Saw this posted on another forum, and even though it’s not a mountain bike story, it’s pretty interesting.
Cycling With the Tsars
The author, David Herlihy, wrote a book about ten years ago called “Bicycle,” a history of the sport. In that book he spelled my name wrong! He came to visit me and have a look at my archive, so I pointed that out to him. He made the correction in my first edition copy and signed it. In the second printing my name was spelled correctly.