So let's see some of your old skool pics! Got me thinking about I've been tidying stuff up the loft, found a lot of old MTB photos.
Me on my first ever MTB £99 Emmelle Cheetah, T-shirt my brother made a school it had "power" screen printed in purple on the front! Taken at Margam Park 1993 about my 2nd ever MTB race (which I do believe I won!)
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This was billed as an MTB race..home village of Nicole Cooke, I also believe this may be one of the first races she did which was her foreay into cycling.
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Boxing Day ride 1993 what are those trousers about? Guessing I rolled them up so as not to die on the descents!!
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So come on let's see yours....
Me heading down into the borders early 90s
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Julie at the cheesewell
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Here you go...
these are from about 1994...
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this is 1996ish....
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and this is 1998 (still doing the lame one hander)..
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Top of Snowdon, 1992, green ronhills, steel rims, 30 lbs bike.
...helmets not even invented...
Sweet .. what shoes is Julie wearing in that pic!!!!!
How come I used to be able to do a no handed bunny hop but can barely bunny hop now!!! Love old skool pics.
Waiting for someone to post a Girvan flex stem?
If I was allowed to use tags, I would tag this as "AWESOME!"
Hamsterley, mebbe 1994/5ish
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My Trek 8500 back in 1990
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1985 - with my Saracen Conquest up near Chorley in a skinsuit.
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I was a couple of years out in the date above. This was 1989, after a ride up Snowdon on my black Cannondale, with the full 80s quiffy hair. I'm on the left.
The only known picture of anything cycling related back in the day. There are no known bicycle riding shots (but there should be some long-distance motorcycle endurance-trail pictures somewhere - although they'll all be the same: a handful of muddy, tired-out looking bearded blokes stood around mud-coloured trials bikes, on garage forecourts at all hours of the day/night). Ah, they were the days ...
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Anyway, this is my '92 Fire Mountain, within a couple of weeks of being bought - brand new (£450.00!). One of the only two bicycles that I ever bought as complete bike, and it still gets a regular seeing to.
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Munqe-chick - MemberSweet .. what shoes is Julie wearing in that pic!!!!!
Clarks girls sandals 🙂
TJ looks like she had heels on!! On that note
me (2nd back as bridesmaid) cycling to a friend's (bride at front) wedding in heels. It was flipping awesome!!
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Back on track .. there are some corkers coming out of the archives, I love reminiscing over old pics, so many happy memories.
1990 or so I think.
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Brilliant. This is what its all about. 😀
Munqe-chick, that wedding pic is what cycling is all about. I am smiling from ear to ear! Brilliant!
MC - love the classic mixte the bride's riding. What a cool way to arrive for a wedding.
You should have week state of bike shacked up in her parents out house for months minging chain...so worried about dirt on dress. Best wedding ever been to that.
Cracking photos 😀
Ecuador McMillan Challenge 2002.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexleigh/6126260321/ ]Ecuador Mcmillan Challenge - 2002[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/alexleigh/ ]Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr
When I could grow a beard that wasn't all grey.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexleigh/6126816862/ ]Ecuador Mcmillan Challenge - 2002[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/alexleigh/ ]Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr
And check out those tyres!
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Tony, that first pic is seriously steep!
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Circa 1995 ish I think
Mcmoonter to the forum...
they are the only ones i have after fotopic went kaput 🙁
Going to have to find where I put my scans I did a few months back.
Only one I have to hand.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/leecollis/5616467730/ ]My Old Rockhopper '99 Comp[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/leecollis/ ]Lee Collis[/url], on Flickr
Excellent!
No photos but I remember going to a race in Afan back early 90's and my jersey was an AC/DC t-shirt with a pouch which was sewn on by my mam!!
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Able to afford a camera 😯 I started riding at 14 old raleigh mustang sis I think, back in 88/89.
I was so poor the only photo's I have from that era, are mug shots 😉
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I wonder if I can find a CD-Rom with my old digi ones on they'll be 12 years old now at least.
