[Closed] Who have you met out riding?

A couple of years ago I was riding with some mates in the Black Mountains, & bumped into Stoner from this site, who was out for a solitary overnight hike.

timmy mallet.

Just saw the lollipop man outside my daughters school.

Dougie Vipond. /thread.

I was out up Macclefield forest on Saturday and met a guy called 'Don' who lives in Macclesfield. He was able to advise me on some other local riding. He minced out of the tech on charity lane and went down the cut path to the right.

Bumped into Chris Akrigg a couple of times in my local woods.

No one really.

Saying that, I do occasionally see the odd group of MTB'ers, I assume from PeterboroughMBR, and maybe some of them are on here.

Met my mate Nick out on his Cotic X, we were going up Reeth High Moor but heading of on different routes from the top. It was great to meet a friend out in the hills.

Pretty much a whos who of big slopestyle comps/freeride/DH.

In Whistler, 2 weeks before Crankworks.

Prince Charles. We’d just finished coming down off Lochnagar and Charlie was there pottering about at the side of Loch Muick.

Fairclough/Kerr bombing around our local trails..

Adam Hart-Davies in Clearbrook when out riding from Plymouth in to Dartmoor.

Not my picture, but...

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I stopped at Waitrose in Swaffham, Norfolk whilst out on the road bike (free coffee!) and was chatting to Roger Lloyd-Pack (trigger from Only Fools and Horses) for ages, a week later it was announced he died.

Having a beer in pub down in Cornwall at the end of a ride and was chatting to Ronnie Wood too, he came across as a genuinely nice bloke.

I met my local strava nemesis yesterday. The bastard.

Gary Fisher.

Last year I bumped into Ian Stannard in full sky gear at the bottom of a climb in Essex. He stopped at the same time & opposite the road to me to don a rain jacket - as was I. A minutes exchange of pleasantries and he was off up the hill faster than I could sprint.

Very pleasant chap, even bigger chest in the flesh than the TV relates to you.

Rowland Riveron

I've just had to Google him. 😳

Munrobiker, I just spat out a mouthful of coffee,

I bumped into Janet Street Porter above Pately bridge, I even held the gate open for her and she still had a go at me !

Something about a speed limit ? And rights of way ?

Eric Newby (a good few years ago mind - The mention of the Square & Compass at Worth reminded me of that)

'Met' with the former england captain when he stepped into the road 2 feet in front of me going through Dore (Sheffield)

Emmeline Ragot and Ffion Griffiths.

Adam Hart-Davies

Last year I bumped into Ian Stannard in full sky gear at the [b]bottom of a climb in Essex[/b].

You are a troll and I claim my £10. 😉

(On a serious note, whereabouts in Essex? I worked as a mechanic in a high-end road shop near Colchester many moons back)

I also saw Janet S-P in Nidderdale a few years ago. Gave her a hearty "Good Morning!". She muttered something under her breath and looked away. Arsehole.

Met Camilla a couple of times riding around Tetbury.

Me on a bike her on a horse accompanied by another rider.

Both times she smiled and said hello, I was pleasantly surprised.

Assorted DH/XC elite around Cannock

They're not that fast 🙂

I also saw Janet S-P in Nidderdale a few years ago. Gave her a hearty "Good Morning!". She muttered something under her breath and looked away. Arsehole.

Didn't realise she lived/holidayhomed in Nidderdale, but then I've encountered a fair few strange people up that valley. Will have to keep an eye out.

Robert de Niro and bonnie Langford.

Robert de Niro and bonnie Langford.

Its good that they got back together.

IIRC mcmoonter, or maybe his mate Paul, said they had met Camilla at loch muick, also said she was very pleasant.

Bonnie wasn't with Robert, she was with Kenny senior. Robert was in the next tent down.

Kevin Whatley

he must be a regular spot at Woburn

I think I saw Lenny Henry trying to find his house as well

Hans Rey at Cannock. I was once in the same race as John Leslie the ex-presenter of Blue Peter - Helen Sharman (astronaut) was also in the same race.

