Ken Kifer - RIP

Colin said:

Ken Kifer who was a long time cycling advocate from Alabama died after being hit while riding his
bike, 6 miles from his home by a drunk driver. The drunk driver had been reportedly released from
jail for a previous drunken driving offence just four hours earlier.

For those not familiar with Ken's work, you may want to look at his website, which has excellent
information:

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We will miss you Ken!

Here'a a post form the bicyclingadvocacy NG on Yahoo: --Karen M.

< I'm Ken Kifer's daughter-in-law. I came to this group hoping to get word to the online biking
community about his death, but it seems that the news has already reached it. Nathan and I very much
want to keep his website up, but as we both tend toward Ludditism neither of us knows how to do
this. I noticed one post (I'm sorry, I've forgotten the name of the poster,) who offered to host it.
We would love it if someone could continue his site and legacy.

Funeral arrangements have not yet been decided. We're not sure whether to bury him in a plot his
father purchased him a few years ago, or to scatter his ashes in the woods he so dearly loved.
Arrangements are being made through Callyer Butler Funeral Home in Gasden AL.

I'm in shock, and don't know what else to write at this point. Ken was such a wonderful person...

Please feel free to send this message to whoever cared about Ken and would like to read it. I know
he had many friends on the internet, and I have no way to know how to contact them.

Tanya Brecht (I kept my maiden name) <

To the family of Ken Kifer- I didn't know Ken personally, although we did exchange e-mails once or
twice. His postings on the newsgroups were shining examples of clarity, wit and good manners. To you
I say, may God comfort you among all those who mourn. Please know that you are not alone in mourning
Ken's death.

Yours, Yitzhak Ben-Moshe

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Quoted message said:

Colin said:

Ken Kifer who was a long time cycling advocate from Alabama died after being hit while riding his
bike, 6 miles from his home by a drunk driver. The drunk driver had been reportedly released from
jail for a previous drunken driving offence just four hours earlier.

For those not familiar with Ken's work, you may want to look at his website, which has excellent
information:

kenkifer.combikepagesOpen ↗

We will miss you Ken!

Here'a a post form the bicyclingadvocacy NG on Yahoo: --Karen M.

< I'm Ken Kifer's daughter-in-law. I came to this group hoping to get word to the online biking
community about his death, but it seems that the news has already reached it. Nathan and I very
much want to keep his website up, but as we both tend toward Ludditism neither of us knows how to
do this. I noticed one post (I'm sorry, I've forgotten the name of the poster,) who offered to host
it. We would love it if someone could continue his site and legacy.

Wow, that's an impressive web site, and I hope someone successfully keeps it going.

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by Mark Millar.

Tanya and the family...

I am so sorry. Every time something like this happens, it's an outrage. Please accept my
sympathies...even though I did not know Ken, as a fellow bike person, my heart goes out to him.

Trudi

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My condolences would be feeble, so I will allow John Donne to speak for me:

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If
a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if
a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved
in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

I, for one, feel the world is lesser, if only for the wit and wisdom we have lost.

Rick

May the One who creates peace in the heavens create peace for us, and for all humankind, and let us
say, Amen.

With sorrow,

Claire Petersky ([email hidden]) Home of the meditative cyclist:
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I have been inspired by Ken Kifer's work. His web site is a thing of beauty and a labour of love; I believe his life and works as chronicled on his web site have inspired and motivated many. May God rest his soul.

Ata R. Khan