It's not just an age thing. I'm probably older than anyone else on this thread but didn't really start cycling until maybe 11 years ago. Plus I'm just not into following any competitive sport.
OTOH I was probably aware of Mike Hall before many others and could tell you more about folk like Matthew Lee, Kurt Refsnider and Jay Petervary*. It just depends what "scene" you're into.
(*I suspect whitestone could too.)
I think i need a new sport.
Tell me more about this interregional bike polo whitestone...
I might just be older than you 😆 Rather oddly Jay Petervary's name popped into my head while out on my lunchtime walk.
If you are into "X" then it's likely that you'll know some or most of the names associated with that. If you aren't then unless you know them personally or they've become known outside their sport/niche it really is very unlikely that you recognise their name.
From past sports of mine could you say who these people are/were? (without Google): Simon Nadin, Jasmin Paris, Kilian Jornet, Andy Pollitt, Kenny Stuart, Dave MacLeod, Tejvan Pettinger.
If you can't, so what?
John Tomac? Didn't he design some bikes for PX, so presumably he's a niche industry insider like Brant?
Cool to get mentioned in same sentence as JT.
Nice video on him just came out. He’s even riding a bike me and him designed together.
, Tejvan Pettinger
Nice bloke but scarily skinny. Don't think he goes round punching people in the stomach though, not very transcendental. I "know" him as he won the hill climb I was organising a few times.
