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Taylor Hawkins’ drug of choice!
He was cool already... now he’s next level!
Any other rock stars, actors, sportsmen/women, etc that like a bit of dirt on the side?
Bill Bailey
George Dubya
Tim Commerford
Dave Grohl (apparently)
That bloke from The Cure
Mark Webber
Juan Pablo Montoya
Mike Edwards
Grayson Perry
Guy Martin too apparently...
(Awaits ‘who?’ comments from the usual suspects)
John squire of stone roses. The roses famously had to cancel their 1995 Glastonbury headline slot cos he had broken his elbow mountain biking in California
...some promo shots from the time had him wearing a Yeti long sleeve top
... I met him in North west mountain bike centre as he's mates with Andy kyffin.
...lives near Macc so probably goes out in white peak
Kylie
Rachel Riley
That'll do it for me.
The beautiful South?
Boris Johnson
Lance Armstrong
This bloke
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Roadies
David Coulthard
Jenson Button
+ a few other F1 drivers
Matt Damon
MTB
Tim Commerford from Rage Against The Machine
Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters
BMX
Slash from Guns N Roses
Phil Anselmo & Dimebag Darrell (R.I.P) of Pantera, Phil Anselmo is famous for wearing S&M BMX t shirt in one of the band's videos
Nicloe Kidman if you count BMX bandits lol
Jenson Button (search for Jenson Button BMX
Is that a Nazi e-bike? 😆
This guy
Ewan Macgregor is a mad fixie skidder*
* Actual confirmed sighting.
Chris Hoy
George Clinton AND Neil Armstrong
Duff from Guns n Roses
that bloke from the 80s who used to grant childrens wishes on tele, after he died some bike company bought some of his bikes. I wonder where they are now?
That actor with the big cock.
Syd Barret, obviously.
I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like
It's got a basket, a bell that rings
And things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it
Eric Clapton used to be. He lived in the Surrey Hills MTB biked with the local group. I remember hearing about a big stack he had riding Peaslake.
If we are doing roadies as well then Robin Williams was massively in to it, had a couple of MTBs too, they were all auctioned off after his death iirc
Road - John Kerry
MTB - Mark Webber
Robin Williams was a huge cycling nut, Orlando Bloom is another MTBer too.
Not sure if they're in the videos up there as I can't view them at work.
Timmy Mallet
^ FTW
Is that a Nazi e-bike? 😆
ALL e-bikes are Nazi
Harrison Ford rides a Croix De Der
No word as of yet as to whether the kessel run has a strava segment yet.
Einstein
David Byrne
Paul Smith
Can't believe no one's mentioned Jeremy Vine! Unless I missed his name above...
It took me 5 seconds to realise the photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't actually David Cameron.
Stevie Wonder has one of those brown Chameleons.
Does he know?
Met Joe Gilgun (This is England, Preacher etc) at Rivington a couple of times. He's a proper XC whippet! Suprisingly fast he was 🙂
I drafted Martin Johnson on the Dartmoor classic for a while. He made quite a big hole in the wind to hide in, I think there were a few of us being towed along.
I met Timmy mallet out on his bike on our local cycle path.
Alain Prost, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Walter Rohl, Sarkosy,
Chris Cornell (RIP)
Alan Sugar (road)
Can’t believe no one’s mentioned Jeremy Vine! Unless I missed his name above…
If we’re allowing that, then Binners.. I think he’s been on BBC radio too.
Jenson Button has road bikes, mainly because he does triathlons
keith lemon for mtb.
robbie williams for general riding in town.
Billy Connolly used to ride a wee bit, Alexi Sayle who wore lycra 3 sizes too tight and seeing as F1 drivers need to keep fit, most live in Monaco and was there not a xc racer from the late '80's a fitness coach for a few
Chris Isaak
Alex Wurz
Mike Edwards of Jesus Jones used to race 24hrs and had a column in one of the magazines
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/know-or-seen-any-celebs-that-mtb/
Alexi Sayle has been into cycling for years
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/watch-it-mate-alexei-sayle-looks-back-on-his-30-years-of-two-wheeling-around-london-2008642.html
Seb Loeb (broke a leg and missed about 5 rallies one year after a DH crash (still won the title though!))
