![]() It’s similar to what I do in cycling – to attract good-quality editorial coverage for brands. “At 20, I used to snowboard professionally. Elliott knows the power of projecting a strong self-image and has done for many years. She’s also an incredible trackstander, regularly ticking off 60sec static efforts on our shoot. She ticks many commercial boxes: attractive, edgy and – as we discovered on our photo shoot – open to most things. It all sounds like one rather delightful cycling holiday but this really is business, providing furtive ground for her website Bikes & Stuff, as well as giving her sponsors exposure. Dave said I‘d love them but, when I checked them out, they were huge,” Elliott elevates her tone to match the steepness of the jumps. “’Were they Proline?’ I asked Dave, hoping that they weren’t. So Dave called me from the hotel he was staying at and I said, ‘why not!’”Īctually, that bunny hops the one caveat Elliott had – that the BMX trails, which she spent most of her free hours on, were suitable. ![]() Dave told Kye about our situation – we had one week left on our London rental – and Kye said why not move down there. But on the way home, Dave had a shoot with BMX dirt jumper Kye Forte, who lived in Newton Abbot. “The houses we could afford were just bleak. Noakes, who’s also a photographer, headed to the north coast of Kernow, driving through their rose-tinted dreams to a reconnaissance mission shrouded in wet and grey. So we thought sod it, we’re outdoors people, let’s move to Cornwall…” At the weekends, we escaped the city to BMX and realised we just couldn’t afford to make use of all the cool stuff London has to offer. “Between us we earned a reasonable amount of money but were still skint. Those are the general messenger rules… It’s a nice scene, like a big renegade community.” “I was a messenger for 18 months and apparently that means you’re not a proper bike messenger. It’s an incongruously genteel backdrop for a rider who’s known for generating extreme power outputs around the banging inner-city crit Red Hook circuit.īefore fixies took over, Juliet competed at a high level in BMX “My husband, Dave, and I were bike messengers in London,” Elliott says of her life before ‘Kerswell. Wikipedia describes the village as being “surrounded by fields”. This historic town is the gateway to Dartmoor, Devon, with a small population of less than 2,000. ![]() You heard of Abbotskerswell? We thought not. “I’ve caught the train from Abbotskerswell,” Elliott replies. So where does this adventure-seeker currently reside? In Elliott’s world, if you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room. Her charming and vibrant personality – Elliott’s words-per-minute rate matches her fixed-gear cadence max of 150rpm – has projected her as a figurehead for empowering women, and seen her rack up a truly eclectic CV that lists model, professional snowboarder, top BMX racer, mountain biker… and member of a rock band. Until this year, she also rode for Charge, the archetypal singlespeedsters. Elliott’s Instagram account verges on 26,000 – sizeable in the world of fixed gear – attracting the likes of Assos, Vans and Fox. She’ll further satiate her competitive appetite with a myriad of non-fixed cycling races.īut there are more strings to Elliott’s bow than just racing. The unofficial fixed gear world championships in Berlin are coming up soon, on 18 June. ![]() “I’ll also race the Rad Race Fixed42,” Elliot adds. “No coffee, please.” Juliet’s been off the black stuff since the start of 2017 Jesse Wild/Immediate Media ![]()
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