This is all
's fault - she twisted my arm and forced me to do a me me me post...
I promise not to nominate anyone else for the 11 facts about me, one of which isn't true challenge.
These are mostly from the dark ages when I was a mad cunt, long before I became a boring old fart.
If you can be arsed, see if you can guess which one is bollocks!
UPDATE
The lucky winner was who was the only one to correctly pick the lie.
Explanations now added in italics
ALL IS REVEALED - https://steemit.com/contest/@sift666/the-big-lie-exposed
TEN FACTS ABOUT ME (AND ONE LIE)
I have ridden more than 10 000 different bicycles.
TRUE - for two years I was working in a bike shop test riding all the new bikes and a lot of the major repairs - so typically over 20 bikes a day, five days a week, 50 weeks a year - 20x5x50x2 =10 000. Then I started my own bike shop and did lots more for nine years. At least another 45 000. So 55 000 different bikes would be a conservative estimate! 10 000 is just the tip of the iceberg
I drank my own urine every day for a month and four people copied me.
TRUE - it's really not hard and nearly everyone wanted to try doing it. It tastes like warm Aussie beer
When I was a teenager I had a 67 Valiant with a fully worked race engine out of a speedway car.
TRUE - it had a 300HP HEMI six with full race cam and six into one straight pipe. But it had no non-engine modifications and still had drum brakes. The warrant of fitness was fake and it was a totally illegal deathtrap. If there is a god he was looking out for me, because somehow I got away with it
I went to a concert with seven joints in my pocket and smoked the lot
LIE - that is utter bollocks - I can't smoke seven joints! - read more HERE
I registered the domain name WWW.SIFT.CO.NZ in 2000
TRUE - I also had WWW.FROT.CO.NZ and several others
In 2002 an MRI scan revealed that I had a brain tumour the size of a golf ball
TRUE - that really fucked my shit up and is the reason I learned just about everything I know now. No it didn't kill me within a year without treatment like the doctors said it would! There are many ways to treat illnesses
I have been clocked at 117kph (72mph) on a bicycle
TRUE - but not on a mountainbike like in this photo in which I'm only doing about 65kph looking like a windsock. I was on a roadbike, dressed in lycra, slipstreaming a van downhill on a motorway, with a really strong tailwind. Getting up over 100kph is hard work
I have included a picture with every one of my last 4400 Steemit comments
TRUE - Right from the outset in August 2016 I've had an image fetish. Back then we had to use Imagesafe
I wore contact lenses every day for over 20 years and then one day my eyes wouldn't accept them anymore.
TRUE - this was a contest experiment - would anyone guess the boring one? - no they wouldn't :)
I broke my knee joint clean in half and it was rebuilt by one of New Zealand's top surgeons
TRUE - Man was I lucky - it was a bad enough break that he thought it would be interesting to fix. He did a beautiful job and despite being full of stainless steel only the big scar reveals that it's a bit used
I was chased by seven cops while on a bicycle and was described in the news as the worst example of a reckless bike rider the police had ever seen.
TRUE - as an ex bicycle courier I had a few tricks up my sleeve. But they were good at using radios and the one I didn't know about saw where I went. Got two convictions for that