I spent the month of October last year barnstorming around UK. I spent a day in Hebden Bridge, which is where the magazine Singletrack is published. In connection with that, I did a video interview, took a night ride, then regaled the locals in a pub.
One of the “locals” was Hannah Dobson, one of the Singletracks editors. the English have no natural resistance to a California personality, as the linked 4000 word article shows. (Registration required to read the whole thing.)