JUST ANOTHER PAISLEY BIKE RIDE
What wouldn't I have given to have been in Paisley a couple of days ago, when 'Mellow Johnny' himself turned up and invited the great unwashed out for a bike ride? Piecing together the story from Lance Armstrong's Twitter feed, it appears that back home in Texas, the seven times Tour winner was contemplating his imminent trip to the 'Emerald Isle' for the Tour of Ireland , when he realised that his mate Bono was doing a gig in Glasgow. U2, Croke Park, 25th July 2009 On the spur of the moment it seems, he decided to fly across for the Hampden concert and duly tweeted, "Hey Glasgow, Scotland!! I'm coming your way tomorrow. Who wants to go for a bike ride?" A couple of hundred fans at least - including 'Flying Scotsman' Graeme Obree himself - did. And they duly turned up in the rain, in Paisley, to go for a spin with the world's most famous cyclist. The small Scottish town can't have experienced many other days quite as surreal as t...