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I rode Høydahl's team NRS for a while. Loved it so much I bought my own NRS. And gave his back. 🙂
I used to love Rune Høydahl, I remember watching the MTB tour of Britian on channel 4 I think it was back in the early nineties. I remember him and Barry Clark racing away - such good times.
When I started racing the top junior was a lad called Matt Guy, he never really made it as a senior though. There was another lad called Alan who rode for Specialized as well?
Any ideas what happen to these two?
Love that second pic posted by konahead ^^. Proper MTB courses in those days. 🙂
Is Mick Ives still winning all the vet races?
Mick still does some road racing and TT's, he's held the Vetderans road race title in his age group. I remember when Mick ran MTB training camps in Majorca, there was a sort of unwritten rule that the ride back to base on the final day would gradually wind up and up and end in a mad sprint to the hotel. Mick had (allegedly) never been beaten in this until Rob Lee went on one of the camps and thrashed him. Mick never spoke to Rob again!
I finally sold on rune hoydahls old carbon giant frame the other day for £50!....
Did anyone else get their bikes stolen at the Strathpeffer Grundig race?
Overnight some stealthy thieves stole a load of bikes, those that were locked up, they stole parts from. Italspark had his whole front end stolen while he slept in his tent. I forgot to take a lock, but fortuitously stuck my Alves in the front of my pick up.
Thomas Frischknecht was featured on the coverage of the recent UCI XC world cups. He was managing one of the teams IIRC.
In the early 90's people didn't ride with clogs, they used these. Where did I put those spikes?
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Nolveen La Caer 😀
Crikey,I,v still got those sidi,s somewhere in the loft!
When I started racing the top junior was a lad called Matt Guy, he never really made it as a senior though. There was another lad called Alan who rode for Specialized as well?Any ideas what happen to these two?
Alan Gunner is the name you're looking for, don't know what happened to either of them though.
Rune Høydahl still rides, he rode in the Dalby eliminator a couple of years ago, I think. I also think he still works for Giant but again might be wrong.
There was another lad called Alan who rode for Specialized as well?
Alan Gunner. Edit, beaten to it!
Andrew Wright was another top Junior, occasionally used to turn up to club rides around Inverness. He also helped me to a second place finish in a handcap crit, letting me sit on his wheel and giving me tips as we went, all the way to the end of the race. He rode for GT and the Trek for awhile, last I knew he was studying to be an accountant but that was along time ago.
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When I started racing the top junior was a lad called Matt Guy, he never really made it as a senior though. There was another lad called Alan who rode for Specialized as well?Any ideas what happen to these two?
Didn't Matt Guy have some connection with Formby Cycle Sports and ride for Trek?
What about Missy Giove with the dead piranha she wore around her neck?? Top girl!!
Oh yes busted with 400 lbs of weed too
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-06-17/sports/17925302_1_missy-giove-drug-trafficking-marijuana
drug traficking leads downhill fast the DEA said!!! you couldn't make it up
Some quick internet snooping reveals that Rune Høydahl has his own mountain bike team [url= http://www.team-united-bakeries.no/Artikler/Team-Etto-Hoeydal-blir-Team-United-Bakeries ]clicky[/url]
Lovin this thread!
Most excellent thread.
Some of those riders were real characters.
Big smile at the " Is Mick Ives still racing?"
Frischknecht did walk over the line in protest at Strathpeffer,
Well remembered Gus,I did that race and it was grim.
Running through the knee deep mud just got to old Fishnets.
That was a fatal error shifting it from Rothiemurchus (which was a great course) ,Grundig never looked at Scotland again as an option.
Still, I did get to see Jonny T at the Plymouth round,ace.
Big helmetastic
Sue Thomas was in the pits next to me at Enduro 6 a few years back.
