[Closed] Whatever happpened to Tim Gould?

I'll try again, given it's been missed 🙂 - what about Stuart Marshall?

There Was also Gary Ford who rode I think for Scott at the time

I've personally been forced into the gutter on several occasions by his huge 4x4 (ayup Gary 🙂 )

Surprised noone has mentioned Karen Van Meerbeck...

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Tim gould rode the world hilclimb champs at mammoth and won it on his peugeot

It was a Chas Roberts painted up as Peugot wasn't it?

Dave Smith-

used to ride for Kona and went on to do some magazine / publishing work on fitness/ training. He never comes on here and whines about deleting files or eating bread. 🙄

What about Sarah Jorgenson. She was/is well tidy

Surprised noone has mentioned Karen Van Meerbeck...

Karen Van Bareback

Goes for a long hard think

Hans "no way" Ray still rides for GT No?? and Tinker Juarez still rocks for Cannondale no??

Hans "no way" Ray still rides for GT No?? and Tinker Juarez still rocks for Cannondale no??

@fuzzywuzzy. I crashed at the bomb-hole too, even managed to get on the official video! That was my 3 seconds of fame over and done with. 😀

I *think* my mum bought me a pair of trousers from a shop in Sheffield where Karen Van Meerbeck was working.

Vaguely remember trying to look cool. Doesn't work when your Mum is buying you clothes.

great thread... glad to see a where are they now for some of the american superstars as well as the brits. Add Deadly Ned.

i road with McRoy with my uni mtb club out of newcastle once and he was a chilled guy and fast XC man. great shame what happended and look up his kamikazee run on youtube.

i also have a photo somewhere of one of the peugeot riders lying in the water crossing at Hamsterley when he fell off. Fab. Might have been Gould. not sure.

happy days.

I'll fill in a few I know:
Earthquake Jake died is a crash a few years back.
Julie Furtardo works for Santa Cruz bikes.
Jamie Hibbard is at Top Gear mag.
Dave Wiens is still racing. He won the Ledville hundred a bunch of times before Lance turned up.
Ned Overend is still racing and working for Spesh. ( Hopefully he has seen Spinal Tap now, eh Nick?!)
Thomas Frischknecht works for Scott-Swiss power

Insane Wayne Crosdale???

Didnt Tim Gould have some depression issues? He once said his fave band were Husker Du which made him alright as far as I was concerned.

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Didnt Tim Gould have some depression issues?

Yeah, in his words he "went a bit mad, pulled the joker in the pack" , I think it's save to say the only pro to podium in a world cup race heavily sedated!

Tinker Juarez still rocks for Cannondale no??

Steve would still like his pump back.

LOL Scruff (good morning)

Is Mick Ives still winning all the vet races?

anyone remember a guy called dave wonderly (?) he rode for gt back in the 80's/90's.
i always thought he looked cool as (he seemed to ride wearing welding gloves.
also seriously love the gt bikes from that era [img] [/img] i always wanted a ball burnished zaskar.
i did have a quick go on a gt karakoram (the orange splatter paint job one) it was lovely (but alas i couldn't afford one 🙁 just like this one in fact 😉 [img] [/img]

Those paint splattered GTs weighed a ton before you started adding suspension forks and mechanical disk brakes.

Those paint splattered GTs weighed a ton before you started adding suspension forks and mechanical disk brakes.

But if you raced in clogs, it didn't really matter.

I always wanted tomac's raleigh special products bike which if memory serves me right was a control tech prototype with tioga disc drive back wheel , look at the bike now it's angles still seem relevant ...great bike

Paola Pezzo. Did some ads for Northwave or some such. There was also that other female racer of the same vintage who used to wear short shorts and cut away tops. Ding dong.

Oh, and didn't Mike Kluge set up Focus bikes. Bumped into him in Lake Maggiore in Italy ten or so years ago.

I remember Mike Kluge taking a wee strop when he came to race in Scotland - think it was at Strathpeffer...it was a wet day and he decided to protest at the conditions. The interview he gave was a total prima donna-esque affair telling the camera that MTB racers were professionals and shouldn't be expected to race in such wet conditions as they had careers to consider...I think he might have been told to race but in his protest he got about 5m from the finish line, dismounted and walked across carrying his bike.

Strangely as I watched that race, he was the only one that seemed to be properly complaining about the weather and conditions...he needed to seriously harden up!

I thought that was Thomas Fishnets? He won the world cup event but carried over the line?

Anywho, loving this thread, proper memory lane!

I remember reading a mag back in the day where a girl was standing by a Yeti ARC and she was still attending school whilst racing mtbs for Yeti, was that Julia Furtardo I wonder..??

She looked rather good back then if I remember correctly.

Don't think it was Thomas...this would have been 92/93 - I'm sure it was the last year the World MTB series was sponsored by Grundig and was at Strathpeffer...I don't think Thomas was on the same scene that long ago...think Frishi started appearing around 98-ish?

