Editing Graeme Obree (section)

===Personal life ===
Obree's achievements on the bike, his personal life and battle with mental health have combined to make him one of cycling's most enigmatic and eccentric figures. The Scotsman claimed both the World Individual Pursuit title in 1993 and 1995 however is well known for his attempts at the World hour record.

In the 1990s he took an overdose of [[aspirin]] washed down by water from a puddle.<ref name="Tel2007" /><ref name="Indy06" /> He had personality problems,<ref name="Indy06" /> sniffed the gas he used to weld bicycles, and was being chased for £492 owed in college fees.<ref name="Tel2007" />  Obree's brother, Gordon,<!-- his only sibling? --> died in a car crash in October 1994,<ref name="BikebizJan02" /> and Obree again slid in and out of depression. In 2001 he was found unconscious at Bellsland Farm in [[Kilmaurs]], 12&nbsp;km from his Ayrshire home. The Obree family horse was stabled there and he was discovered by a woman checking a barn.<ref name="BikebizJan02" /> He had tried to hang himself.<ref name="Tel2007" />

Obree is divorced from his wife, with whom he has two children.<ref>{{Cite web |author1=Richard Tyler |date=2011-01-31 |title=Graeme Obree reveals he is gay |url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/graeme-obree-reveals-he-is-gay/ |access-date=2022-09-18 |website=cyclingnews.com |language=en}}</ref>

In January 2011, Obree disclosed in an interview with the ''[[Scottish Sun]]'' that he is gay and that his difficulty with coming to terms with his sexual orientation contributed to his earlier suicide attempts. "I was brought up by a war generation; they grew up when gay people were put in jail. Being homosexual was so unthinkable that you just wouldn't be gay. I'd no inkling about anything, I just closed down." He [[coming out|came out]] to his family in 2005.<ref name = gogay>{{cite web |url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/graeme-obree-reveals-he-is-gay/ |title=Graeme Obree Reveals He is Gay |last=Tyler |first=Richard |date=January 31, 2011 |website=Cycling News |access-date=March 19, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |agency=Press Association |date=2011-01-31 |title=Former world champion Graeme Obree reveals battle with sexuality |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/jan/31/graeme-obree-cycling-sexuality-battle |access-date=2023-08-23 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Obree suffers from [[bipolar disorder]].<ref name="BBC1999">{{cite web |author=Gordon Cairns |date=9 June 1999 |title=Graeme Obree: Homegrown Hero |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0037/page03.shtml |publisher=BBC}}</ref>

He continues to race occasionally in individual time trials for [[Ayrshire]]-based Fullarton Wheelers [[cycling club]]. In May 2005, he crashed in the rain in the national 10-mile time trial championship near [[Nantwich]] in Cheshire. He was a member of the winning three-man club squad that took the team title in the Scottish 10-mile championship in May 2006.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bikeradar.com/features/interview-legendary-scottish-cyclist-graeme-obree/ |title=Interview: Legendary Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree |last=Spedding |first=Rob |date=July 5, 2009 |website=Bike Radar |access-date=July 10, 2021}}</ref> In December 2006, he competed in the track event, Revolution 15, in a four kilometre pursuit challenge.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://roadcyclinguk.com/tech/tech-features/revolution-15-report.html |title=Revolution 15 Report |publisher=Road Cycling UK |date=12 December 2006 |access-date=May 4, 2021}}</ref>