Full Gas TT & A VERY honest chat with Bradley Wiggins!
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Met Sir Brad several years back when he'd turned up out of the blue to ride a local time trial (Bickerstaffe/Rainford W Lancs) and I was cycling past saw him sat alone having just arrived putting his shoes on so I stopped and asked whether I could have a photo to which he kindly agreed. Lovely bloke. I told him how proud we all were of his TDF and Olympics. He was great and even politely asked whether I was doing the time trial - I was about 18 stone at the time and had just started road cycling so it was obvious I wouldn't have been up to it - I said no mate I'm just a fat lad having a bike ride. He smiled and just said 'well enjoy your ride'. Could've easily looked down his nose at me but he was really nice and I'll always remember meeting him.
The next morning I found out he'd smashed the record for the TT. I've still got the pic and I'm still cycling and about 4 stone lighter nowadays :) Top fella Sir Brad.
.....and you are an inspirational fella too 👏👏👏
Joe that is awesome!! Well done you!!
4 stone, wow, well done fella
I was at the 2014 launch of the Tour Of Britain in Liverpool. Brad arrived alone in dark sunglasses and appeared to not to want to stop and speak to anyone. My then 12 year old daughter was leaning over the barriers and shouted his name on the way back. He stopped, looked at her, walked over to us & said 'Hi, how are you?' and signed her race programme. She's 20 next month and has never forgotten that day so thanks mate, both her & I appreciated it.
That was a brilliant interview with Bradley. It was nice to see the real him which like a lot of famous sports stars never comes out until they retire. Carl Fogarty is another who springs to mind, totally different now he's retired.
He is gentleman, very down to earth hasn't let his past get to his head, also like Chris Froome
Great interview KK.
I remember riding Gorge Rd with Wiggins and CA back in 2005 when he was here for TDU.
Cheers Harley! He’s a straight forward bloke for sure no BS!
all about you Harley, as usual
I went to see Bradley a few years ago when he did a speaking tour. I saw him at the Cambridge Corn Exchange and was blown away by his candid responses and total transparency and honestly. A really genuine and down to earth guy.
@Willmatecycling Wiggins speaking frankly and honestly is to help him feel better about doping in order to gain an unearned hero status.
So happy for you to get such a treat, going to this thing. You pulled it off!
The credibility your channel now has, is just a tribute to your hard work and honesty - congratulations!
Thanks that’s proper nice of you to say!
Such an epic interview with Brad, he definitely seems very genuine and a lovely guy. Thanks for filming the few days, really enjoyable to watch 👍👍
Thanks Katie! I enjoyed this as I do all your posts, interviews and videos. Loved the pictures of the ocean and sailing ships in the backdrop. The excitement that wells within you comes out in a beautiful smile. For me, the best takeaway from your interview with Bradley was his comment; 'The content of your character'. A very deep and meaningful phrase that is far overlooked by so many who are more worried about how they look and what they own. There is nothing wrong with possessions as long as they don't possess you. Well done to both of you.
Spot on that Jim! Spot on x
Thanks for posting your excellent Isle of Wight adventure! The views, the food and some life lessons well worth sharing.
If he wasn't a legendary record beating cyclist, he could easily be that friendly tattoo artist you meet down the local caf' for a latte on a Tuesday morning at 10am. A very relaxed and honest interview. Thanks Katie, looks like you had lots of fun.
Always had a soft spot for Brad as I come from the same part of London. When he was a kid prior to riding for Condor he was a customer of the bike shop I ran and even back then highly motivated, telling me aged 13 he was going to be a pro. I hope he's okay and has proper mates around him and really hope he gets out on the bike a bit more, it's kept me sane my adult life.
What a fantastic interview, great to see Sir Brad being 'normal' and easy with his honesty. It was Sir Brad that got me back on a bike post Olympics and TdF wins so many thanks Sir and many thanks Katie for bringing that to us. Chapeau
Brad is someone Ive always admired not just for all his sporting acheivement great as they are, but for been a real person, some one who is honest and open about struggles......brilliant
Totally agree!
So good to hear open discussion about really real things from a sports superstar. Just another example that people are human no matter their status. Great interview Katie. 👌👏
What a lovely weekend, interview with Brad so good, and you covered the important crisp topic👌. So good when people like that open up on what they've been through. Amazed Gareth could fit in the back of that Aston, though. Classy exit.🤣
The classiest of exits!
Thank you for sharing this Katie. This is quite the amazing conversation, and the insight he has is amazing. He's such a down to earth guy!
And a brilliant cheater
Anytime you get to interview a sir/dame, it puts your channel up another notch. Appreciate the open honest chat
Wonderful interview with Sir Brad , how refreshingly to hear a legend , wanting to shy from the limelight and whose personal and social values we should all aspire to
Exactly that! :)
That was a great interview / chat. Bradley comes across really well - seems like a lovely guy.
