Imagine you turn up to a 10mi time trial and you see a chap riding a state-of-the-art Pinarello in a full Team Wiggins skinsuit with rainbow stripes round the sleeves.
It’s either an exceptionally keen amateur, or the man himself. On Tuesday night it was the latter as Sir Bradley Wiggins turned up to the D10/1 event in Bickerstaffe, much to the amazement of the regulars.
Bradley Wiggins came to our local time trial great to see him slightly star struck! Wiggo is no.15 🙂 #cycling pic.twitter.com/sHoQWScDf2
— Eddie Hirst (@EddieHirst_) June 7, 2016
The 2014 world time trial champion clocked a pretty decent time on the 10mi course, recording 19-15, according to the handwritten results sheet.
A screenshot of the results from Twitter user @KevCawley shows that Wiggins was 39 seconds faster than second place rider Phil Williams from Liverpool Phoenix.
There you go, Brad p*ssed it as expected, fair play to the chaps behind him especially Pete W a mate of mine effort pic.twitter.com/lPFNB13ct8
— Moto Man (@KevCawley) June 7, 2016
Wiggins is training towards attempting to win his fifth Olympic gold medal at Rio 2016, where he is likely to form part of the team pursuit squad taken to Brazil.