[Closed] Your tenuous links to the bike industry......

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...

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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 [i][b]if[/b][/i] 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!

My Mother-in-laws vicar is Sims dad (i think)

i win.

My brother's a surgeon and one of the theatre nurses he works with is Will Longden's mum.

A colleague's mum knows Mark Cavendish's mum.

They're my most tenuous connections 😉

Oh - and Tinker Juarez once stole a friend of mine's pump!

Steve Worland from MBUK's brother lives down my road and I spoke to him once at our Queen's Diamond Jubilee Street Party in 2002.

He looks a bit like Steve

I baby sat the lads that own:

http://www.18bikes.co.uk/index.php

[i]Ride[/i] once published a letter inwhich I was very rude about [i]MBUK[/i].

I used to work with dave hindes' sister in law. She told me could get me a 'good' discount on one of his bikes. In the end, after much fannying about, I was offered fifteen quid off a two grand bike - laughed my fat yorkshire arse off!

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

My old landlord is Ian Fagan's brother who was a pro-racer back in the 80's, most famous for having a punch-up after being knocked off in the Milk Race in London with the Houses of Parliament in the back ground with the chap who knocked him off!!

my girlfriend rubbed chris hoys' thighs

I made Dave Hemming a cup of tea in my LBS

My surname is moulton

and the company I work for prints the boxes for Hope. I did the artwork

we also do the bike boxes for Cotic

I go to barbecues with David Rand (ex British road champion) and his family
I see the blokes from Dirt mag in the sandwich van queue

I own one of joey mclaughlin's old Ever Ready/Halfords cycling tops from the 8o's 😯

And i won a MTB race wearing it.

my mate accidentally walked in on Rachel Atherton in the pub toilets in Morzine a couple of weeks ago.

Fantastic! - LOL, thought this thread had died a death overnight but no.....

Some serious tenuosity (new word) in there!!

I overtook Mick Ives on a climb at a race in the FOD once, okay I had a better line and once he got round the corner he rocketed past me!! 😆

Once did a road race in Barnoldswick, Lancashire - 1982. That's about 8 years before Hope started making stuff there.

the guy who services my car (and i ride with occasionally), his mate is the importer for blackspire..

tenuous enough?

Ruminant, where is your box company based? I might be looking for a new box supplier shortly as my current one got bought out and moved location. Got a website?

A thread I posted once was replied to by the one they call Brant

A mate of mine did the aerodynamic design on the Giant and Scott TT road bikes.
Went to a Tim March training session at Deddington back in the late 80s.

Here's me on a ski holiday with Jenny Wade, daughter of Steve Wade of Orange Bikes fame; we also went to school together. Not tenuous enough maybe? 🙂

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I met Eddie Merckx once in the central bit of the Velodrome. Had my piccie taken but it went awol with a dodgy hard drive.

I also lent Terry Dolan some money when he was in the early days of his frame building business, though I'm not sure if he ever paid it back.

Ribble Cycles was my Great Grandfather's shop. He was also involved with the Tour of Britain (or Milk Race as it was then) and plenty of other races in the area. My mum used to live above the Watery Lane shop in Preston. And look where the business is now. Unfortunately not in the family though!

I worked for a day at Leisure Lakes, Bury, to get info for a project it was doing.

Hi mike-at-dialledbikes

The company's based in Chesterfield

The company is [url= http://www.inspirepac.co.uk/ ]inspirepac[/url]

The rep you want to speak to is a guy called Mark Hextall

I went into an Evans outlet once.

nobody spoke to me.

I bought some used mavic deetraks wheels off one of the product design managers at dakine.

I've stood at the creek gap that wade simmons broke his leg on up fromme, can't believe people do that on a bike. [url=

thats the best/worst i can do.

I used to ride with the guy who wrote the NYM version of the Vertebrate Graphics books.

Ok...even more tenuous link building on Ruminants.
I buy boxes from a sister site of the one that Ruminant works at.

Surely that is the most tenuous yet?

If thats not good enough, I supplied a load of decaff tea to On-one late last year. Anyone getting a free cuppa has Daves cheek and my delivery skills to thank.

CHB, would that be wetherby?

I once built Will Longden's(who is he anyway) old hubs into wheels for an ex colleague as a favour, turned out he'd already sold them on at an extortionate price and got busted when the chappy found out via another customer of mine.

Hi Ruminant, yes it is.
Never knew the group did boxes for Hope!
Might have to ask Ken or Geoff for some packed samples for our christmas auction.

CHB - Join the queue, we had some very tasty hubs and stems whilst we designed the boxes. even a lefty one that would have looked great on my prophet.

The lights as well - that was torture as we had the new head torch thingy in the office before anyone knew about it

which company are you? might work on your artwork

I got some hope lights (twin) from the Chain Reaction flood sale, never had a box with em so didn't see your handywork.
I work for a small tea and coffee company in Harrogate.

I deliver whatever guff the Athertons order.
There quite often.
Gee's 4x trophy frm the bike radar live thing is dumped on the shoes in the porch!
Saw Rachael a month or so ago riding around the village, arm in sling with a nice scar from her shoulder operation!

I gave job evaluation training to the HR team of the company that owns the Mavic brand 🙂

When we lived in Milton Keynes we changed our phone number because of nuisance calls.

Some years later I found it had been given to Phil Corley Cycles where I bought my first proper mountain bike, and he's still using it MK311424.