Frischnecht has been around forever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Frischknecht

Anyone remember the young French rider I think she was called Nathalie ségura. Remember her being on one of the front covers of a magazine, very nice looking.

Is Mick Ives still winning all the vet races?

Not seen him this year...yet.

Check this out some of the above riders are in action here ,

http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/mtb/article/mtb20090713-Retrospective--British-Mountain-Bike-Championships-0

I remember Dave Hemmings visiting our home town during a big cycling event and doing a few hours coaching with about 10 aspiring mountain bikers - i loved it and i still crave after a Chas Roberts Dog Bollox

What about Missy Giove with the dead piranha she wore around her neck?? Top girl!!

However, a quick google search shows that she was recently busted with a couple hundred lbs of ganja in New York - not good!!

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For Qwerty.

He had a better Brolly 😡
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Earthquake Jake tragically died on his bike: struck a rock I think.

Shaun Palmer. Came in, won well, then disappeared.

And Caroline's Dynatech must have been made elsewhere I had had one in team colours that must have weighed 8lb for the frame alone.

But if you raced in clogs, it didn't really matter.

I never actually got round to screwing cleats into them!

I remember being in the Lantern Pike in Little Hayfield one night about 15 years ago and Fred Salmon came in. Bought everybody a beer and kept us all entertained with his stories all night. Proper good night and he was bonkers.

Great memories of watching Nick Craig and Barrie Clarke racing around the cyclo cross course in Ashton Court for the finals of the British Champs I think, a few years back. They stormed up the gravel track quicker than I ride up it I reckon.

Wasn't Ned Overend racing ultra Ironman for Specialized a few years back and winning?

And I'm sure I saw an mtb program a couple of weeks back on Eurosport that showed Frishi running a team that his son rides for. I couldn't believe when he snapped his chain at the Grundig in Plymouth in the 90's right before the stream crossing on the first lap then calmly repaired it and stormed round to go from dead last to third I think in 5 laps. Absolutely awesome.

Don't think it was Thomas...this would have been 92/93 - I'm sure it was the last year the World MTB series was sponsored by Grundig and was at Strathpeffer..

I was there, John Tomac signed my brochure, which was nice. I can't remember who walked over the line, but the course was pretty crap I'd say, a lot of it was running over bogs. Think I still have the VHS with it on somewhere...

I remember Mike Kluge taking a wee strop when he came to race in Scotland - think it was at Strathpeffer...it was a wet day and he decided to protest at the conditions. The interview he gave was a total prima donna-esque affair telling the camera that MTB racers were professionals and shouldn't be expected to race in such wet conditions as they had careers to consider...I think he might have been told to race but in his protest he got about 5m from the finish line, dismounted and walked across carrying his bike.

Strangely as I watched that race, he was the only one that seemed to be properly complaining about the weather and conditions...he needed to seriously harden up!

I think this was at one of the Rothiemurchus World Cup races, either the Grundig or the Carlsberg one.

I think it was Mike Kluge that was complaining about having to ford a tributary of the Spey. It was about 40 yards across, swiftly flowing and well over knee deep. I fell in and my bike was washed downstream. I dont know what all the fuss was about.

The pre race foodfight (pasta party) at the Coylumbridge was really the main event. Team Moont threw the first pie.

Can't believe this fella's not been mentioned yet. Any ideas people?

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Great thread by the way 😀

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpjackson70/6674920467/ ]Caroline Alexander, Newnham Park, Plymouth, Grundig Mountain Bike World Cup Race, 1994[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/jpjackson70/ ]Julian Jackson2012[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpjackson70/6674892123/ ]Newnham Park, Plymouth, Grundig Mountain Bike World Cup Race, 1994[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/jpjackson70/ ]Julian Jackson2012[/url], on Flickr

Shaun Palmer. Came in, won well, then [s]disappeared[/s] went back to snowboarding, mainly.

FTFY.

Frischknecht did walk over the line in protest at Strathpeffer, although I think his issue was more about how much of the course was rideable than having to race in the wet and cold, although I recall pictures of Tomac on the bike and him running.

For me Cross country died when a Norwegian rider who's name I forget complained about the water crossings at Newnham Park, saying Pro's could catch a cold!

@Teadrinker - thats Rune Høydahl, no idea what he's up to.

I did that Strathpeffer Grundig. The lap was about 10 miles, of which 6 was running. The weather was absolutely crap. I had to race the day before to get into the big race, sleep in a transit van then race agin in the same wet kit.

Shaun Palmer raced the Bromont DH world cup in 2009.

Seriously??? It WAS Frischnecht? Oh well, I stand corrected...was convinced it was Strathpeffer though...mainly because the first Grundig I watched the year before (or so) was at Rothiemurchus estate and it spent a lot of time filming Gould and I recall Barrie Clarke going @rse over tit on camera (filmed from the helicopter)...Strathpeffer was where the rider was complaining...whilst everyone else was riding around...actually that might have been over 20 years ago...I've wasted so much life!!!