Picture the scene, i'm cycling to work, its a sunny day and coming from the cycling path towards the main road, I see a chap on a bike already on the main road. Once I get to the road, he's about 100m ahead. After a little guaging of the speed I'm thinking "yeah, i'm catching up"
a bit down the road, i'm behind him. he knows it. i pull out to pass him, say hello, nice day blah blah blah, and pull back in ... not really changing my speed and carry on. about 10 seconds later, he pulls up beside me and we start to have a blether.
At this point you do the obligatory thing ... check out the other bike.
Hmmmm, powder coat pink .... thats different, but a nice colour.
Steel lugged frame with really thin lugs .... thats different.
front mech shifter on the down tube, rear shifter as an sti ... thats different.
Really really narrow drop bars.
So i ask him "nice bike ... where did you get that ?"
" I built it ... myself "
Take another look at the bike ... pink, steel tubes, funny shifters, narrow drop bars, ah ha! little signature on the frame
Graeme Obree
"you're the name on the frame aren't you?"
"yup"
Doh! 
So we carry on down the rest of the road nattering. What a nice chap, mad keen like but good to talk to.
He did joke " At least you can genuinely say you caught up and passed me, but i said to myself there is no way you were going to drop me " 
It put a smile on my face the rest of the day.
) back in June. Full story of the day is here for anybody who's interested...
