For what it's worth and fully prepared to be shot down...........
I feel it would be a great shame if this article wasn't fitted to the editors criteria and published in Arrivee so that the whole of AUK's current/future membership can know and understand the exploits of some of our most inspirational ancestors.
It gives some continuity and context to where we are now as well as making sense of achievement records on the website which otherwise are just a list of meaningless name's.
The editor was appointed by our membership and so to get published we have to fit articles within his guidelines.
Having been an audaxer back to the days of the characters in this article I am fine with the nicknames etc but am also nowadays extremely aware that our membership is very different in character and much much larger than it was in those days. It is after all a pretty long time ago now in respect of generations of riders coming through.
When I run events nowadays there are always so many new faces which is absolutely brilliant for our organisation. I know full well virtually none of those newcomers will have ever heard any of the nicknames especially up here in the dark North and so for them the inclusion of these won't enhance the article but rather leave them totally baffled and maybe not even finishing reading it, which is then a really great shame as it's a splendid article.
I do hope to see it published in a future Arrivee