Introducing...
Jon Rollason is the candidate for July 2007. He's a been riding for over a decade now and enjoying every aspect of it, from pub nights to collecting beer tankards with a bit of biking along the way too.
Name: Jon Rollason
Age: 28
Significant Others: My wife, Reena.
What made you start cycling? Getting about, around 10 years ago now. And then realising that bike time was better than other sorts of time.
Why did you join Kingston Wheelers? You've got to love a club that has a pub night on a Monday.
Date you joined the Club: Autumn 2006
Who is your favourite pro or inspiration? Jo Burt, mountain biking troubadour and cartoonist, creator of the legendary Mint Sauce strip in Mountain Biking UK.
What bike do you ride? A nice new Condor Italia for speed, a 1997 Kona A'ha cruiser for soul and an On One Inbred. The next project is a 1957 Freddie Grubb racer.
Give us a brief cycling background: Dad took me riding a lot when I was small, but I gave up cycling when I was about 13 because I couldn't get on with the helmets. He bought me a mountain bike for my 18th birthday though, and I threw myself into riding at university in Bristol - rode a lot, raced a bit, toured and played about. It all started to get a bit difficult when I moved to London and I started to get bored. When you realise that all your mountain bikes only have one gear, Seb Coe has flattened the Eastway and you spend more time fettling your bike than riding it then it's time for a change of scene. That was where Wheelers came in.
What was your best performance or ride? The inaugral Bristol Bikefest 12-hour solo mountainbike race. I won a Budvar tankard, which is still the Alpha Male beer receptacle in my house.
What was your worst day on the bike? Probably the Hell of the North Cotswolds in 2004. Cold, wet, tired, hungry and another 60kms to go.
What is your favourite race food? My wife's home-made energy bars.
Where is your favourite cycling location? Surrey Hills. On or off the road, even in the rain.
Most likely to say: "Can we stop for cake?"
Least likely to say: "No, we should press on. And besides, cake is fattening."
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