Saw Rachel Atherton at the petrol station yesterday

Manon Carpenter passed me on the motorway in her van

But then so did the single track mag boys

tramp’s hanky’.

❓

Seen Brendan Fairclough at Woburn a fair few times, Sam Pilgrim as well. That’s about it I think.

edit – oh actually I once followed that chromag hardtail guy (Jinya is it?) down Dirt Merchant at Whistler and couldn’t keep up despite me having 180mm travel at each end 🙁

just stared uncomfortably long, before driving off

🙂 would’ve done the same

She probably wouldn’t have been that interested in my bike

We often bump into Josh Bryceland on our/his local trails around Lyme Park.

The ones featured in his ‘comeback’ video where he talks of all his skills coming from those woods.

Funny – I think he took all the skills from that wood as there don’t seem to be any left for me.

(I suppose, given his recent performances, I should mention that he’s often with Sam Dale too)

Chris Hoy taught me how to ride on the track, at the Chris Hoy Velodrome.

I had coffee with Hannah Barnes last month. And dinner with Curtis Keen.

They’re all nice, normal people, who happen to be better than average* at riding bikes.

*slight under-exageration

Yeah yeah yeah but they weren’t in a petrol station, were they? I win.

Funny – I think he took all the skills from that wood as there don’t seem to be any left for me.

😆

I once saw Richard E Grant shouting at his mother in Uzes market.

tramp’s hanky’.

Didn’t know it was called that, but I bet it’s holding one nostril and spurting out the other.. 😆 Hannah is my kinda lady!

Tug from Home and Away borrowed a phono lead converter off me once, promised to give it back in the afternoon….

And did as well.

Tug? You know Tug?

Ok then on our last trip to Antur Stiniog a couple of months ago we had
Josh Bryceland (on his first DH ride since breakage)
Danny Hart
& Sam Dale

All lovely lads, just like everyone else but a million times faster and didn’t faff about getting on or off the van. Van stopped and they were gone in seconds.

Sold Adrian Chiles a bike once… True story! It was 2001 and he hadn’t presented a football programme yet, much less boffed a co-presenter. At the time I only knew who he was cos being a student I often watched working lunch before getting round to Neighbours and Doctors…

I queued behind Christine Ohurugu at a burger van once. She ordered a hotdog with onions and tomato sauce. Make you own conclusions from that.

Next we need to find out: does Manon Carpenter go to the supermarket?

Don’t know, but I know Everyone (the stw forum user) and I have both had separate encounters of bumping into her on trains.

scruff – Member

Ok then on our last trip to Antur Stiniog

When we went to Antur, Danny Hart was there and by lunctime you could see he was just done with being pestered. So I took the seat beside him on the bus, and just left the poor bugger alone 😆

(though, to be fair if I didn’t want to be pestered, I’d not be wearing a brightly coloured strip with DANNY HART written on it, to be fair. Everything he owned had his name written on it- his phone backdrop was a picture of himself with DANNY HART along the bottom, in case he forgot)

My dad was having a slash in a hotel in Vegas and there was a Kenny Rogers impersonator in the wash room pretending to be Kenny Rogers to everyone who cared to listen… then in walked Kenny Rogers.

Awkward.

when I was about 4 I had a birthday party in McDonalds in Rochdale, Ronald McDonald was there & he did some magic tricks.

Couple of years later Ronald has quit and is now called Peter Simon on Saturday morning show Going Live!

I don’t think any petrol stations were involved

Oh and Tom Jones was in Schiphol airport bar once, he had no socks on. I was sat on the floor waiting for some mates on a different flight.

again, I don’t think any petrol stations were involved

Saw Rachel Atherton at the petrol station yesterday

Was she pumped?

I had a brief chat with Chris Boardman in whilst waiting for a very delayed flight at Liverpool Airport a couple of years ago. I was going to PPdS, he was going to the TdF.

Also, I walked into Peter Bowles on a Pelican Crossing in Nottingham once.

I’m glad I met Chris Boardman, because prior to that my rubbing shoulders with celebrities story was ****.

I forgot about the time time Lennox Lewis pushed in front of me when queuing for a Burger King in Las Vegas airport. He was lucky I had other things on my mind or I would have kicked his ass.

Steve Peat gave me 4 cans of Stella Cidre for helping fix his bike.

Harry_the_Spider – Member

My dad was having a slash in a hotel in Vegas and there was a Kenny Rogers impersonator in the wash room pretending to be Kenny Rogers to everyone who cared to listen… then in walked Kenny Rogers.

That’s brilliant, cheers!

A good few years ago I sat round a table in Murcia with Rob Kitchin, Tim Ponting, Glyn o’Brien, Barrie Clark, Steve Worland and that photographer chap Seb Rogers, conversation was good, food was crap

I once stood behind ‘The Ginger One’ from Harry Potter in a queue at Spar in Dolgellau!