Lovely lady, offered me sandwiches! 😀
i still see quite a few old names about,scott dommett rides pre 65 trials bikes and was up at fort bill last weekend,seen tim davies at an odd trial as well.jough watson works as a rep for cyclesportsgroup and rides for charge doing cx.
saw hans ray at our local club trial last year still a legend.
paul hinton seems to float round various trade wholesalers,was at greyville and use.
martin hawes is doing the ssdt this week and still see longdens,peaty,warner and a few others out at various off road motorbike events.
@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 made it through the bomb hole in '94 but popped the steerer out of my crown & had a blow out on the next mini-bomb hole! In '93 I was pictured spectating in the MBUK Bombhole poster!
MBUK Bombhole poster
that was on my bedroom wall for years!
got me thinking now ,few good riders i remember,
simon kipling rode for diamond back early 90's
craig robertson ,think he's now empire bikes
gary skelding .
will cogger.
glen turner .rode for nisiki and orange,think he got into golf.
chris poyzer,think he was a carpenter for a while ,family brought in onza bikes.
still got loads of old programs/results from nemba's ,grundigs etc.
Is my old tee shirt still on the wall at Walton Street Cycles, Oxford?
It's the yellow one I took to the World Camps in Colorado in 1990. Got it signed by Tim Gould, Ned O, John Tomac, Hans Ray and a few others.
Great guys.
I saw Ruthie Mathes at the Sea Otter last month. She's still riding bikes and does a lot of junior rider development/coaching I think.
Julie Furtado works at Santa Cruz Bikes
Sian Roberts is opening a B&B near Coed Y Brenin about now I think.
Jamie Hibbard still works at Future Publishing and has just got married.
Ned Overend is still racing bikes. He works for Spesh but he turned up on a $1500 stock 29er at the US nationals last year and came 15th in the pro field. Not bad for a 55 year old...
Mick Ives features in the current issue of Singletrack 🙂
No one's mentioned Bart Brenjens - he's still around and now runs the Milka team that Annie Last races for.
Elwyn Roberts - now there's a name 🙂
No jail time for Missy:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giove-avoids-jail-time
I vividly remember watching the BBC coverage of Newnham Park. Quite a few or the riders were mincing down the Pipeline then Tomac arrived flat out, head down, elbows out, got air off the lip, landed about 2/3rds of the way down then hammered out of the bottom. Pure class.
There was a lad racing cyclo cross in the year above me at school. Think he did all right, Roger Hammond.....
In the early 90's people didn't ride with clogs, they used these. Where did I put those spikes?
Brant was referring to the favoured footwear of myself and Guy Kesteven at NEMBA races in the early 90s. Somewhere there's a picture of Guy towing me behind a tandem at Eston generating sparks.
Wish I hadn't lost all my NEMBA results when I left the ex.
Anyway, Will Cogger...
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BigJimMBUK Bombhole poster
that was on my bedroom wall for years!
Wow, I was a posterboy! 😆
'94 was a disaster, NTi didn't have a suitable MAG20 Steerer so I couldn't race. 🙄
Henrik Djernis?
Paul Hinton floated through Madison recently...
Bumped into Tim's wife (to be at the time - Jill?) in Vancouver while backpacking through there in 1996. She was getting her bike looked at in a shop on Roberts Street (I think) run by a Brit ex-pat. It was covered in lovely, shiny Hope kit; she was complaining about couriers racing her in town because she was club-kitted out. We had a brief chat about Tim racing at Mammoth that weekend; I wished him luck and bought a set of Judy XCs, which I promptly left on the Amtrak back down to Seattle.
Ah, happy days! 😀
Barrie and Sue Clarke (Thomas) live near Ulverston, and are both lovely people. Barrie is a sparky and did some work recently for my dad. I also own a pair of Hope lights that Barrie won as a prize at some event. He is plainly still keeping fit, as last year he did the Keswick to Barrow walk (42 miles) on the Saturday, followed by the Fred Whitton on the Sunday.
Caroline Alexander lives in Ulverston, in a nice house about 500m up the road from me, and is now a brunette. There's a skip outside her house at the moment, and I was about to raid a discarded Ambrosio wheel bag from it the other night until I realised it was full of builders' rubble.