I bumped into Paxo on 3 separate occasions cycling off-road with his kiddies at exactly the same place in the Chilterns.

Chatted to, and smoked a J with Antony Kiedis (lead singer) from the Chilli Peppers at the top of a large hill in San Fransisco area (Mt Tamalpais)

Wasn't until i left him near the bottom of the descent at the beach that i twigged who he was. Shame as i would have asked if i could play drums in his band if i'd known.

A very fit looney he was too.

Steve Peat and Hans Rey at Dalby. Saw a load of blokes in full team kit zooming through Yorkshire a couple of weeks ago too, not sure what that was all about. Bastards stole most of the local Strava KOMs an' all, wassocks! 😉

Cameron McNeish; we had just picked our way down through recently felled FC mayhem strewn across the track - and he was enjoying a road bike tour.

Samurai-I bet he does not even remember it

TJ on more than one occasion

Pimpmaster Jazz - Member
Last year I bumped into Ian Stannard in full sky gear at the bottom of a climb in Essex.

(On a serious note, whereabouts in Essex? I worked as a mechanic in a high-end road shop near Colchester many moons back)

Toots Hill, after the Toots Hill bumps past the pub (the Green Man?), he was going South in the direction of Epping, I was doing a N London/Chelmsford loop.

Toots Hill, after the Toots Hill bumps past the pub...

Ah, don't know that part of the world too well.

I love the idea that at least one tour rider is logging on STRAVA

Froome & Porte just before this year's tour. Had a nice chat with them while we descended down a col in the Alps. Was pretty cool.

We spotted Loic Bruni and Sam Blenkinsop at the PPdS last year.

Excitedly set off after them on a descent and then found they'd stopped at the bottom of a muddy, rutted meadowy bit of trail - just in time to watch me careen down barely in control but somehow manage to keep the fishtailing bike upright.

Felt great to get a cheer from them guys, didn't stop to chat though.

mcmoonter correctly IDed me based on bike at Bridge of Tilt car park.

Seen Peaty a few times at Greno/Warncliffe, but that's not surprising really!

We always let him go before us......

And Lorenzo Suding told me which way my mates had gone down the Pila-Aosta freeride trail.

He was a fast rider.

I almost ran over Ricky Gervais when I was cycle courier about 13 years ago in London 🙂

Cheers, Rich

freeridenick - Member
Fairclough/Kerr bombing around our local trails..

Likewise, along with the MBR guys often about. Bumped into Rowan Sorrell at BPW, but then it's hard not to 😀

Probably seen a few other well known riders but then I don't really recognise faces or remember names that well.

No one actually famous outside biking world though I think.

Came across Gordon Ramsay in Whistler... but that was skiing, and he wasn't skiing. Just was in the town doing a video shoot (and his heavies got narky with me for trying to take a photo).

Rode past James DeGale the boxer in Epping Forest.

He was jogging the other way so no opportunity for chit-chat.

I followed that "Whistler on a hardtail" guy down Dirt Merchant once...couldn't keep up even with 180mm each end.

I try to time my MTB rides so I see absolutely noone, but I see quite a few past and present Basque pros out on the road, and there are a couple on our Sat am chaingang. Had a chat with Olano on a ride a couple of weeks ago, still incredibly quick, as is Beloki.

Last year, trying to hang onto Garate descending a very steep twisty mountain road, and watched him overcook a corner and end up in the bushes 😆

Came across Gordon Ramsay in Whistler...

Does The Sun know about this? It could be worth a few pennies!

TJ on more than one occasion

Hooker?

Hooker?

Not before lunch, thanks.

Oh aye, at the EWS it was just world champions everywhere, beating them off with a stick at some points. I couldn't get that fussed about all that til I bumped into Andrew Shandro and went all giddy schoolgirl 😆

Not before lunch, thanks.

