[Closed] Retro mtbing pics - post yours

me in 1994 somewhere near Welwyn

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hey, that's when I started riding - proper old skool pic there 🙂

that's Mardeley Heath that is. I still enjoy going back.

I forgot to mention - I see your Buffalo Jacket and raise you a tasteful Millets fleece 🙂

Suprised that on a site with an average age as old as this one (37.3 wasn't it 😉 ) that there aren't more...

Racing in 1990 on my old Klein Attitude at the Bath and West Showground.

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Pffrt, old giffers.

*passes round the bovril*

You're the oldest young bloke I know ADH 😉

1985 - Brinscall near Chorley.
Posed for pic (local paper I think) after winning the Summit 6 MTB race. A young Andy Oldham in the background. On my trusty Saracen Conquest + in a skin suit!
Whatever happened to Steve Wilde who had Summit Cycles in Blackburn?

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Racing in 1990 on my old Klein Attitude at the Bath and West Showground.

That looks a bit later than 1990 to me.... ?? 🙂

Here's mine -
All from the Malverns Classic, 1993

I taught SFB all he knows!! 😉
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Rob Warner
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Dave Hemming (I think) up near the Obelisk
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Jez Avery
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My brother's mate jumping out of the bomb hole
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A scan of my Jo Burt original.... 🙂
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This is from 1996, one of the Whipstakes XC races. I assume I'd registered early to get that number - it certainly wasn't from past performance!

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I found a whole album of pics from races/riding (mainly at PORC) from 95-97ish, must get round to scanning them.

Look at the date on the photo PP. I picked up the frame from Greg Oxenham who imported them and was also the commentator at the Malverns classic and lots of other races at the time. He also owned a chain of shops in London called Bike UK I think.

I had 2 Klein attitudes (greedy I know). I still have the receipt somewhere. Greg's import business was called chainsport. Still want to to tell me its later than 1990?

Look at the date on the photo PP

My aplogies for my dumbness. 🙂 I didn't realise Kleins came in that colour so early......

Look at the date on the photo PP

My aplogies for my dumbness. I didn't realise Kleins came in that colour so early......

I'll let you off seeing as you are the nicest person on the forum.

PP that Dave Hemming photo wouldn't be Mr Peat would it?

Me in 1978

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Mr Repack, not a lot's changed has it, really? 😀 Just the details..... 😉

PP that Dave Hemming photo wouldn't be Mr Peat would it?

It could be. It looks like I might be wrong. Is that him in the front row in the Kona kit here?

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Deffo Rob Warner on the right though.... IIRC JMC was there too somewhere.

Isn't that Dave Hemming behind Steve P?

ooohhhhh its like a rainbow! Lovin the disc drive, body armour and Lyrca... Going to have to break out the scanner when I get home.

nice pic repack..
i had 1 on fotopic,cant find my account no more grr.

I didn't even know what mountain biking was when most of those pictures were taken, as for repack's one goes i wasn't born for another 2 years!!!!

One things for sure, everyone looks like they're having fun no matter what they were riding.

Malverns 93! y one and only racing experience. I binned it coming out of that bombhole 🙁 Don't suppose you bought the video that year, did you?

PP that Dave Hemming photo wouldn't be Mr Peat would it?

Yeah, and the Jez Avery pic is Dave Hemming 😉 (Jez is in the yellow top looking on).

Mr Repack, not a lot's changed has it, really? Just the details.....

That'll be the length of the brake levers then . . . check those out 😯

malverns! 1991 last time i went. flipping great time.

Yep Dave Hemmings on a fat chance by the looks of things

Here's some shoddy retro mountain bike touring photos from the 1990s I've finally got around to scanning.........

Dead Sea, probably Christmas 1989
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Sinai April 1990
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Picos de Europa, Easter 1992
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Cantabria, Northern Spain, Spring 1993
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Morocco, Easter 1994
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Central America, Summer 1995
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India, Autumn 1996
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Air - 1998 I think - BMX track nearish to Swansea (note the saddle at full height!)
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1998 Student Champs
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I'm surprised I didn't see you out on the Gower Clubber??!!

Ned from 98:
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Tinker, ditto:
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Oxy. Who knows, maybe you did. Gareth v-r was the one in the Ritchey jersey and grew up there so knew all the good trails. Keep meaning to go back some time.

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Me circa 1993 at Plymouth. Previous year I had a lycra sharkfin on my helmet - not got round to scanning those photo's in yet...

Repack Rider - Are you really Charlie Kelly? If you are it's nice to know we have MTB deity posting on here.

Oh and who'd win a fight between Gary, Tom and Joe?

My first proper mtb ride back in '96

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Oh and who'd win a fight between Gary, Tom and Joe?