Milford sound South Island New Zealand 1991....my '89 Diamondback Ascent on the back of my Ford Falcon 500 (4.1 litre straight 6 column shift....pure class with vinyl roof and beer crate holding up the front bench seat! But a great ski/surf/MTB mission wagon). The bikes still going strong as a commuter with a friend in Denmark.
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Loving the posts so far.
Here is some late 80s early 90s west country pics!
Steel is real 2 konas and a trek outside the Plough in Holford. With some ill advise cycle wear!!! I'm on the right.
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Salisbury Plain Challenge 199?? I came a cropper on those Tank tracks!
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Quantock Challenge 1991?
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Looking back wishing I was skinny!!!
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And going for it at the Cheddar Challenge in 199?
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Trying to find some scans, circa 1989 - 1992 but have just dug this out of the cupboard. Quite impressed that it's lasted almost 22 years!
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Think that would have been on a Giant Explorer and a load of us from the shop all went up in a van. Pretty sure that only one of us was old enough to hire the thing and fell asleep driving back...
1991 Alpinestars Cro-mega DX, complete with Onza porcipaws and barends. Cant see them, but got those green and purple AXO boots on too.
Serious lack of tattoos back then too!
Could do with being that slim/fit now 🙁
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Mid 90s
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1980 with mum, dad and sister
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Rockin the Evel look
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Early 70s Andover Carnival with mum (left), cousin (right)and sister
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1981 ish with Eddy Merckx racer
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Chris and Ian mid 90s Gorrick
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1980's somewhere.
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Oh no hang on, that's 2006.
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1993, BMBF race in Plymouth.
Firkin awesome, will try and find my 1989 compendium of pics tomorrow.
There is something about one handed wheelies and endo's of this era. I remember wanting to be a mix of Greg Herbold and Hans (No way) Rey.
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Ackie,
I've got a photo of me which matches your 4th photo. Some race in the Quantocks in maybe late 1991? Lots of riding across fields with a bit through the woods and a couple of banks to ride down...
I crashed on the last lap and ended up in hospital....
Some great photos... Happy days....
Alex
This is from about 1988, my brother had just got a new Raleigh Mustang and was on holiday in a caravan on the Isle of Wight, I wasn't too sure about mountain bikes so decided to buy a second hand one and go by bike, train and ferry to join him for a few days to try some off road cycling ... those were the days! (when I was skinny and fit, the bike was rubbish!)
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Back in 1990, pleased to say I'm just as skinny now 🙂
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Oldest I could find was a ~1998 SAMS at Matchams park!
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@jedi: I had a Torker 280 back in the day too. Sweet bike.
1995 Rushup Edge. Day of JMC's funeral - we had a minute's silence.
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1992 - Raleigh Lizard Days. Ron Hills, curtains, German Exchange Students.
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Nice to see others started riding in jeans too! I used to wear jeans and a rugby shirt, until I realise the mud soaked my jeans and held me back 😉
****ing love that last picture jimmy, just looks like me and my mates early 90s 
Love looking at these old photo's, so many great memories, just wish I had more photos
This was me at the NEMBA in Bosley, 1992ish. Decent down from the masts, lap 2 sports cat.
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Go on then, shown this before:
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Mastiles Lane, 'bout 1986.
Best thread ever.
Canada's highest tarmac - '95 - the last year of purple.
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From the same ride - down to a grizzly encounter, on my own......
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Tinkering on my wife"s Saracen hardrock 94/95
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Ben Nevis 98 im sure beanies were as protective as helmets back then
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Two pictures from the Coast to Coast (Tim Woodcocks version) circa 1994.
Beer and bikes. Some things transcend the decades.....
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And we were bike bivvying before it became popular (and lightweight)......
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My ankle, circa 1999. Loved those Scott Tahoe shoes. Had three pairs on the go for a while. Awesome.