I could reveal more mundane titbits of information about all of the above, but it might make me look a bit stalky.
When having a tidy out a few months back, I was surprised to find I have Tim Davies's autograph. No recollection of where that came from, possibly a NEMBA race over Dalby way. Broxa, something like that?
I went to see a band called Hyperhead in Aberdeen many years ago (bear with me... there is bike content). The singer was Marymary from Gaye Bykers on Acid and on stage he had a cracking looking Ritchey. After the brilliant concert I asked him about the bike and he said it had belonged to Henrik Djernis.
I could reveal more mundane titbits of information about all of the above, but it might make me look a bit stalky.
too late...
Great find fasthaggis.
Bring back the days when races were nearly three hours long for the winners, with some monster climbs.
I love the width of the bars in that video...
bigjim - perhaps I should have said 'more stalky' 🙂
Chris Young from the same era is rather handy on a bike, too. I remember doing a race at Broughton in the early 90s; it was horrendous conditions and he absolutely schooled everyone else. Christ knows how many times he lapped me (to be fair, I'd have been about 14) but it was enough to make me climb off, on the verge of tears.
Tim Davies is a member of retrobike and brought his Alpinestars Ti-Mega to one of the rides. Think Caroline Alexander and a few of the other names mentioned have popped up on there from time to time.
One of the original Raleigh team bikes (think it was Nick Craig's), Hemming's Yo Eddy and Tim Goulds Roberts built Peugeot are now owned by members. A chap who built all Jason McRoy's early bikes is also on the site.
Another member rode with the original Repakers and often posts up current pictures of the crew when they meet up for rides/beers.
Great Thread. A few people are loving the old GT's and Zaskars, I have a 1996 GT Zaskar LE 18 inch,Judy SL's and XTR etc. for sale, its mint. 😀
Did anyone else get their bikes stolen at the Strathpeffer Grundig race?Overnight some stealthy thieves stole a load of bikes, those that were locked up, they stole parts from. Italspark had his whole front end stolen while he slept in his tent. I forgot to take a lock, but fortuitously stuck my Alves in the front of my pick up.
I remember around the same period, we had to have police protection at langborough on tees as competitors were having their bikes stolen from them WHILST COMPETING 😆
If memory serves me correctly that was team hot pies (pre team hot pies mind) first race.. Jez, Paul & Graham.... We challenged them to a game of darts Notts v Gordies and gave them a proper good thrashing, only for Jez to go outside and throw down a switzerland squeeker.. We had nothing in our armoury to challenge it 🙁
I remember the Langborough on Tees course, not only were bikes taken but they raided the campsite and took the whole tent with everything in it. Would be 1991?
[i]CaptainFlashheart - Member
Shaun Palmer. Came in, won well, then disappeared went back to snowboarding, mainly.
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Yeah, I just meant disappeared from mountain biking. Never took to him: rode in, won NORBA DOWNHILL(?) and then left making it all look too easy.
Somebody mentioned Susan Demattei. There was an awesome bodypaint advert of her for Diamond Back in MBA that the 18 year old in me remembers fondly...
Speaking of which, anybody remember the hidden code on the contents page of each months MBA? The mag went downhill when they dropped that (as stupid as it was)...
I remember the Langborough on Tees course, not only were bikes taken but they raided the campsite and took the whole tent with everything in it. Would be 1991?
late 80's early 90's yeah... I remember now, the police had to patrol the campsite whilst we slept 😕
Horrible place.
Somebody mentioned Susan Demattei. There was an awesome bodypaint advert of her for Diamond Back in MBA that the 18 year old in me remembers fondly...
now that rings a bell. I had a Missy Giove thang going on, and 'that' pic of Paolo Pezzo was a fave too.
Yeah, Matt Guy rode for Trek and came from Formby. Kind of got the impression that he trained so much as a junior he didn't have much more to give as a senior.
I went to school, and twenty years later, I'm still good mates with Oli Beckingsale. Whilst we all know about his career, who remembers his brother Joe? Used to make races so much more interesting!