the comment of the presenter at the end…..)

BBC Wiltshire breakfast radio 11/12/12
https://soundcloud.com/ian-kew/tribute-to-alex-moulton

and on the BBC website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-20667842

[David Balkwill]

His work on the bicycle was probably one of the things in he background during my childhood that led me onto he path of product design. His work in the early years was exemplary. The observation of the change in living styles, and the arrival of other small wheeled vehicles combined to get him asking the right questions, and then his technical knowledge and love of innovation made it possible. The spaceframe designs that followed may be better in terms of weight and performance, but lack the delightful strength and simplicity of he F frame, and put the product into an elitist price bracket.
But what incredible long term obstination and dedication to that initial idea.
I raise my glass to him.

[Pandora]

I thoroughly recommend his autobiography a” A lifetime in Engineering” his enquiring mind led him into so many areas, his famous bicycle was one of many arrows in his quiver.

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