VeloCast

It’s no secret that I spent the early part of the nineties at The Edinburgh Bicycle Co-Op. Not in a pervy, lurking around, sniffing saddles kind of way. I was an actual employee/Co-Op member, honest! ;o)
It’s still a great shop now but at the time it was populated by extraordinary folk. Andrew Davies, master mechanic and now co-owner of The BicycleWorks, Steve McCaw of The Wheelroom, the improbably tall Ged Holmyard who once stopped to brew a cup of tea whilst competing in The Tour of the Meldons Time Trial, Mr T…James Towlson, now head honcho at Fine-adc, Lindsay MacDiarmid, erotic artist and author of many unintentional dyslexic puns whilst head of the ad department: “The plunderer’s a wee big doggie” (a prize to the first non co-op person to mail me what he actually meant).
Towering above us all though was Mike Sweatman. The Coop goes all watery eyed about it being run by it’s members. Truth is though it’s Mikey’s baby, in the same way that Apple belongs to Steve Jobs. To catch a glimpse of the twisted obsession with bicycles that’s at the heart of EBC check out Disraeli Gears. I love it!