'Riding bikes can change people’s lives': Widow of London cyclist killed by drunk driver hopes to change the track for youngsters

Fund set up after Jonathan Gales was killed by a drunk driver in Los Angeles in 2022

Jonathan Gales
(Image credit: supplied by family)

A woman from south London is in the process of setting up a charitable fund to benefit the local cycling community and boost the sports accessibility in the area for young people. 

Claire Pepper's husband, Jonathan Gales, was a well known figure in the south London cycling scene but was tragically killed by a drunk driver during a work visit to Los Angeles in November 2022, aged 36.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.