Not pictures OF Retro Bikes (although they are always nice to see 😉 ), but pictures of you and your mates riding your bikes ‘back in the day’.
Dodgy fashion is most welcome as are dodgy attempts at jumps etc….
Here’s a couple of mine:
That’s me in the mid nineties on my first Club Roost ‘downhill’ full susser. I broke it at some point later that year.
Yes, yes, purple jeans were all the rage…..
My mate Lee on his newly aquired RTS3, we were at Penshurst Off Raod Club and the big start ramp had just been built…
My mate Phil messing around outside my parents house on his Kona Fire Mountain. We should have been doing our school homework, but the weather was too nice for that 😉
Note my dad’s lovely ‘faded gold’ Austin Maestro parked in the background…
Lastly, me again. On my resprayed 92 Marin Bear Valley SE. The original paint was the matt light grey graphite paint work- i sprayed it up in this fetching battleship grey with red graphics. Maybe i should have kept it how it was…
Fantastic thread. Inspired me to dig out some negatives and scan them tomorrow, in between actually doing some work… I do believe I have some photos of me and my mates in the Pyrenees covered in several weeks of road and trail dirt.
Mind your eyes – here comes some 80’s lycra, my first Muddy Fox, circa 1988…..
And one from 1996 on the NATS summer solstace ride with the essential Peak District weapons of a Clockwork with Pace forks. This was about 6.30am at Ladybower, after a 4.30am start at Bamford. And if you recognise him, yep that’s Paul from Cotic at the front.
😉 – great to see proper bridleway’s in proper mountains… I did a lot of kielder classic races and the pics remind me how wet and how much fireroad there was/is.
Let’s not get all rose-tinted about this – as much as I had some brilliant rides/trips exploring ‘proper bridleways’, I also had some utter crap and miserable ones where what looked promising on a map was a several hour slog through mud/tall grass/etc…
Let’s not get all rose-tinted about this – as much as I had some brilliant rides/trips exploring ‘proper bridleways’, I also had some utter crap and miserable ones where what looked promising on a map was a several hour slog through mud/tall grass/etc…
Correct 😉
I still have rides like that today, the explorer never left me and i still ride down a trail just to see if it’s rideable. Often about two miles in i’ll realise it was a bad idea!
Also rim brakes were crap, no two ways about it! I took my Cinder Cone out in the snow last week and had to re discover ‘alternative’ braking methods 😆
I still have rides like that today, the explorer never left me and i still ride down a trail just to see if it’s rideable. Often about two miles in i’ll realise it was a bad idea!
As does every mountain biker I’ve ever met. The hand wringing about people not getting out and exploring anymore is such guff…
Me binning it, think i was in Abbey Woods in SE London. Anyway, those cut down jeans and shell suit top should have got me locked up by the fashion police!
nah he was just there, we weren’t “honch” enough for him. Met him in Maccy D’s later…I could eat more than him….
I have strong suspicions he was a tool. – he used language like “honch” plus he ran risers with bar ends… his bike was an abomination…. ah yes with triple clamp sids… oxymoron if ever there was one.
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