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😉
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Bobs Bash Midland XC circa '95. Not me BTW!
ha!
Oh dear early bath
Ackie,I've got a photo of me which matches your 4th photo. Some race in the Quantocks in maybe late 1991? Lots of riding across fields with a bit through the woods and a couple of banks to ride down...
I crashed on the last lap and ended up in hospital....
redx I hope you recovered. I have a feeling I might won it 😯 or at least made the podium!!!
Are you a local lad?
Here is a post race pic. That's not you sitting down with the St John Ambulance guy is it?
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Tinkering on my wife"s Saracen hardrock 94/95
Ritchey Z max tyres - yesteryear's Nobby Nic
Boxelder is that first pic of yours, one from last years Kielder 100 😉
back in the day of malvern hills classic 🙂
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I like M-Cs wedding procession. 🙂
Nice happy pic.
I had a pair of them that I bought from Leisure Lakes, they were awesome. I remember the day I found out that part of the sole was removable and cleats could be used (about 2004), good shoes. I was thinking about them the other day. I want a pair again.CaptainFlashheart
My ankle, circa 1999. Loved those Scott Tahoe shoes. Had three pairs on the go for a while. Awesome.
Ritchey Z max tyres - yesteryear's Nobby Nic
Oh yes indeed but if i remember they were replaced with a pair
of bright red Macau tyres (think that was the name) terrible tyres
but she liked the colour
No photos but a film (taken off ye olde VHS) from late 90s.
Some great crashes by radoggair of this parish.
Ackie,
Not that's not me. Knocked myself out, got taken to hospital with a suspected fractured skull and ended up with amnesia for a couple of weeks.. Apparently I messed up the drop(?) but can't remember.
Grew up Somerton/Street way and was biking with a bunch of guys who called themselves the 'Mendip Rock Gorillas' who used to meet in Hunter's Lodge Inn just up the hill from Wells...
Alex
I remember the day I found out that part of the sole was removable and cleats could be used (about 2004), good shoes. I was thinking about them the other day. I want a pair again
That was a slightly different shoe, but I forget the name. Looked very similar though. The Tahoe was flats only.
Also on the shoe front, what about original Answer Flatfoots? Awesome shoe!
so annoying flickr is blocked here at work so can't see most of the pictures...
Earliest off roadin pic I could find 😉
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QE park - on borrowed F500. Early 90s
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(still can't wheelie!)
My bike in Cycling Weekly when it was a demo
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RIP Principia 🙁
Me and my mate Matt (I'm wearing Tim Woodcock's yellow jacket) doing a ride for Mountain Bike World mag.
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North Wales Winter MTB Series - early 90's
Start:
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During:
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Malvern Overview:
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Cannock Chase Classic - start and dying after (maddog 20/20 and sleeping in a public bog covered in milk is not a sensible prerace strategy!)
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Helmet covers rocked!
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Love this picture! Doubt this would go down as a good suggestion for my wedding though...
Best thread ever +2 🙂
I think I'm somewhere in that Cannock crowd. My first ever race at 15. Camped the night before, got smashed on stolen brandy and built a massive fire in the camping field. Good times!
Camped the night before, got smashed on stolen brandy and built a massive fire in the camping field. Good times!
Yer we were at a campsite, no for the race above but another CCC, bikes in tents and us sleeping outside - then we built a fire to do jumps over and then someone started a UHT milk fight - then we went on a no lights night ride around the town - got back to the campsite and the gates were shut so had to take shelter in a public bogs.. knackered, hungover stinking of milk and public bogs... then do a race - not good prep!
good times though!
Didn't mtb until 2007, but found a few bmx pics from the '93 KoD. Can't believe these are the only pics I have in 20 odd years riding bmx 😥
Classic table
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Super chicken 3
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Table 3
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Wow, you jumped a massive tree 😉
Those jumps are much higher than anything I would contemplate attempting!
This was the Sheffield round of the NEMBA race series in, I think, 1990.
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