Famous Cyclists You've Met
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cherrybomb
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Carlos the Slackal":2opefvaq said:cherrybomb":2opefvaq said:I'm from Shropshire. No one famous comes from Shropshire.
I beg to differ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire#Famous_people
Darwin, Wilfred Owen, and lest we forget, T'Pau......!
I was being ironic.
...and you've not even mentioned any of the cyclists, or members of famous rock bands
cherrybomb
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Oh, and we don't mention T'Pau round here! :?
I once got incredibly drunk with Oliver Reed in a pub in Liverpool.
I'm not sure if he ever had a bike though so does that count?
I once got incredibly drunk with Oliver Reed in a pub in Liverpool.
I'm not sure if he ever had a bike though so does that count?
development_cycle
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cherrybomb":3ggj7tbu said:
Does it count??? That just about tops it buddy !
cherrybomb
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development_cycle":2fx8zs3a said:
It almost topped me, that's for sure. The guy could drink like a whole shoal of fish! :shock:
BTW. You still after a black LX hub? I've got a parallax one gathering dust here.
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Victoria Pendelton - met her out on a local ride. I was wearing my Retrobike top and asked if she would swap it for her team GB top. She politley said no thanks. Probably the only ride where I forgot to take my phone so didn't get a picture.
Others I've met - Gary Fisher at the first MM in 1998. Keith Bontrager at a trade show. David Baker naked at NPS at Newnham. My Mrs is the one to ask, she met loads when she used to work for Oakley.
Others I've met - Gary Fisher at the first MM in 1998. Keith Bontrager at a trade show. David Baker naked at NPS at Newnham. My Mrs is the one to ask, she met loads when she used to work for Oakley.
grahame
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To paraphrase the late, great Brian Clough, "That joe Breeze, he's met me you know."
I had a great week in Moab at the Fat Tyre Festival in (I think) 1993.
It started on the shuttle bus to one of the guided rides when I sat next to an Irish guy who was working for Alsop/softride and got chatting, then he saw that I was riding my Breezer. The next day I was riding past their stand and he called me over and said that Joe and a few others had just gone for a "play on slickrock" and that I might find them if I went up there. So I set off at full pace, and was passing a group of fairly tasty riders on the steep part of the climb up to the tip when I looked across and saw the rider next to me was on a Breezer Beemer. "Nice bike" opened the conversation. The rider was Joe. We talked about his bike, my bike and his view that Manitous were the right fork for on his bikes if not using the stock rigid forks. Then Joe introduced me to the others in the group including "Tom (Ritchey), Otis (Guy), Scott (Nicol) " and a few others.
We rode up to Slickrock and out to the halfpipe, which I plucked up courage (just about) to roll into, whilst these "Older" guys jumped into and out of it, going faster and bigger until Tom broke the beam on his bike. Tom and I then rode back into town together.
The next day, I was again riding into town past the Alsop booth when Tom called me over "Hey, Grahame, do you have a spoke wrench?" I did. So it was coffee and cookies whilst Tom Ritchey used my Spokey to true the wheels on his replacement demo bike. I was then invited to ride Amasa Back with the gang. This led to one of my all-time favourite bike memories: Being in the middle of a through-and-off pace-line ride along Kane Creek Road out to Amasa Back with Joe, Tom, Scott, Otis, and several other "names".
The final day I was in town, a mechanic friend of mine introduced me to Alison Sydor over breakfast. She's cute
Oh, yes I got a "Nice Bike" from Keith Bontrager when I was riding my OR Race at a Beastway and he'd turned up a year or so before those b'stards nicked Eastway to be a car park for the junkies' sports day in 2012.
I had a great week in Moab at the Fat Tyre Festival in (I think) 1993.
It started on the shuttle bus to one of the guided rides when I sat next to an Irish guy who was working for Alsop/softride and got chatting, then he saw that I was riding my Breezer. The next day I was riding past their stand and he called me over and said that Joe and a few others had just gone for a "play on slickrock" and that I might find them if I went up there. So I set off at full pace, and was passing a group of fairly tasty riders on the steep part of the climb up to the tip when I looked across and saw the rider next to me was on a Breezer Beemer. "Nice bike" opened the conversation. The rider was Joe. We talked about his bike, my bike and his view that Manitous were the right fork for on his bikes if not using the stock rigid forks. Then Joe introduced me to the others in the group including "Tom (Ritchey), Otis (Guy), Scott (Nicol) " and a few others.
We rode up to Slickrock and out to the halfpipe, which I plucked up courage (just about) to roll into, whilst these "Older" guys jumped into and out of it, going faster and bigger until Tom broke the beam on his bike. Tom and I then rode back into town together.
The next day, I was again riding into town past the Alsop booth when Tom called me over "Hey, Grahame, do you have a spoke wrench?" I did. So it was coffee and cookies whilst Tom Ritchey used my Spokey to true the wheels on his replacement demo bike. I was then invited to ride Amasa Back with the gang. This led to one of my all-time favourite bike memories: Being in the middle of a through-and-off pace-line ride along Kane Creek Road out to Amasa Back with Joe, Tom, Scott, Otis, and several other "names".
The final day I was in town, a mechanic friend of mine introduced me to Alison Sydor over breakfast. She's cute
Oh, yes I got a "Nice Bike" from Keith Bontrager when I was riding my OR Race at a Beastway and he'd turned up a year or so before those b'stards nicked Eastway to be a car park for the junkies' sports day in 2012.
TheGreenRabbit
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From the cycaling world - Josie Dew / Lance A / Missy Giove
From the tri world - Scott Tinley/Dave Scott
From the tri world - Scott Tinley/Dave Scott
