[Closed] Hans Rey- am i missing something?

Back in your box... Hans is a deserving hero of the sport.

Not hating Rey, done loads for MTBing/world peace/chariteee mate.

Just saying that video jivehoneyjive posted sums what is cronic about him, not a trick that your average skilled MTBer could do. Roasting marshmellows etc. Makes me one to puke, how much do you reckon that video cost,the money could have gone to his charities, how many hanger on's are with him.....

When hes actually pedalling on the bike hes got shocking form,he looks old and tired. Just not sure why hes got so many sponsors still.

And the music, dear god !

What tyres for a volcano ?

Quite an accomplished rider it would seem:

[url= http://www.hansrey.com/whoishans.htm ]More Championships than you[/url]

he is a riding god... from back in the day..

not a trick that your average skilled MTBer could do

ride along a scaffold pipe, 6ft drop to flat. 2:15

kingkongsfinger - Member
Just saying that video jivehoneyjive posted sums what is cronic about him, not a trick that your average skilled MTBer could do.

Think it's the Find DVD with him and Macaskill in it - comes across in that as per comments here, nice guy and good rider who obviously loves what he does enough to still be around doing it.

Just not sure why hes got so many sponsors still.

How difficult is this to explain, Sponsors want the right exposure, Hans Rey gets them it. It doesn't actually matter whether he can ride a bike or not.

Hans Rey is like Moses.

Exactlly what he did and didn't do is hard to say, but everyone has heard of him, and are in some way influenced by what he did.

thomthumb - Member

not a trick that your average skilled MTBer could do

ride along a scaffold pipe, 6ft drop to flat. 2:15

he wasnt even on a MTB.

Sponsors want the right exposure, Hans Rey gets them it. It doesn't actually matter whether he can ride a bike or not.

shame....it should matter

Mullet and Lycra aside, he's a hero.

Surely [i]because[/i] of the mullet and lycra he's a hero. Legend from my school days. Then again Rob Warner was thought to have talent then.....and what happened to Dave Hemmings?

filks - Member

... Then again Rob Warner was thought to have talent then.....and what happened to Dave Hemmings?

Ha Ha....love it. Rob Warner ....dont start me.

[i]....and what happened to Dave Hemmings?[/i]

ST bumped into Pee Wee the other day at Interbike...

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"How's this for random? We bumped into UK mountain bike legend Dave Hemming! He now lives in Oregon and was on about buying more land there because having 12 miles of trails on his land isn't enough."

http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/interbike-2011-random-bits-1/

I cant see the point In this thread , Hans Rey has promoted mountain biking for decades and raised shit loads for African kids through 'Wheels4life' . He can obviously still ride as was evident in his video with Peaty and Danny Mac.
If you want to see how biking has progressed go search a Poster boy Andy Ruffel BMX vid from the 80's and then watch the current creme of the crop. Miles apart .
It's like comparing Bobby Charlton from the 60's to Leo Messi from the current day.

to be fair Warner was talented. just lazy and couldn't apply it. thankfully Peaty managed to have fun and train hard.

Theres not really anything to 'get' is there - he is a former champion trials rider, still riding for a living, promoting the sport and seemingly enjoying himself. Find it very hard to dislike him.

Hans Rey, Rob Warner and Dave Hemming are better than anyone on this thread. I bet they think on ones are shite too. A thumbs up from me.

Elbry Sandland, but of his time, and not from Devon

'97/'98? I remember being blown away watching him in this (he comes in around 2.20). Compare him to Ashton and Hawes in the section before though.

I'd love to have even a fraction of the skills Hans Rey has. He was doing Akrigg/Macaskill style tricks (admittedly a little tamer) before they were born.

Some real nonsense spouted above as per the norm.

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Ha! Dave Hemming. Inventor of the "Open mouthed cool guy doing a trick on a bike" picture pose in MBUK back in the day. good stuff too! haha
What happened to Zak Tempest/Brant Richards and the rest of team Mint Sauce?

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[url= http://sonic.net/~ckelly/Seekay/mtbwelcome.htm ][b]2retro4u[/b][/url]
Marin County, Cali

I have known Hans for maybe 25 years. He makes a great living riding his bike, he is a wonderful guy with a passion for life, and a good showman.

Much of the cycling world has caught up with his once unique abilities, but Hans was doing trials before Danny MacAskill was born.

If Hans makes a living riding his bike at an age when "serious" athletes have had to retire, more power to him. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just jealous that he makes money doing what he loves.

hans will always be rad in my eyes 🙂 [img] [/img]

as a big fan of Hans, i'm unsuitably biased. But the videos he's shot, bikes he has developed and designed and people he has aided through the wheels4life program speak only great things for his character and abilities.

In the late eighties he was promoting a 'lifestyle' I guess, rather than wearing pink lycra and racing around fields. I remember an ancient video where he was being interviewed at his house above a beach, and he jumped on his bike and rode out the back of his house and down some gnarly trail straight down to the ocean. At the time I was mostly whacking off over discarded jizz mags in my bedroom, or trying to do a wheelie on a 24" framed Peugeot 'mountain bike', so he was pretty rad!

