{"id":199012,"date":"2025-10-14T08:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199012\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:46:06","slug":"victoria-pendleton-pays-tribute-to-racing-cyclist-dad-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199012\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Pendleton pays tribute to racing cyclist dad max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I certainly wouldn&#8217;t have achieved anything without him, and I am thankful for all I have experienced as a result,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pendleton announced that he had died, aged 80, on 11 October, after being diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s disease and Parkinson&#8217;s dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As an amateur cyclist, he had been known for hill climbs and grass-track cycling events, becoming the National 8km Grass-Track Champion in 1987.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1990, he began organising grass-track racing at Mildenhall Cycling Club, Suffolk, and continued until 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Club chairman Mark Burchett said: &#8220;He is going to be a big loss from the Club, having been such an active member since 1980. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Max wasn&#8217;t just a very competitive rider, but off the bike was a gentleman, and we shall also miss the very enjoyable club-rides around his Bedfordshire home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I certainly wouldn&#8217;t have achieved anything without him, and I am thankful for all I have experienced as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-199012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}