Wow! It's amazing to hear Sir Bradley Wiggins be so open and frank about mental health.
What a brilliant interview. Your good at it......asked good questions then allowed Brad (and Matt the previous day) to do most of the talking.
Well done Katie (and Gareth). Bradley seems like a great guy and an awesome father & role model.
What a great video, so cool to see hear Sir Brad talk so feeely, and that amazing food, yum.
Great interview Katie, Bradley Wiggins a true legend world over in cycling. Has to be the highlight of the year. Great vid.
A true fucking cheater
I really enjoyed your capture and sharing of the event and interview. I saw one of Bradley’s race bikes on display in the Pinarello shop in Treviso. We were there for a cycling trip in the Dolomites. 🚵 Greetings from 🇨🇦.😁
Best video ever! fantastic interview...WOW Brad is the man and Gareth rules
Great words! Thanks for the interview!
Nice one Katie, loved the chat, so wish I could have heard the interview the previous night.
I won't lie I felt disappointed when Bradley seemed to not be the athlete I thought he was anymore.
As fans we never really know what it takes to perform at that level, for so long. We know that it takes dedication etc, but we don't know what it actually takes or costs them in so many other respects!
I feel so happy to have heard the snippets of the interview and your chat with him, and I 100% agree with Bradley, it's about the person you
are in life that matters most.
Thanks Bradley.
Yeah I think it’s easy for us to just see one side of it but I respect his so much for being so honest about how it all affected him. We need more honesty out there as we seem to live in a world of ‘perfect lives’ and that definitely isn’t the case.
London lad, down to earth and just a normal chap at the end of the day! Thanks for sharing. Mike
What a fab video. Really powerful comments from Brad. Thanks Katie
And I’m sending a new vlog on crisps 🤣🤣
Cracking video, maybe the best one I have seen on your channel. Well done!
Awww thanks so much! Glad you liked! :)
Really enjoyed this, thank you.
Wow, great talk with mister Wiggins, really enjoyed it. Saw him win the Tour de France back in 2012, really great cyclist.
I would have loved to be there listening to his insights into athletes and the mental issues that go with it.
There does seem to be a ideology that you always have to be riding balls out all the time. People forget what riding is all about is in life, it’s the journey that’s travelled and not the destination.
Fav crisps has to be the best question Brad has ever been asked. Fantastic interview.
Fantastic video Katie thank you for sharing it
Did they ask about the "jiffy bag"?
Never knew anything about Brad outside of his achievements. Seems like a decent bloke! Good chat 😉
Great interview with Brad, what a normal down to earth chap. Glad you had a great time.....always welcome to ride the sunny Island again 👍. PS Seabrooks Cheese and Onion gets my vote
Seabrooks are my ALL TIME FAVE!!!!!
Oh goodness... now I can't unsee Sir Bradley stuffing Monster Munches and Pringles after a big ride. Great interview!
We all do it! That’s why he’s a proper down to earth bloke cos he admits to it! :)
Big it up for Sir Brad. Super interview Katie 👍😎
Great stuff Katie
Looks like you had such a lovely weekend Katie, loved the interview 'What's your favorite Crisp'? loved it and a very important questions to cover - Crisps are my downfall haha xx
Great interview Bradley wiggins modfather cycling legend 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
Great content Katie
Wonderful day !
Thanks so much for sharing 😊
Thanks so much
Really love your videos 😊
Really enjoyed that video,very down-to-earth man.Right let’s get down to the serious stuff,Walkers (salt & vinegar) Squares they’re the ones for me. Katie you’re always welcome down to the island for a ride.
This is such a refreshing dialogue to witness. Thanks for bringing this to us Katie. Thank you for your honesty and opening your heart Bradley and for being a positive example for us all. Much love ❤️
Thank you Katie for this and for us to see the real Sir Brad - just brilliant.
Wow….what a fab trip. Lucky girl! Great interview too 🤩
Thanks Helen!!! :)
Great interview seems like a very down to earth guy 🤙🏻🤙🏻👍
You managed to get a great, open interview with Bradley. Chapeau, KK
Thank you! He was a proper nice down to earth bloke :)
Just brilliant 👏
Thank you ,
Very down to earth , good always wins.....
such a brilliant video👍👍xx
Top Job Katie. 👏👏 excellent
I live in the same Wiltshire village as Gareth’s dad and have cycled with both, small world.
Enjoyed the video
No way?!! That’s mega!! Tell him to introduce you to Susie next time you see him :)
Awesome Katie 👏👌👍
"Very" refreshing to hear what was shared by Sir Wiggins.
