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good man pedro...

I've met the guy when he was a kid maybe 20 years ago, we said nothing but a few words to each other back then, I am not a person he's close to. I really don't feel confortable asking him questions just out of curiosity, Pete was in hospital after a heart attack so the medical specifics of it aren't really important to me. I have asked him to give Pete's wife my number, in case she needs a friend to talk to over whatever it might be.

RIP Old friend. You will never be forgotten mate.

Unfortunately heart attacks often happen in close succession, he had multiple stents put in which is an indicator for congenital heart disease, I suspect he went into arrhythmia unexpectedly after they moved him out of ICU, that’s the most common cause of death after a heart attack.

Indeed...

@Pedro once things have settled down a bit for Pete's son would you be able to ask him what happened, i'm sure everyone here as well as myself would also like to know

Made me laugh with a tear in my eye …

What a shock .. thought he was on the mend , gutted as I’m sure we all are , rest in peace Pete , my internet buddy

Oh no, that's such a shock! Please pass on our condolences to his family @Pedro.

No fucking way this cant be true

Yep let the dust settle a little, there will be plenty of time to plan and sort stuff out.

I don’t have admin access or control of the domain name, software and hosting, without that I can do nothing in the long term. I could set another place up at some point but we would lose everything here, as I say, this is not the time to think about this.

Might I suggest that we should probably increase number of people on the team running the forum just to help out so it's not all just sat on 2 people's shoulders

I'll second this statement as I'm sure a few others would too, I think we owe it to Pete to keep things going

Indeed, he was great at making these run, had great pleasure in providing a place for a few people spread all over the world to meet. And in fact no other forums have the same kind of vibe, we did share our dislike for a couple of members (I'm glad she's gone, he wasn't) but all he really wanted for the place was to keep it alive. I know nothing of internet and computers and servers, but I know you do, so now that you're running it please remember that there's a few people here who would like to help with costs if there's any involved, I would.

We did that for some of my nans friends who couldn't attend

A video link to a funeral?

Do you really think you could get a video link to work?

Agreed they have more than enough to get on with without further questions from us on details. I'd like to know about the funeral and if there could be a video link to it

Thanks for the offer Pedro but to be honest I’m not sure I could get along anyway, I was just thinking it would be nice to know when the service might be so I could spend a bit of time quietly thinking.

We started on whatsapp instead on normal forum messages because he wanted a live video chat to figure out how to take the sidecases off on his GS1200. He knew they came off because he saw the dealer doing it, but those two differently coloured levers were a step too far once by himself

I sent Pete a Whatsapp, same as ever, when I knew he got taken to hospital, and he replied. Then the next day, yesterday I asked how he was doing and there was no reply. I didn’t bother him because he probably needed the rest and I knew his son was flying in. Then last night I started to worry because he usually replies, so this morning I asked if he was better and his son Scott replied to me saying Peter had passed yesterday. I asked for no further details. In times like these I choose to leave people be and managed their affairs. Scott is now probably dealing with Pete’s company, his brother, Allison ( who is a jewel), and I prefer to not add to that burden. from the timing I assume his funeral is either today or tomorrow, I can ask for you if you want to attend.

Today been mostly erecting this thing. The frame was already up just sheeting it today.

He is reported to have 300 million in the bank so has no need to do anything if he doesn't want to. But he will.