VeloVeritas didn’t make it up to the Scottish 10 Mile Time Trial Championship at Alness.
‘No problem,’ thinks me, ‘I’ll get an interview with the winner; if John Archibald hasn’t recovered from his crash and doesn’t ride it’ll be David Griffiths or maybe Chris Smart?’
Not for the first time, I got it wrong.
Liam Beaty?
Is that the Hawick lad whom was second on the hill climb, last year?
Fast forward a few days and Liam is on the end of the line, en route Lesmahagow, ‘to pick up a quad.’
Intriguing, so let’s start with what he does for a living:
“I work in forestry, feeling trees, it’s pretty physical work – good training…”
How did you get into the bike?
“I used to race motocross and as part of my preparation for that I’d ride my mountain bike on the trai