Sir Chris Hoy loved his London Olympics cycling success but found the going very hard Since London I have had so many amazing experiences, though if I had to pick one it would be getting a ride in a Typhoon fighter jet. I was invited up to RAF Leuchars to become a kind of honorary group captain for the air cadets and went for a flight up to Orkney and past the Old Man of Hoy. After that we did some acrobatic stuff. That was like nothing else. So many wonderful and bizarre things that have happened to me that you do not really have time to sit back and think what a wonderful day you have just had because you are onto the next experience. The best thing is having all the pictures on your phone. You start flicking through it and it is looking through a diary of what you have done. For the first two or three months after the Games, if someone asked me what I had done the previous week, I literally could not have remembered what I had done the previous day. It sounds like you are being blasé about it, but you are not. Everything is happening so quickly that you wish you could spread it out of the period of a whole lifetime. I have not ruled out doing some coaching in the future but, in the short term, it is about trying to have an impact in different areas and getting a sense of what I really want to do. I have an ambassadorial role for the Commonwealth Games and I am doing some mentoring for the Scottish team. Hopefully, I will do some more for the GB team in 2016. I have also been putting a lot of time into my bike range. After 2½ years of working on the project, the bikes are finally in the shops now and I get a massive buzz whenever I walk past a shop window and see them. Looking back on London, I have so many great memories. The first one was carrying the flag. The four years of hard work to get there was worth it for that alone and in a way it took the pressure off the competition because I thought I had got something from the Games just by leading the team out at the Opening Ceremony. That thing alone gave me a lifetime of memories. Winning sprint team gold was very special. Winning a medal with team-mates is a great experience because you get to share that moment with them and it was a surprise, too, because we hadn't won any major championships between Beijing and London and everybody just came together at the right time. My most abiding memory, however, would have to be standing on the podium after the keirin. It was the end of the track programme and everybody had come round to the front of the podium. You are seeing everyone who has been there on that journey with you, and not just for the past four years because someone people had been with me for my whole career. You pick out your friends and family in the crowd, your rivals, the coaches of your rivals. That was so emotional for me. I was in a state before I even stepped up there, realising that this was the end of my journey. Chris Hoy won gold in the team sprint and keirin