When Mummy told me that we were going to meet famous cyclist, Sir Chris Hoy, I was really excited. I like cycling and Chris Hoy is one of the best. He has also written children\u2019s books about a boy called \u2018Flying Fergus\u2019 who likes to ride and really wants to have a special bike called a \u2018Sullivan Swift\u2019 but he doesn\u2019t have enough money to buy it.<\/p>\n
On the back of the books it says: Flying Fergus is about a boy called Fergus Hamilton with a big imagination living with his mum, grandad and his dog Chimp. He dreams of a state of the art \u2018Sullivan Swift\u2019 and becoming the most brilliant boy cyclist in the world. So when he gets a rusty, second hand bike for his ninth birthday he can\u2019t help but feel a little disappointed but when he takes it for a ride, he discovers something amazing.<\/p>\n
During the talk Chris said how he wrote the \u2018Flying Fergus\u2019 books with a team. There was a writer called Joanna Nadin and a lady called Clare Elsom who is the illustrator. Joanna has written 60 books in her life and during the event, Clare was really good at drawing all the characters in the book. Chris said it is always important to work together as a team.<\/p>\n
Chris talked about what inspired him to write the stories including the \u2018flying bike\u2019 part of ET, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and some of the characters in the stories are people who were in his cycling team at the Olympics.<\/p>\n
Chimp the dog was based on his coach who used to tell him to keep his \u2018inner Chimp\u2019 calm when he was nervous or excited. His coach had an Australian accent \u2013 just like Chimp the dog. Chris\u2019s character \u2018Calamity\u2019 is based on famous cyclist, Bradley Wiggins as he has long arms and legs. He told us about a man called Graham Obree who in the olden days built a bike out of washing machines and he won the world championships and that was inspiring because he didn\u2019t have enough money to buy an expensive bike but he won.<\/p>\n
I was really happy that I got to meet Sir Chris Hoy and he signed my book, I love cycling too and it was great to hear that you don\u2019t always have to have the best bike to win the races. Just work really hard, and have a good team.<\/p>\n
By Freddie Aston, age 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Mummy told me that we were going to meet famous cyclist, Sir Chris Hoy, I was really excited. I like cycling and Chris Hoy is one of the best. He has also written children\u2019s books about a boy called \u2018Flying Fergus\u2019 who likes to ride and really wants to have a special bike called […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n