All those guys can ride me into the ground, although a few years ago I beat Gary, Joe and Mike Sinyard in a computerized race on stationary bikes at a bike expo. To make the embarrassment complete (for them), I did it on a borrowed bike, in cheap street shoes with clips and straps, jeans and a t-shirt.

Of the three I ride with Joe the most, and he can still fly, up and down. So can Gary. I never ride with Tom, who lives some distance away, but I get reports.

If someone could put up a suitable sum to get those three to race each other, I would buy a ticket, because it would be plenty competitive.

Charlie Kelly. Cool. Very cool. I wish I still had my 1988 Marin Palisades Trail.

If it ever gets warm, sunny and dusty again I'm off out in jeans, shirt and gardening gloves (but I'll still wear a lid and SPDs).

M

Clubber great first photo

I thik I live my life a decade behind you

When I saw retro as the thread title I hadn't thought that discs and suspension would feature

I've worn my Buffalo top of that colour scheme in the last month!

I'll upload some photos soon

I like the way Carradice bags haven't changed in almost 16 years 🙂

Surprising lack of Bula hats in these photos so far... 😉

I'm just about old enough to remember most of it, I got properly into MTBing in 1993 when I was 16. Somewhere I've got some photos of me at Whipstakes Farm races, my mate on a fully rigid Marin with the matching purple forks and stem.
May even have some of the early MBUK issues, the ones with parachuting bikes out of planes, doing the Wall of Death fairground ride on an MTB. Oh and Bula hats. 🙂

Must dig out the pic of my P7 with Girvin's on 🙂

I love those old kliens hopster

i have a bula cap in the shed. i will never wear it ever again. might wear my beanbag black and white polkadot jersey!

With my M2 Stumpie at Thrunton ~ 97ish
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On Windy Gyle with the Raven ~ 99ish
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And retro in spirit(old bike, but last year), me & my P20 in the Peaks
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Airbourne Klunker at Dalby earlier this year
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Plenty more at [url= http://www.retrobike.co.uk ]Retrobike[/url] or [url= http://www.flickr.com/groups/retrobike/ ]Retrobike on Flickr[/url]

😉

Repak Rider - Do you have a time machine? Coz i think you look quite hot! 😀

[img] [/img]1993 cross race! You can just about make out my Kirkby CC kit and my 'pro circuit' suspension forks... XT thumbies and Giro Track Attack helmet!!!! Super fly

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1996 and best ever susser!!! Look how I concentrated! First year on riser bars as well.

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1997 oh the joy of sponsorship.... Nude carbon y bike, lockout shock, Spinergy Carbon Wheels, XTR throughtout and AMP forks!
Not sure if it is retro? But over 10 years so I think it counts?

Repak Rider - Do you have a time machine? Coz i think you look quite hot!

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All of these are 1994 I think. Moab area America

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Sue on the White Rim Trail
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Another tough day at the office for a Park Ranger
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My Knoa Kileau White Rim Trail

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Sue and I on the White Rim Trail
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Me on the Slick Rock Trail
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My wife on the Slick Rock trail

Hair needs to be shorter or tied back! 😀

Not quite MTB (well it was the closest they had in the day) but seriously retro - pre-war cyclocross pics at
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@ampthill

Amazing who you run into here. Long time no see!

(Check my profile...)

Navigating avalanche debris by the Tazy Glacier, New Zealand 1995

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Yes small World indeed elliptic

Not quite the bigest coinncidence of my life, but still a good one. The bigest is still Sophie Bowtell and Lisa Adzhead meeting at my Wedding, not knowing each other despite being in the same year at Girston for 3 years, both having rock climbing boy friends, both being horse mad and both wearing dresses made from silk bought from the same shop in Kathmandu......

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[i]Highly[/i] technical move on my S-Works Steel, circa 1993/94.

Loving the Malverns pics - went '91-93.

93 0r '4 I think
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http://www.snakebite.fotopic.net/p35224311.html stupid fotopic....

A young looking Oxymoron (Kilvey hill, Swansea 1998)

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A young me circa 1992
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and maybe spring 1995 at a SAMS race at Puddletown
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TheGingerOne

I have never seen that photo before! I used to love that descent (probably my favourite off the hill) until some farmer stuck a fence across the trail 🙁

Is that the highest res version you have?? Could you email me the highest res one you hoave please?

Oh, and I must talk to you about Christmas/New Year Exmoor bash...

Oxymoron, I'll bring the actual photo's with me when I next visit. You probably have a scanner or just more ability than me when it comes to getting them digital.

Me around '92 on my '91 Ridgeback 600 (rubbish) dicking about in Bushey Park
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And my mate George hucking the same bit of river and losing his Redskins hat at the same time
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I did some XC race near Ealing one weekend in 91-93 and I'm sure there's a photo of me sporting my fantastic Brancale helmet.