If one were brain-dead enough to believe that in order to be verifiable, something must be available on a website which is authoritative, independent and also does not support or endorse the subject, then yes. But that's not what WP:V says. The fact that he was recognised by CTC is trivially verifiable,as is the age and stature of CTC as an organisation, as is the standing of Sheldon Brown as a cycling expert, verified from reliable independent sources. An American bicycle mechanic warranted an obituary in The Times of London. Doesn't that suggest to you that perhaps the cyclists in the discussion are right and the naysayers are, to use a technical term, wrong? Guy ()