Repack Rider I saw a documentary on the area not so long ago and the 'old' riders came back out on their bikes for the camera to relive and ride it again. Although it was before my time I really really liked it 8)

Also on the programme was a visit to the Chris King facility/factory but for some reason I got a negative feel from how they approached the production team (some areas not allowed to be filmed etc) and it seemed like a 'forced' persona but thats another thread I guess..

Repack Rider I saw a documentary on the area not so long ago and the 'old' riders came back out on their bikes for the camera to relive and ride it again. Although it was before my time I really really liked it

That was [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6ylx ]Rob Penn's 'Ride Of My Life'[/url] and one of those 'old' riders was Repack Rider himself...

That was it. Fantastically made, balanced and thoroughly recommend rewatching. 🙂

Yep. The book is pretty ace too if you like that sort of thing.

Seems like a pretty decent guy who has done a lot to advance and promote mountain biking and loves his job. It's rather odd to be having a crack at him on a mountain bike forum!

ITs not longer available 🙁

Reminds me of the BBC series in the Balkans 'Warriors' and another gritty London-based drama thats disappeared into the weeds. 🙁

It's rather odd to be having a crack at him on a mountain bike forum!

[i]How difficult is this to explain, Sponsors want the right exposure, Hans Rey gets them it.[/i]

This

[i]Theres not really anything to 'get' is there - he is a former champion trials rider, still riding for a living, promoting the sport and seemingly enjoying himself. Find it very hard to dislike him.
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And this.

Anyway, we've had enough videos of crap, talentless Mr Rey. Lets see how it's really done - somebody post some vids of Margin Walker.

🙂

iDave - Member
He's not Danny Mac but feeble? Hardly....

Exactly! From the same series...

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What a pussy!

Seriously STW...what a bunch o' whingers 😀

Hans Rey is like Moses.
Exactlly what he did and didn't do is hard to say, but everyone has heard of him, and are in some way influenced by what he did.

Ha Ha....love it. Rob Warner ....dont start me.

There, I've even given you a bigger shovel 😆

Repack Rider - Member

2retro4u
Marin County, Cali

I have known Hans for maybe 25 years. He makes a great living riding his bike, he is a wonderful guy with a passion for life, and a good showman.

Much of the cycling world has caught up with his once unique abilities, but Hans was doing trials before Danny MacAskill was born.

If Hans makes a living riding his bike at an age when "serious" athletes have had to retire, more power to him. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just jealous that he makes money doing what he loves.

Steve Peat, Danny McAskill, Hans Rey, [s]marginwalker[/s]

Nuff said.

This is a bit silly. He's the Bruce Forsyth of MTB. What's the point of getting all het up about Brucie even if he's not your cup of tea?

I have nothing to add to this thread. I just wanted to post in the same thread as Charlie Kelly!

Wow. Off to stalk his other threads 🙂

Oh, and Hans Rey is a great guy and a great showman. He got tons of magazine space in the very early nineties and really shaped the way that the MBUK guys took that magazine, which in turn has been a huge influence on all aspects of mountain biking.

He was a great trials rider who knew that he could take it (what was a geeky euro thing) to a wider market, and did.

Surely anyone who just watches a few videos or reads a few magazines from that era would be able to get it.

Hans Rey was one of the pioneers of MTB trials.

His moves might not be hardcore by today's Akrigg/McAskill standards, but he's still better on a bike than 99% of us lot and has made a living doing something he clearly loves for almost 3 decades, so I say fair play to him.

seriously STW.....what a bunch of whingers

It was only about 2 posters out of 50 knocking Hans Rey, so that's not really valid.

The second picture of him jumping the gap on the cliffs is unreal! 🙂

Well that's the beauty of internet forums, like the OP I had never heard of this fellow and now I have and he seems an ok dude, credit to his sponsors, so that's cool. That's the thing about being just a freewheeling free rider that doesn't read mags, doesn't do events, goes only occasionally to bike specific parks or up proper mountains, you don't get to hear much.
So it's good to read a varied opinion.

Another conclusion I'm rapidly beginning to draw though, is that anyone who the more vocal STW peeps think is a cock, is probably a totally kewell dude, and that there may be more than the average number of spotty speccy gits sitting behind spittle and semen covered screens and keyboards just looking for a chance to be nasty..

I may be wrong,

They could be bald speccy spotty gits..with a hint of green in their skin colouring.

I'll add my +1 to this:

Theres not really anything to 'get' is there - he is a former champion trials rider, still riding for a living, promoting the sport and seemingly enjoying himself. Find it very hard to dislike him.

Well said.

Need to reclaim my Dirty Tricks... VHS from my friend.

"Down, back and uuurp"

"jurst use a piece of stick or somesink"

Quick survey - who would you trust the opinion of regarding something to do with hardcore MTB?
a) Steve Peat
b) Margin Walker
c) Danny McAskill