It's 2pm somewhere... (like France, for instance). 😉

I met Jill Gould in a bike shop on Robson St. in Vancouver. She was complaining that all the couriers were racing her because she was in full team kit and had lots of shiny bits on her bike, some made by an upstart UK company called Hope.

At the time she wasn't yet Jill Gould, and Tim was racing the hill climb (yes - climb) at Mammoth the coming weekend.

Lovely lass that appeared happy to shoot the breeze with the ex-pat shop owner and a young backpacker that idolised her boyfriend.

Ned Boulting and Chris Boardman filming one of their TDF segments on Wrynose as we were 'racing' up it. In the segment it is my friend being overtaken by Ned on an electric bike (chuckle).

A few years back I met Bill Bailey. He was getting out of his car just as I came off the path at the bottom of Fleetwith Pike on to Honister Pass. He was renting a cottage with his family in Gatesgarth. Lovely fella.

I think mine trumps these. Out in the middle of nowhere near Machynlleth, came across a cottage with Jimmy Page sat in the garden, had a nice chat.

Liam Killeen and Tracey Moseley - not at the same time, and not that surprising around here.

pistonbroke - Member

I think mine trumps these. Out in the middle of nowhere near Machynlleth, came across a cottage with Jimmy Page sat in the garden, had a nice chat.

Was it this place?

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pistonbroke - Member

I think mine trumps these. Out in the middle of nowhere near Machynlleth, came across a cottage with Jimmy Page sat in the garden, had a nice chat.

Oh no it doesn't.

I give you Bonnie Tyler! (My brother, ahead of me going down Mumbles Hill, and she stepped out in front of him. Would have done the world a service if his brakes hadn't worked..)

😆

In no particular order, Joe Barnes, Hannah Barnes, Danny MacCaskill, Dougie Vipond and Kevin McKidd who couldn't believe the size of my fat tyres. Apparently I missed Bob Dylan by a few minutes by Abernethy too.

Luis Felipe Scolari.

Was it this place?

sat next to tullisa* on the plane out to my alps trip this year.

* at least I think it was her

and no she didn't offer me any coke....

Seen Tim Gould, but that's not surprising as he's from round these parts. See his brother Julian regularly.

Nick Craig somewhere in the Dark Peak - again, not overly surprising.

I once saw/met Cy of Cotic fame. He now thinks I'm a bit of a tit, which is surprisingly accurate.

The young professor Xavier.

Mike Harding post ride pub session. He was a bit grumpy.

Not whilst riding, but got flown back as a medical emergency after bike crash in Bolivia and was sat next to (actually more slumped on combination of morphine and red wine) Sophie Ellis Bexter on the Miami to London leg who was actually really nice and "mothered" me a bit, kept making sure I was comfortable and asked steward to operate chair for me, even gave me her email address to let her know how i got on recovering.

Have downhill skateboarded with Brad gerlach and Donovan frankenreiter when they happened to stop in my local town enroute to Ireland back in the late 90s . Also surfed with Kelly Slater, Tom Carroll, Martin Potter and loads of other pros on various surf trips to Australia and France.

Was it this place?

Very good 🙂

Very good

Stompingly, I'd say. 😉

Jeremy Paxman

Although I didn't know. My dad just said afterwards as we rode past " that was Jeremy Paxman"

No massively exciting

Harry_the_Spider - Member
Mike Harding post ride pub session. He was a bit grumpy.

Didn't we see Andy Kershaw once too?

A mate I ride with occasionally sees Sam Hill at a certain location in the North West.

Didn't we see Andy Kershaw once too?

Oh yeah, there has been 20% of Elbow in the pub too.

Played netball against Tracy Moseley in the Malvern Summer League

John Tomac, on the Sand Canyon trail near Cortez, CO a few years back.
He overtook us about 1/3 of the way up the canyon and met us coming back before we barely got past the halfway point. Of course, we weren't really trying 😆

Bumped into Rob Plant a few times in one of our post ride boozers.
Also used to see Roy Wood on a fairly regular basis.