Kris Meeke
Dani Sordo
Ken Block
Seems like guys who like driving cars fast off road like riding bikes off road too!
Also, George North has taken the Wales rugby team off road in the Alps on a training camp at least once (doubt it was much more than paths though, so not sure that counts!) (He's got a Geometron though)
Pretty sure Lewis Hamilton bought one of Greg Minnaar's V10s at a charity auction once. He's definitely dabbled in off road riding, but I think the v10 would be a bit much for him!
Also, Danny Ricciardo and Brendon Hartley as well as Mark Webber for the Antipodean MTB/F1 stars
Oh, and Top Gear presenter Chris Harris, he used to have an orange 5 which fitted snugly into the back of his Ferrari FF!
Yeah Wibber infamously had to start a season with a pinned ankle after an MTB crash and took a few races to get up to full speed. I don't remember if it was one of the ones when he was fighting Vettle for the Championship.
Alonso is not only a keen cyclist he nearly ended up running a pro team.
Outside of Formula One, Alonso is passionately interested in road bicycle racing. Alonso's friends include professional cyclists Alberto Contador, Miguel Indurain and Samuel Sánchez. He cycles himself in order to maintain his fitness for Formula 1.[211]
Alonso hinted at running a cycling team in the 2011 edition of the Tour de France with Contador leading the team.[212] In early September 2013, Alonso announced his intentions to rescue the insolvent Euskaltel–Euskadi cycling team, reaching an agreement to buy their UCI World Tour licence in order to form a Spanish professional cycling team using many of its existing riders.[213] On 23 September, however, it was announced that negotiations over the deal had collapsed. Alonso still plans to create a cycling team for the 2015 season.[214] In January 2014, Cycling Weekly reported that either Peter Sagan or Contador would sign with Alonso's prospective team – tentatively named the Fernando Alonso Cycling Team (FACT)[215] – for the 2015 season, and that former world champion Paolo Bettini was leading the creation of the team.[216] It has also been pointed out that, if the Cannondale team plan to vacate their UCI ProTeam licence, FACT could be fast-tracked to the highest level of professional cycling.[217] However, in November 2014 Alonso confirmed that the team would not compete in 2015 "due to a number of circumstances".[218]
It was suggested that the fact the team was going to be run out of Malta may have meant tax avoidance reasons were part of the reason for doing it.
Loeb broke his leg on a motocrosser.
I saw Boris on his bike once.
I was waiting to walk across Bank in The City and he was right there in front of me, just setting off from the lights.
"Alright Boris" I said, and he gave me a nod and a smile.
At the time I thought that was kind of cool, the Major of London/politician cycling between meetings.... a man of the people, so to speak.
Little did I know he turn out to be the biggest self serving get of them all.
I'd stick my brolley through his front wheel if I saw him again.
I imagine quite a few of us on here can say they’ve raced against Guy Martin and Mark Webber
Jimmy Saville..
They never mention that in their email newsletter.
Loeb broke his leg on a motocrosser.
Nope, when he missed 4 rallies in 2006 it was definitely mountain bike.
that bloke from the 80s who used to grant childrens wishes on tele, after he died some bike company bought some of his bikes. I wonder where they are now?
He had a VW California campervan too in a very distinctive colour. There's a thread on a forum somewhere where the proud owner of a campervan in said colour bought from some Isle-of-Taxdodge holding company came to the realisation of its provenance. Yes, that's a campervan. With beds....
Nope, when he missed 4 rallies in 2006 it was definitely mountain bike.
The official line at the time.
Edit: I've now checked he was riding a KTM motorbike.
Il avoue quelques années plus tard dans son autobiographie avoir été au guidon d'une moto de marque KTM lors de l'accident puis d'avoir maquillé ce point de détail pour ne pas s'attirer les foudres de son employeur
Oh well, English sources need updating then! Point still stands though that he does ride mountain bikes!
Thank you for Edukating me!
Loeb is an amazing driver probably great at gymnasty as well, have a look at his Pikes Peak in car Peugeot hurl up the hill
@136stu "That actor with the big cock", you'll have to narrow it down a bit
James May, Could have sworn i saw him bombing along on an orange drop bar bike.
@136stu “That actor with the big cock”, you’ll have to narrow it down a bit
Orlando Bloom
Paul Heaton.