Singletrack Issue 1 – Michael Bonney (Orange Bikes) interview

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Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Way back, in Issue 1 of Singletrack Magazine, we interviewed Michael Bonney. As friends, family, and the industry mourn his passing, look back fondly as he takes a guess, in 2001, at how mountain biking will develop. Intro From the depths of deepest West Yorkshire, a Victorian factory building is alive with the hiss of welding torches and the sounds of huge machines bending great sheets of aluminium into odd…

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  • PimpmasterJazz
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    I have this issue… Bought from the bike show at the NEC. I seem to recall asking for a job as a designer as well.

    Posted 13 years ago
    PimpmasterJazz
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    Many congratulations on 10 years guys!

    Posted 13 years ago
    crispedwheel
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    that’s one quality mullet for 2000 (2001?)

    Posted 13 years ago
    Richie_B
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    Knew it would happen eventually recycling articles just like the other MTB mags (I’ll give you credit that your timescale is a tad longer than some of the others)

    Posted 13 years ago
    lagrange
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    Nice one – I have a P7. I like the quote:

    ‘ I think mountain biking as a sport has levelled off.’

    …don’t think I agree with him 10 years on!!…

    Posted 13 years ago
    prettygreenparrot
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    magic, I remember that article.

    Posted 13 years ago
    themightymowgli
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    Ha ha! The fastest he’d ever gone down hill was on a tandem!!
    It is startling how quickly things have moved in the last decade

    Posted 13 years ago
    kelvin
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    T E N Y E A R S !

    *typing this on my PowerBookG4

    Posted 13 years ago
    chipps
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    Look for more from the archives in the next two or three months. We’re not officially ten until April 1st 🙂

    Posted 13 years ago
    Alb
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    If that’s what 10yrs in the cycle industry does to you I’m outta here! 🙂

    Only kidding – grow it back Michael!

    Posted 13 years ago
    hh45
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    the first article i rememmber was about riding in the shadow of three different nuclear power stations (Quantocks, Snowdon and Lake District I recall) that was in an issue given out free at the Schwinn 100 in September 2001. Was that Issue 2?

    amazing how pessimisticly wrong MB turned out to be.

    Posted 13 years ago
    singletrackjon
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    Just you wait – the Power Station feature was Issue 1. It’ll be up on the site too…

    Posted 13 years ago
    shaunm
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    The turbo mini incidentally still lives. It’s in Holland at the moment getting a restoration and conversion to left hand drive.

    Watch out dutch cyclists.

    Posted 13 years ago
    JCornford
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    I remember receiving a couple of boxes of your first issue to help distribute and get your name out, I can’t believe it’s been 10 years!

    Posted 13 years ago
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