I continue with my story with great passion, as, over the years through various guises (aerobic sport and fitness, friendships, competition, sport and associated heroes, design, work, education, and more) it became a prime passion.
Once I had become hooked, riding laps around the park off-road, I was then allowed to brainwash both my dad and my brother into joining me in the Park. They could both see my passion for this and joined me, viewing the infamous 'Festina affair' at the Tour de France of 1998, with as much skepticism and cynicism as everyone had. It was a difficult time for the sport of cycling, it hurt as I was just falling in love with it, it spits this scandal at me, at the impressionable young age of 13 (soon to be 14).
As I recognised it as a huge problem which affected me, as a fan, I decided to read around the topic. I read Paul Kimmage's 'Rough Ride', a truly amazing book. I could see that there has been a problem in cycling for many years, and as the toughest of all sports, there will be this issue forever into the future. It's sad but true that anyone who is devoting their life to competition, often devotes everything. I have my own views on 'drugs in sport', but i shall not explain them on this blog.
Anyway, I struggled on, defending cycling to friends and family, and as i did, i realised that i had a passion here. I remember incorporating a cyclist into my first D&T project at school, designing a new GB cycling kit for my 'Graphics' G.C.S.E. coursework (for which I got my highest mark - A* i think, sorry, a major plug!).
I started my first job, part-time at Evans Cycles in Kingston a few weeks after my sixteenth birthday, in a new millenium.
...tbc(again)...
Once I had become hooked, riding laps around the park off-road, I was then allowed to brainwash both my dad and my brother into joining me in the Park. They could both see my passion for this and joined me, viewing the infamous 'Festina affair' at the Tour de France of 1998, with as much skepticism and cynicism as everyone had. It was a difficult time for the sport of cycling, it hurt as I was just falling in love with it, it spits this scandal at me, at the impressionable young age of 13 (soon to be 14).
As I recognised it as a huge problem which affected me, as a fan, I decided to read around the topic. I read Paul Kimmage's 'Rough Ride', a truly amazing book. I could see that there has been a problem in cycling for many years, and as the toughest of all sports, there will be this issue forever into the future. It's sad but true that anyone who is devoting their life to competition, often devotes everything. I have my own views on 'drugs in sport', but i shall not explain them on this blog.
Anyway, I struggled on, defending cycling to friends and family, and as i did, i realised that i had a passion here. I remember incorporating a cyclist into my first D&T project at school, designing a new GB cycling kit for my 'Graphics' G.C.S.E. coursework (for which I got my highest mark - A* i think, sorry, a major plug!).
I started my first job, part-time at Evans Cycles in Kingston a few weeks after my sixteenth birthday, in a new millenium.
...tbc(again)...
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