David Duffield (20 May 1931[1] – 21 February 2016) was best known as a commentator on British Eurosport working mainly on the channel's professional cycling coverage for many years.
[3][4][5] Duffield was born in Wolverhampton to a nurse mother and architect father, in a family with four children.
He started his working life in advertising, before being conscripted into the British Army, where he rose to the rank of sergeant, and was introduced to cycling by another soldier.
He went on to become the marketing man who made the small wheeled Moulton bicycle a household name, combining his professional work with his cycling exploits when he set a record for riding between Cardiff and London on a Moulton, completing a distance of 162 miles in six hours and 42 minutes.
[6] He subsequently worked in several senior roles within TI–Raleigh, where he was involved in establishing the successful TI–Raleigh racing team,[6] as well as for other British cycle manufacturers.