He was very scruffy.

He got out of a pimped matt black Range Rover. Not sure if it was a diesel or not though.

Hannah Barnes once bent over in front of me to pick up my lift pass I’d just dropped at the Fort William cafe. I really wanted to thank her by straight up bending one in, but thought better of it.

I’m spending the night with The Nick Craig, this saturday.

So are a few others though.

#QECPday&nightenduro

at the Hamsterly NDH race a few weeks back, my brother dropped his timing chip on a run so had to go back up and start it again. Danny Hart was up there waiting to go when he got there. They had a bit of a natter then
the marshal asked my bro “Hi, would you like to go before or after Mr Hart”
tough choice!

On the subject, has anyone found a timing chip at Hammers?

I once sold David ‘Kid’ Jensen a pair of padded pants.

Hannah Barnes once bent over in front of me to pick up my lift pass I’d just dropped at the Fort William cafe

Ahh, the old ‘damn, I’ve dropped my lift pass’ trick, works every time. Classic.

By bending over, was it a full touch-her-toes type move, or the more subtle (and boring) bend zee knees like a laydeee crouch-down ?

I’m spending the night with The Nick Craig

The Nicest Man In Mountain Biking?

Goeff Capes in the greengrocers. Carried two bags of potatoes at once.

I served Joseph Marcell (Geoffrey the Butler in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air) at the bike shop I was working at. He was asking about road pedals – he used LOOK and was wondering if there were any better alternatives. I don’t know if he drove a diesel (probably not, it was 1996)

I was out biking in the Peak a few weekends ago and saw Rob Hayles on a skateboard. Just wondering when Rapha are going to start doing skate wear.

My sister knows Kerry Bason. Consequently she pops up on my facebook feed regularly.

Late at night, whilst tripping on acid and on a mission for Rizla, I saw Ray Reardon in petrol station. Very surreal experience.

though, to be fair if I didn’t want to be pestered, I’d not be wearing a brightly coloured strip with DANNY HART written on it, to be fair. Everything he owned had his name written on it- his phone backdrop was a picture of himself with DANNY HART along the bottom, in case he forgot)

😆 😆

I once had a chat with Chris Boardman. Me: Still can’t bunny hop then, Chris? Him: £®¥€ off! (He didn’t say that but really should have.)

There was a diesel van about 100m away, and the nearest petrol station probably about 600m.

I once served Sharon Davies when I worked at MacDonalds

I once minced past Steve Peat on a DH track in Greno Woods, and asked him if there was any better XC riding in the area 😆

I was in the same cable car as Steve Peat aaaaaagggeeessss ago in Morzine (actually the Les Gets eggs, but let’s not be pedantic about these things) we talked about Hope minis, and then sheffield for a bit, and gardening!

I’m pretty sure the engine that runs the eggs is diesel powered.

Bumped into Andy Ruffell when I was a kid. My brother, a bit of a fanboy, got his Mongoose jersey signed.

Jolly nice chap

Miss Atherton was mostly fuelled by Red Bull when I met her the other week… she helped me secure 12th place at the Red Bull, Wings for Life, eliminator running race.

1200 people started out at Silverstone, we ran around the track once then set off into the surrounding countryside. After half an hour a car, driven by David Coulthard, set off along the same route and once DC caught you in the elminator car, that was it, your race over.

So I get to 36km and I can see the chase car behind me in the distance but between me and the car is our Heroine and her brother Gee riding road bikes in front of it (it was there job to get people to remember to run on the left hand side of the road, so as not to get in the way) Gee passes me with no rear tyre on his bike !?!.. t’s making a right old racket… but he don’t seem to mind the uncomfortableness. Then Rachel pulls alongside, after 2 hours 40 mins into the race there’s no one else around so I get chatting to her… tell her I’m a MTBer ask her about her next race etc. But then she telling me “Watch out there are a few runners trying to stay in front of the car”…. WTF there wasn’t a soul about 5 mins ago that’s why I’d taken my foot of the gas and was slowing up, happy with my position. “It’s OK” she tell me, “the car has caught them and it’s now 100m behind you”…. “Oh hold up ! There still a guy in front of the car and he’s closing on you !! ”

I’m not having that I tell Rach (we are close like that now, she calling me Rosey and everything 🙂 ) and I wait until he sprints past me to then lunch my counter sprint…. and with Rachel cheering me on I take him easily… she impressed.

“Well done” she shouts, as she continues on, “the best sprint finish we’ve seen today”

That was the highlight of my day…. I wanted to get to marathon distance before getting caught. But the course was up and down up and down, only the top three got over 42k.