On floors, that is… but why not?

I’ve been a serial chancer/cheapskate/ ‘economic lifestyle enthusiast’ for years, especially when travelling. I’ve been that guy who phones up someone I met ten years ago, saying ‘Hi!

Remember me? No? Well, we met in a hotel bar in 2008…

Anyway, you said that if I was ever in Bismarck, North Dakota, that I should come and stay and you’d show me the mountain biking… Yes, I am in town… yes, just down the street from your house actually… of course, I’d love to…’

Even travelling for work, the Singletrack World travel budget was always (and is still is…) tight. In the early days of the magazine, I would arrive at the Sea Otter event in California, (having taken someone up on their offer of a lift from the airport) without a hotel booking, knowing that I had the duration of the first day to find someone I vaguely knew, who had a company-paid room with a spare bed, or floor I could scrounge. And it always worked.