Former High Gear presenter, turned radio DJ Steve Berry is the newest visitor on the motorcycling podcast Full Chat.
Berry is finest identified for his time presenting High Gear between 1993 and 1999, and being a radio DJ on BBC Radio 5 Stay earlier than taking up his present position asa common visitor on the Jeremy Vine Present on Radio 2.
He’s the newest visitor on Bikesure’s new podcast, hosted by former Olympic sprinter Iwan Thomas and footballer-turned-presenter David Prutton, after Michelin star chef Paul Ainsworth, former athlete and tv persona Kriss Akabusi, Isle of Man TT racer Peter Hickman, Olympic hero James Cracknell and presenter Billy Ward.
Steve Berry reveals why he wasn’t fussed about presenting High Gear
Through the episode, Berry revealed how he already the gig of his goals, earlier than randomly being requested to current a weekly function on High Gear.
When requested whether or not presenting the BBC hit TV present was his dream job, Berry replied: “Probably not!”, drawing laughter from Prutton and Thomas.
“Once I bought the gig, I type of had my dream job already. I bought it (High Gear) by probability. I used to be working because the editor of Streetfighters journal, which was the type of early 90s model of customized bike magazines.
“Me and my youthful mates had observed there was a pattern for folks to switch four-cylinder Japanese sports activities bikes, that had both been crashed or have been unloved or caught in the back of a storage someplace.
“I used to be within the workplace, in Hale, which was the house of england’s third largest bike publishing firm, who had a few dozen titles on the time; Traditional Bike Information, Again Avenue Heroes, Scootering, Streetfighters and others.
“I went to the boss who type of graduated from having a motorbike to having an Aston Martin, and stated to him ‘hey hear there’s this new craze referred to as road fighters.’ And he was intelligent sufficient that though he had moved on (from biking) that it was the following huge factor, which it was for a couple of years.
“So I did that for a couple of years, however as a result of I used to be the one one who got here into the workplace from the north, everybody else got here in from the south, it was my job to get a pint of milk within the morning for our brews.
“And within the newsagents the place I used to go, there was this bloke who additionally used to go in there referred to as Dennis that I’d chat to, and I used to be all the time on a special bike and he requested me concerning the Yamaha I had on the time.
“And he stated ‘you do know who I’m don’t you?’ And I stated ‘yeah you’re Dennis, good man, you reside regionally and also you’ve bought an outdated man BMW.’ He stated ‘I’m the producer of High Gear’, I stated ‘excellent’ and walked out the store.
“I believe he thought ‘how dare he not be throughout me and asking me for an audition.’ However I used to be 25, and the editor of a month-to-month bike journal. I might ring up nearly any producer and get them to ship spherical no matter bike I wished to experience.
“And other people neglect High Gear was a very uninteresting type of shopper present for a lot of, a few years earlier than it grew to become cool.”
Extra episodes of Full Chat to come back
There’s further episodes to come back from our motorcycling podcast as collection one continues at tempo.What superstar friends will element their historical past of bikes, together with some humorous anecdotes earlier than the season is out?
You may take heed to Full Chat on Spotify, Apple, YouTube or varied different platforms if you wish to see what all of the fuss is about.
