Searching through the web of old times and find this. My mentor and second dad in life. A champion in many eyes. Y O L O - dont forget it We will miss you Greg Wilson. Unfortunately I have been informed of Greg Wilson passing away, after a long fight with a brain tumour, on Sunday 11th December, 2005. Greg was a downhill Masters rider based in Blaxland with Western Sydney Mountain Bike Club and some sponsorship from Blackman Bicycles. He started riding in 1998. He will always be remembered by his immaculate white Bear bike, practicing Old Bathurst Road, although Greg started on a Craftworks HRC6, then to a Black Giant then the Bear and finally an Orange. Greg was very particular about his bikes and always took great care to look after then, he even walked back up the Megalong Valley track, as the trailers may scratch his bike on the rough road. Greg acted as mentor to pro rider Eddie Piddington during his downhill career, taking Eddie to races and practicing with him. There was nothing Greg would not have a go at on a downhill track, besides the Old Bathurst Road gap! However, he surprised all the younger riders by taking the Ourimbah short track road gap. Greg achieved a third in the 2004 World Masters Games in Masters 5 in Canada and finished in the top 10 in the 2003 World Masters Games in Masters 4. He was National Masters 3+ Champion and Series winner and a State Champion and Series winner in Masters 3+. Greg moved to Queensland in 2003 and continued racing and in the 2004–5 Nationals winning the Queensland Round and the Eildon National Champion. He was still racing when diagnosed with the brain tumour. Thank you Greg, and our sympathy to Jill his wife.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:38:31 +0000
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