So a mate of mines just rang and I’ve had a good old chuckle at his expense. He’s newish to this mountain bike thing, just over a year riding and decided to try some different trails today. So has half a day and as he’s working in Sheffield goes to wharfcliffe woods. Gets lost and comes across a bloke tinkering outside his house. Over he goes and asks mr peat if he rides bikes at all and if so could he point him in the right direction 😆
Peaty apparently broke into a big fat grin and said yeah I ride a bit 😉

I had an experience similar to this when I was introduced to ‘Tracy’ whilst playing netball in the Malverns with the classic, ‘Tracy likes bikes too’. Cue embarrassingly attempt at conversation by me, coupled with the growing realisation that ‘Tracy’ was ‘Tracy Mosely’
SHAME ON ME!

many years ago my Dad asked a rowdy American and his party in a restaurant to pipe down and stop singing…….was only Bruce Springsteen !

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/gave-that-josh-bryceland-a-piece-of-my-mind-today

Also bumped into Rob Roskopp at Stainburn one evening, I got a photo, but posted it so many times on here now, it’s embarrassing.

Apparently my mate didn’t twig when he saw the box van with fox/SRAM/hope etc etc stickers all over it!! Got chatting and he apparently just said, your name isn’t Steve is it, cue another grin from Mr Peat. Reckoned he was a top bloke tho and really helpful!!

I got lost riding on Mt Tam. A group of hippies on bikes rode towards me. I asked for directions then realized the head honcho was Charlie Kelly!

It was a good job I found them before their smokeables stop. They could find no correlation between that and their increased crash frequency.

I visited a demo day at llandegla a few years ago and tried a few bikes out. I got back from a quick spin on a Meta 5.5 and gave it back to a girl on the Commencal stand. “what did you think?” she asked. ” I definitely wouldn’t choose one over a Heckler” I said, probably sounding like a right smartarse. “Any reason why?” said the guy stood next to her. Just as I was about to spout some shite explanation it dawned on me that it was Dan and Rachel Atherton! My eloquent answer was “dunno really” 🙂

i asked a famous german 4x rider if he needed help setting up his bike before a tour. mate i was working with explained that it was his mate Tschugg and he knew exactly what he was doing. nice bloke.

went out drinking with him in the evening. got very messy. good laugh.

I’ve met Neil Donoghue, he was sound.

I often ride in the woods behind nationwide in swindon with eddie kid and evil kenevil. They are a pair of blaggards.

Professor Heinz Wolff once asked me for directions

thread closed!

A guy called Mark from the Isle of Man once asked where I got my explosive sprinting speed from.

Brilliant stuff – saw him at north west mtb in cheadle building up the bikes for his SPS team – thoroughly down to earth chap

I bullied Tim Henman at school…

Riding through the trails in Perth (WA) once and bumped into a nice chap riding with his son, turned out it was Sam Hill with his dad! Had a good old chin wag and about bikes and riding the local trails. Stoked!

i was in a sushi resturant in soho when Hulk Hogan came in with his entourage and said “Hulkster wants sashimi”

😀 at Lifer! Guess he wasn’t a tiger even then!