15 years? Blimey.
RIP JMC, an inspiration to many of us.
Inspiring rider, RIP Jason
RIP
RIP a true legend .
Ride free . . .
Crikey - time does fly but the memory lives on for those of us who have been riding for long enough!
I just read the story he sounded really dedicated what a sad loss.
RIP JMC
Time to get the DIRT video out again (ahh those were the days)
ooo, good call, think I've got that somewhere too. RIP indeed.
He was amazing, saw him at one of the bike shows in Olympia once but didn't have the nerve to approach him, I'll always regret that. He died on my birthday, I remember I just had to go out and ride when I heard the news. Going to have to watch Dirt later!
RIP JMC...
live to ride, ride to live..
cant believe its been 15 years... 🙁
Inspiring rider and amazing person, RIP Jason
A huge loss. RIP.
ONe of the main reasons i started mountainbiking (in 93)
Just realised I don't have a VHS player anymore. Shame was gonna have a Dirt & Getta Grip session when I got home.
It's not been fifteen years, surely?
Ride Free.
I got into mountain biking as an impressionable teenager in the late 80's - biking round Hamsterley, Kielder, Chopwell Woods etc in the north-east, and to me JMC was a God. Brilliant cyclist (BMX, mountain biking, track - everything!) and just one of those people that seems to have been universally loved, admired and respected. Not many people can say that. I'm the same as SpeedyG in that I was at races with him but never approached for an autograph or a chat - hey ho, I regret that too.
RIP, a hero and a legend for me, and I'm sure others.
I remember it even being all over the news, they showed loads of footage from mammoth I think.
He was a great rider, a really good laugh, and a perfect son to his proud parents.
Jim and Rose, my thoughts are with you today.
15 years... 😯
My god, FOund my copy of dirt in the loft the other day, but the video (also in the loft) had long since stopped working...
An amazing rider that a lot of us aspired to, and truly gutted when I heard he'd died... I dont know if anyone remembers but the August edition of MBUK someone had written in complaining that there was too much JMC in the mag after the huge satory of him living in california (how to clean my teeth with JMC, how to eat my breakfast with JMC), a month later he wrote back in apologizing...
Cant believe that was 15 years ago, we even had a summer in august back then too...
ditto to all the above. He was a great man. Such a loss to UK mountain biking. A true superstar. RIP
i asked one of the young scamps i see when out riding if he knew who JMC was...no idea whatsoever,
i remember watching the vids and seeing him in MBUK and wanting a chilli paintwork on my halfords appollo! 🙂
JMC – was an inspirational character in the relatively early days of the sport – I was lucky enough to watch h race in the NAMBS & NEMBA races in the early 90’s – a real talent – still sadly missed – Ride Free
RIP mate.
I started mountain biking in '93 and for me, what this guy did was what mountain biking was, is and will always be all about.
Legend
My VHS still works so I'll be watching DIRT this evening. I think it's all here inlow res on youtube too: [url=
YOU TUBE[/url] A truly shocking lack of crash helmets and body armour 😉
RIP. One of the first riders I saw that made mountain biking look exciting.
He could've gone on to be one of the all time worldwide greats like Peaty had he not been taken too soon.
On my first day of college a guy I'd just met told me what had happened. I could barely believe it so I phoned MBUK to confirm.
I still have a signed poster somewhere from Bike '95.
Has no one copied Dirt to DVD or put it online somewhere?
RIP JMC
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Yup. RIP. (Ride In Peace - I can't believ he understood the word "rest"...)
The bit I remember from DIRT - he's just thrashing along a grass bank next to a road - nothing gnarly, but he's giving it full beans and looking like he's having the time of his life. How biking should be - flat out and grinning.
JMC - Peaty's hero.... what more can you say?
I have DIRT on an MBUK DVD somewhere so I will watch it then
I am going riding tonight whatever the weather..
Does make laugh at all the 'what tyre' threads on here now...he was riding a hardtail in DH events, and doing the Kamikaze without body armour.Now that's the true spirit of mountain biking!
Q - why aren't you wearing body armour
JMC - well i don't intend to crash!
Started mountain biking early 90's and Jason was the MAN,cant believe it's been 15 years...jeez, yep i'll be another one watching Dirt tonight
raises coffee!
15 years. Wow. I remember calling around to Foulds Terrace and the mood in the house was all wrong. I then found out what had happened. Although I never knew JMC, I saw first hand how much he meant to you.
My first mountain biking hero. Probably my first hero in general (alongside some of the stars of the early-mid 90s Halifax RLFC!).
Ride Free JMC.
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RIP JMC, an inspiration to many of us.
definitely - was then when i was a youngster, still is now i'm not. legend.
Does make laugh at all the 'what tyre' threads on here now...he was riding a hardtail in DH events, and doing the Kamikaze without body armour.Now that's the true spirit of mountain biking!
here here
Rip jason, sad loss
More than half a lifetime ago for me now. I still remember picking up that issue of MBUK and being in shock for days.
I can still remember hearing the news in the MBUK office when I was working there. We were just going to print with MTB Pro and I had 20 minutes to sum up his life in a paragraph. Mind you, it would never have been enough time... I went on his ten year anniversary ride in the Peaks (five years ago then...) and saw Mr Crud, Peaty, Nick Craig and Jason's parents.
Great guy and rightly it seems he'll always be remembered, and remembered fondly.
Rubbish tandem stoker though 🙂
He's one of the reasons I ride bikes. A true hero.
Still young, still fast, "Ride Free".
SB
He was my hero when I 1st started riding, which was bizarre as I was 14 years older!
Still salute whenever I go past Woodhead.
I had a poster of him in the team MBUK strip on my wall for years as a kid, the first issue of MBUK I ever bought had a feature on JMC and Sophie as the new team.
He was an inspiration.
he was a friend
a big mac today in his honour
