Your tenuous links to the bike industry……

Inspired by the Top-Tenuous slot on Chris Evans (and a touch of boredom….!)

We have a lot of folk on here with direct links, brant, mike at dialled, bike shop workers etc……
but, who's link is the most tenuous –

Who make the stickers for Specialised, whose mum once babysat Wiggo?

Me – I used to work for the folk wot make the braided hose for Goodridge and others….. heck, I had to turn down an enquiry from Hope, they wanted a smaller bore, MD did not want to tool up for it…

I sold Scary Spice a bike which later featured on the front page of the Sun after she kicked her husband out, predictable headline, "On yer bike!".

Plenty more where that came from….!

I got a cheap ibis from Scott Nicol around the time it went bust…

My surname is FOX!

My brother lives in America which is the same country as the guy who hit Rach Atherton, (as***le that he is)

Sat next to Brant at a business forum.

was the forum in a large shed? or did you make use of the garden furniture?

I have spent money with most online bike shops, every local bike shop to me, and a lot of other peoples LBS too…. Isnt that enough???

I used to work for a company who were approached by a company to deal with the tyres for there bikes that were being used by a big delivery company. Despite me saying it was an easy contract the boss turned it down, and at the time I didn't have the rescources to take on the contract myself.

my company is a very large supplier of Styrene butadiene rubber, which is used heavily in tyre manufacturer, and we list the likes of Conti, Michelin, etc. as customers.

I keep trying to get our reps to get me some samples but so far no luck. Then I'd practically be a sponsored rider!

My sister has taken one of Chris Boardman's kids canoeing.

me Dad was Harry Hall's teammate and friend.

I have an STW Subscription…

S.

I was at Free Ride Spain when Adrian Carter was also staying there testing some of his new bikes, oh and he cooked me dinner too

I once did some graphic design work for a mountain bike company that never got off the ground.

I bought an inner tube while standing next to Barry Hoban; he was repping at the time.

For the last two weeks I have been mainly drinking…

Was a staff writer / researcher the now defunkt cycle industry mag in the early 90s (only for 6 months or so). Also got a co-credit in MTBpro for an bit looking into the possiblity of trail centres on FC land. Writen in 1994, published 96 and faily much bang on with all predictions.

Vague link to Chipps – had to get him to take some pics for me at an RJ Chicken show type thing as I didnt have a camera with me at time.

Strange full circle link – it was reading Carlton Reids off road read bit in odessey magazine that got me into biking in the first place. Odd that I ended up working for him.

or if its really vague you want – cleaned the bike, at bristol bike fest, of the other half of the man who co-owns the bike shop that sold robbie williams his bike

Used to run the company that provided the temporary seats etc for the downhill champs at fort william

i rode with dialled mike BEFORE he started dialled bikes

ooh, ooh, just thought of a better one.

I was riding in the alps (with dialled mike) in 2005 when we bumped into a teenage kid who was riding Steve Peat's personalised 4x bike from the previous season.

Apparently his dad somehow knew Peaty. I have a picture somewhere but can't find it at the moment.

My girlfriend bought a second hand frame that appeared in the manufacturer's catalogue circa 2001.

Chipp's girlfriend felt a bit tired during SITS the other year and went to sleep in my tent.

My girlfriend is a cycle instructor.

I used to have Steve Peats pedals on my bike, sold to me by Andrew Kyffyn, who put my first cleats into my cycling shoes and who sold me my first pair of riser bars before they became fashionable.

Oh yes I'm one of the female models in the 'white peak V graphics book'.

I spoke to Ernesto Colnago on the phone once – back in 1990.

Had a coffee in a service station with Robert Millar, who said he liked my Oakley shoes.

I own Joey Gough's old 4X bike.

I supplied the electrical stuff to SAAB at MM and it was pure coincedence that I was soloing it that year. So they paid for the stuff and paid for me to stay a week near Eastnor to help them lay out the Chill zone, and we drove the then new SAAB Sportswagon through the 4X4 stuff to get it muddy for the demo.

I know two people with their own shops in Milton Keynes and a director of a London shop.

Took the MBR guys around our patch for the Killer Loop, and appeared on four pages of that MBR.

Had Jody Crawfords canti's on my cross bike. And Nigel Deans ex race wheels on my first ever road bike.

But my favourite and most teneous is that I rode with a guy that is the current USA Masters road race champion and at the time he trained with Hincapie. I love that one.

i biked in costa rica earlier this year with wade simmons – pretty useful on a bike he is to!

One of my friends works for VW and almost sold a shiny new van to Silverfish (bike distributors) but then didn't as it was fairly trashed in a freak golf-ball sized hailstorm outside the factory in Wolfsburg that wiped out millions of euros of stock. (*waves to Richie*).

And I work with the mum of up-and-coming xc star Carla Haines.

Tenuous enough? 😀

oh and Tinker Juarez once rode past my house (2 miles away from Newnham) whist he was 'loosening up' for the xc worlds years ago.
And I stayed in Bryn Bettws chalets at Afan next door to Rachel Atherton and Tracey Mosely a few years ago. My mates didn't believe it was her so i showed them that month's issue of Dirt which had a big photo of Rachel on the podium as Junoir World Champion at Fort William.

We borrowed a bowl from them. (Ironical 8) )

Used to race against Jeremy Hunt.
Got filmed by Anglia tonight as they thought I was one of the guys at the MK Bowl that was about to do the Milk Race, must have been the new kit and deep tan?

The British Singlespeed Female Champion is at this moment making some dinner for me.

The first time a took E was with the designer for a quite well known downhilly type clothing company.

Zangolin wins it so far for me if the conversation had nothing to do with bikes.

During Mountain Mayhem back in 2001, I was having difficulties with my rear dropouts, so on seeing that my bike was upside down (at the side of the race track), Gary Fisher shouted over, 'do you need any help'. I stupidly said 'no'.

i have been on this thread with zangolin who in 1990…

Guy kestervan used to work at my LBS..
And Charlie Wegalius or however you spell it used to buy all his kit from there.

My brother used to work in Biketreks.
And Nick Craig taught the chicklets to bunnyhop!

I've actually been out riding with Hora!