How many years have Singletrack World users been riding Mountain Bikes?
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How many years have Singletrack World users been riding Mountain Bikes?

December 7, 2025

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Mark Alker

Singletrack Owner/Publisher

Mark has been riding mountain bikes for over 30 years and co-owns Singletrack, where he's been publisher for 25 years. While his official title might be Managing Director, his actual job description is "whatever needs doing" – from wrangling finances and keeping the lights on to occasionally remembering to ride bikes for fun rather than just work. He's seen the sport evolve from rigid forks to whatever madness the industry dreams up next, and he's still not entirely sure what "gravel" is. When he's not buried in spreadsheets or chasing late invoices, he's probably thinking about his next ride.

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69 thoughts on “How many years have Singletrack World users been riding Mountain Bikes?”

  1. Started in 1991 on my uncle and his mate’s spare bikes (Claud Butler Pagan and Marin Palisades Trail), then got myself a Muddy Fox Alu Lazer in 1992ish.
    Had a break for a good while (was still riding BMX and DJs) from around 1995 until I bought a Demo 8 in around 2007 and have stuck with it since then.

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  2. Late 80’s for me with a Stumpjumper but there wasn’t much to do with it back then with no mates riding them! Swapped it for a Vitus 979 road bike then got back into MTBs early 90’s with an Alpinestars Cro-Mega

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  4. It was either a Muddy fox courier or Rockhopper that seemed to be the bikes to have back then, if you had a few more pounds to spend a Stumpjumper 
    If you were a bit tight or maybe skint an Emelly/Diamondback 
    If you were more of a land rover bumpkin type of person a Raleigh maverick might be your choice although I had a Road Ace back then and it was a cracking road bike

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  5. I had a Road Ace back then and it was a cracking road bike

    I had a Raleigh Pulsar. I was all set to buy my first (Raleigh) MTB and a family friend called Aidan Leheup (Iditarod/Polaris accomplished competitor) who worked in my LBS talked me out of it, saying they were rubbish (he wasn’t wrong), so I bought the Pulsar with panniers. 

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  6. A trip down memory lane… First MTB was a Dawes something in yellow/white that I stupidly left alone for a couple of minutes against the window of the fishing tackle shop while I popped in to buy bait. After getting told off for allowing it to be stolen and a suitably long wait until I could persuade my parents I could be trusted with another bike, they got me an Emmelle Cortina XL in purple/blue/white that I managed to keep for ages. Yes, it got stolen a couple of times, but I got it back both times. I think I gave it to my sister’s boyfriend in something like ’98 or ’99 so he had a bike.
     

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  7. Mucked around riding bikes offroad throughout secondary school in early/mid-90s. Proper MTBing from around 2002, the same time I first logged on to STW in the uni computer lab. Still riding the same trails now. 
    2003:

    23 years later:

     

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  9. Rather depends on what a mountain bike is. Off roaded a lot on a tricycle (with mum on her Raleigh shopper) during adventures and visiting granny in about 1965, progressed to a Raleigh single speed, which went everywhere, big gap when I discovered off road motorbikes then rediscovered bikes via a giant terrago in maybe 1990 or so and constantly since then. 

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