Great little interview ..... You've missed your Vocation MeThinks :-)
"I didn't press record". That was brilliant. :-)
Love Bradley used to see him on his bike round my area
Them pringle sweet n sours are epic!
Top marks Katie
Very revealing and interesting.
Great interview 🚴♀️😎🍀
Thanks Karl!
Great interview Katie. You really go Brad to open up. And Monster Munch Pickled Onion 👌
Ooooh bloody hell they are cracking! A solid no to the chive Pringles though!! :)
Cracking video. 🚴👍
i think its good that people are talking about how their mental health is affected in sport and hopefully it will help people both in and out of sport .
Absolutely!!!
BW makes an interesting point about elite athletes living an unreal existence. Participants in team sports such as footballers and rugby players might find challenges and setbacks easier to deal with because there's a potential ready-made support group at hand. That's not the case in cycling, where teams have a different purpose.
Fair Play Katie 👍👍👍😎
Cracking vlog 👍👍.
Crisps walkers plain with a small block of cheese Bostin 🤣
I used to love cheese in the middle of a ready salted hula hoop!
Wow what a nice down to earth bloke Sir Brad is
He's a sick guy he's books amazing, thanks Katie x
Nothing more important than being a good person and loving attentive father.
As an American, what is stone? 8 stone, 4 stone?
Fabulous!
Great chat with Wiggo Katie, always two sides to the coin in professional sport, as Naomi Osaka & Simon Biles will testify.
Numerous books by riders in the peloton documenting the 'Dark Side', David Millar for one.
Is Brad a Branston or Heinz guy ?
Swap the van for the Aston ?
I wouldn't ! 😁
Never - van for liiife!!!!
That was cool
You kept your cool id be nervous 😅 great interview
Hahaha thanks!! Well I think I just about got away with it :)
@@KatieKookaburra cool as a cucumber 👌
Bradley Wiggins is still my hero. So Is DurianRider. Hello DurianRider!
I had Sir Brad stay in a chalet a number of years back, and I must say this is a totally different individual to who we hosted a nearly a decade ago..... maybe a leopard can change its spots
He's rich after doing some really damaging things to his body and mind. He can afford to be honest.
Cycling is the new golf it seems.
After all these years with no beer... :)
Sir brad no time for arselickers or knobs,top bloke👍
Bens has raced with my daughter - nice lad and not a bad rider either
What a guy
and you look fabulous out of your cycling gear.. if im allowed to say that!
Ahhhhhhhhhh, I want to be there as well. Well jel. 😩
I have again only two words, 'lucky you!'.
I'd gladly choose an Aston Martin DB (5 - 11) if it would fit my Canyon Ultimate CF SL 7 in the back! And Oh yes, there was also this budget thing 😁
It’s lovely but a van all the way for me!! :)
@@KatieKookaburra I must get real and agree that is more practical 😁
Brannigans were discontinued last year. I know I was horrified too!
How I'm missing their ham and mustard crisps!
Bugger!
I would love to visit this place! Isle of Wight is it?
Yup :)
That went well. A while back you talked about your passion for rambling. As a journalist, Katie, it would be good if you interviewed cyclists while on walks.
Walking and talking isn’t ideal - really difficult to film.
Wiggins does not seem excitable about cycling anymore. All the best to him.
Listen to the interview :)
@@KatieKookaburraI did, and he seemed well over it. I think he’d rather eat monster munch and chill 😂 7:09
Enjoyed this series very well shot looks like it was a good time. Nice to see Brad with a more normal weight too in his tour de france days he was so lean it looked unhealthy.
Glad you enjoyed the vids.
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If I were to be you, in your place there at this, (maybe due to my being a much more piss poor cyclist and blogger than you yourself), I’d be thinking “how the hell did someone like me end up here in this company”
You are no doubt worthy but I’m willing to bet that the thought occurred though.
Either way, from my lowly perch, you fit there and it’s been great to see …. Sir Brad has some really honest and valid stuff to say in this and not just about riding a bike.
From Indonesian
Seabrooks Salt and Vinegar, every time!
Seabrooks… YES YES YES! They are my all time faves. If you can find the pickled onion ones of those… oh myyyy gawwwwwsh they are beltin!
@@KatieKookaburra they are double tasty!
"CALL ME SIR!!!"
I think Bradley could have gone on for a few more years as a pro cyclist but obviously he knew it was his time to retire. It's funny how so many ex pros hardly ride post career but many also get back into cyclist after a well deserved hiatus.
Because they ride 500+ miles a week... taper for tours are SEVENHUNDRED miles a week....
I get bored with 100 miles here and there in between trail runs.
Now just cycle 5 times that for months.