[Closed] The old days

me and give steve the fiver

moi - was around in GoFar days

I win £5 for that Tony 😉

the first years of Singletrack

When is this?

heh heh heh

only cos you knew i was about 🙂

when you say the first days of singletrack do you mean like the beginning of goats and sh*t makin tracks, the beginning of us off roaders making tracks or the beginning of this magazine?

I presume you mean the mag.... To which I will answer I have always been a buyer of the mag (followed Chipps from MTB Pro and all that IPC gumpf).

Only really become addicated to this forum thing recently.

when I said Singletrack I presumed that most people would realise I meant Singletrack not singletrack

maybe I presume too much

Me.

You meant Singletrack not GoFar? Not Topica UK-MTB?

I presume thats what I meant but all these big words have confused me now

as you were....

And I took Chipps for his first (very very shit) ride around Tod, and first beer... (in the Bramsch, with Steve from Shimano, fiver for three pints... a while ago!)

Yep, wasting time here since GoFAR days - 1998??

I'm looking at a photo of you, me and Piers right now taken by some bloke or other (who lost his car keys), halloween 2001 I think

I'm looking at a photo of you, me and Piers right now taken by some bloke or other (who lost his car keys),

I've heard about these 'car keys' parties........

I've been here since GoFar too, and was one of the £10 subscribers. Forever, in internet years.

But who goes further back to the days of Mountain Bike World?

I think my first post was back in about 2001 asking about the merits of filing the teeth on an 18T cassette sprocket to make them deeper 🙄 for singlespeed use. I think the general consensus was that it was not the best idea (iirc you replied Brant) but hey, my chain never fell off and I still have that sprocket somewhere (I eventually managed to afford a proper one).

Ooooh, Mountain Bike World - I have every issue.

But who goes further back to the days of Mountain Bike World?

Pfft, newcomer 😉

Who pre-dates MTB Pro?

just after the go far days for me... so since STW started.

I remember MTB Pro starting up, and Mint Sauce as a single strip in black and white

Eeeeeeeeh, them were the days !!

Nemba,Mastiles lane challenge,Bosley ("downhill",dual slalom,trampoline injuries,"skintight" fluo lycra)Jeez,I

g

old!

Yep still riding Steve.
Logged on after a tip off from a Northern bloke who had just got issue one. I think my first copy came down South strapped to the underneath of a Eddie Stobart lorry, I retrieved at the Watford Gap service station during the night.
Was just thinking about that singlespeed gang you had in the early days, what was it called?

Anyone else do the Quantock Quest? Telford Nationals?

Nah I was a roadie back then and you lot were all scum.

Though my fondest memories of mountain biking were (some might say sadly) the Sandwell days. The scene seemed really exciting then, and you gave me some free kit for soloing your Inbred singlespeed.

anyone do the bicycle action dirty weekend?I`ve still got the tee shirt,might be worth something..

bicycle action dirty weekend?

In Harrogate?

Yeah - did that.

NEMBA 91 sticker on me toolbox, does that count?

Ooo, I remember MTB Pro. When did that stop?

when was the first issue of MBUK?, the lust started then

I remember using the rec.bicyles newsgroups, picking brains of Chipps, Brant, Yer Man Stevenson and a certain Mr. KB once or twice. They were all there!! That was pre MTB-Pro.
Then I'd send an email using ELM. Can't remember much about it all, but it was pre windows explorere I think..... '92-ish????
Black screens, white script, little hampster running round inside to power it.... hey ho.
Now look at us all!!
( leans back beside the fire and basks in the warm glow.......)
zzzzzzz
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So moving on from "who remembers" what about 9Feet.com ?

Remember the newsgroups too and briefly visited Gofar and then joined the Singletrack forum and never left. I'm pleased that Steve Makin left though never liked that lanky mancaurian ****.

Oh, yeah, I remember riding the 9feet trail but I don't remember where it was 😐

I did have have the 1st ever issue of mbuk, gave it to some one else on this here forum. If were only talking begining of STW gofar, Im out. sorry was thrashing meself on the roads on a very expensive colnago! (but Im proper retro)

9Feet trail was at Afan. now renamed as Penhyd or something ? Was a fantastic opening party though 🙂

Slightly OT, but does anyone else remember the grey Muddy Foxs' in the Freewheel catalog, early/mid '80s? I really wanted one but seemed to be alone in that desire in the road club I was in at the time. That, and Richard's Bicycle Book is what started it off for me 😀

Still got some copies of Maximum Mountainbike every issue seemed to have Guy Kesteven on the cover, did he ever close his mouth? They did a profile of me in their last ever issue. Showed Chipps GK et al around Machynlleth trails for the first time as I specced out the Mach 1,2 and 3 routes as well as showing Dafydd Davis the potential at Nant Yr Arian which got FE off its backside to make those trails, god I'm old but glad to think I've retained my humility.

I remember the old MBUK, black and white Mint, ah happy days... (rose tinted specs firmly on)

The days before trail centres, when mountain biking meant, riding up and down mountains.

Followed this site since 2002 but been riding and trail building since '82 but glad so many have enjoyed the sport-ti's only cycling 🙂

I still think of Singletack as being the new mag on the block.

Today I worked out I last had a proper road bike 18 years okay. Feels like yesterday. Time is an illusion.

The Old Days??

Thought you were gonna be referring to the days of the Fat Tyre Five events from the early eighties, and so on.

Now those were the days..

Telford Nationals Brant? A tame course in the town park with Army cadets as race marshals. Jake Elliot won for Raleigh?

Who/what was 9foot.com? I remember riding the trail at Afan and i remember the single speed world champs there - but what was the website all about?

9feet.com as a name got bought by Cotswold Outdoor, seem to remember it being a shop, but Chipps would be the one to tell you what it was.

I had forgotten about Topica,

So who remembers Mike Vandemann on the US news groups? [url= http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande/ ]hmm[/url]

did the have the internet when I started ????
I can remember Ton's peugeot hybrid (original 29er)

Starting using the singletrack forum about the time it changed over from Go-far, I deserted Bikemagic, still feel guilty

Been around since the GoFar and topica list days.

The days of the Wednesday night online chats and the xmas chat where gifts (donated by Buff IIRC) were given out by 'Santa'. 🙂

I remember going to the last three proper Malverns Fat Tyre Festivals, including the sad one where someone was killed. I had been on a MTB about 5/6 years before that. I remember my brother (peterpoddy) didn't ride his bike after that and IIRC it was a very long time before he did again.

Great times, remember first seeing a pair of Rockshox RS1's at a race I was doing.

Wasn't it a lot hotter and drier "back in the old days"?? I'm sure it was.....

only subscribe to singletrack because of mtb pro and mountainbike world...still have the last one(tear in eye), i had no idea it was going to disappear. still look back with a fondness for the font used in it...and back in the room!

[i]Wasn't it a lot hotter and drier "back in the old days"?? I'm sure it was....[/i]

Aye it was 🙂 Certainly more so than the last couple of years any way...