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firsttothecafe - Member
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 used to buy my kit and generally hang around Formby Cycle Sports many years ago. Saw Matt a few times as I think he worked in the shop on the odd day.
Does anyone ever remember Keeley Lockey? I think she might have raced for Saracen.
Susan Demattei...it was me.. oh I liked her 🙂
Did Keeley Lockey not do some tv thing or other?
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Have a feeling Keeley Lockey rode for ridgeback but maybe saracen later on...may also just be plain wrong!
Edit:Actually I think it was Karrimor but also might have been both of the above as well.
I raced 91-93 in some I'd those races, my abiding memory is Caroline Alexander getting that bob haircut somewhere along the line. I was in lust. I followed her in a race once, she probably caught me or something 😆 but all I remember is blowing myself to bits to look at her 'arris. As you do when you are a young hormonal teenager. I also remember having a massive off in that Strathpeffer race, which in hindsight would have been quicker without a bike. Halcyon days, I remember lusting over those Raleigh m-trax Ti frames.
My GT Zaskar from that time period:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/beamans3/6802458910/ ]Zaskar 1[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/beamans3/ ]Mark and Kirsty Beaman[/url], on Flickr
I too remember the Grundig in Plymouth in '92 and watching John Tomac and co in action on the Pipeline. What a day out that was.
Can't believe there's so many of us on here from"back in the day". I feel quite privileged to have seen Tomac & co riding at Plymouth. The race in Teeside when the bikes where being stolen from under riders must of been 92 or later as I seem to remember that but didn't start riding til then. I also remember Matt Guy being taken of this bike when a deer jumped in to him at Margam as well.
I too remember the Grundig in Plymouth in '92 and watching John Tomac and co in action on the Pipeline. What a day out that was.
...and me! Awesome!
A bunch of us helped Schmoo organise the Swansea round of the MTB Tour of Britain. Rune Hoydahl seemed puzzled when we asked him if he wanted to join us for a curry that night.
It was a (pathetically poor) DH stage followed by a XC stage.
Strange weekend - I kept finding myself walking around with famous names of various descriptions, world champs, commentators, Commonwealth games track riders.....
And then the local scumbags stole a quad bike, despite a heavy police presence and helicopters everywhere.
I too remember the Grundig in Plymouth in '92 and watching John Tomac and co in action on the Pipeline. What a day out that was.
Great day in the sun,and big crowds.
I pringled my front wheel on the pipeline that day :cry:.
Should have had the wheels checked on my new Kona Explosif 🙄
@ McMoonter
I always liked the format of those first Grundigs,where mere mortals could qualify to ride with the Pros on the Sunday.
Has anyone heard of a French rider called Pierre Benoit? I think he was French downhill champion really early on and came 3rd is one of the early versions of the world championships. Was sponsored by Scott.
His 8yr old son is the most amazing young rider I have ever seen.
Just been looking at some of my pics these are from bosley near macclesfield (sorry for the crap pics)
Nick Craig on a steel rigid stumpy
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Tim Davis
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Tim Gould
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Bosley NEMBA was my 1st ever race, the year of the 'mud slide' I think '91 or '92. I got lapped by Rich Thackray and Paul Lazenby, It was only a 2 lap race!
90/91 i think i was pulled off my bike at bingley whilst 'leading' the fun race by a photographer.. his camera got wrapped around my onza bar ends.. finished 1st and won a black and white 'etto'? helmet.
Totalshell think I was 5th in that race, was it the one where there was a single gateway 200 yards after the start that caused massive congestion as the youths and juniors were trying to get through as the fun pack arrived, there was a guy usually just in front of me always wore a Bradford city striped football top, jez avert was also in the race.
'kin hell. The XC courses were a lot harder than I remember. 😆
I was looking at some results the other day and saw a Matt Farmer in the expert cat top 10, I wondered wether or not it was 'the' Matt Farmer from my Junior cat days?
Sam Humphreys - I think he is now a succesfull Duathlete
Does anybody remember the Boltby Bash a 2 day 3 stage race held in Boltby forest with the 50mph descent down Cracklow Slack?
Did it twice 91 & 92 great event
Still have the t shirt
I was looking at some results the other day and saw a Matt Farmer in the expert cat top 10, I wondered wether or not it was 'the' Matt Farmer from my Junior cat days?
Was about to mention Matt Farmer. Didn't he race for a uni team?
DC i must have been in the same race did a few muddy bosleys.
There was Paul Lasenby who rode for Marin.
well there is a Paul Lasenby riding for Whyte in tomorrow's Southern Champs
Keeley Lockey?
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Randomly, I saw Barrie Clark about 8am yesterday morning. He was marshaling the Fred Whitton (outside the Drunken Duck)
salsa: Used to love the Boltby Bash. Somewhere I may even still have a video of it. Nothing to play it on though.
Great thread and to think I nearly chucked away all the old grundig and tob vids not so long ago !
I recently had to throw away all my old MBIs. Had about 93 till 96....cant remember when it went. Had I known all this nostalgia was on here and still alive I would have kept them!!!! Loved reading this thread and remembering the good ol'days!!!
I just so happen to have this:
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Barrie Clarkes 1991 Team Raleigh Dynatech frameset.
Am I imagining things or didn't they pull the plug on the Malvern Hills Classic because it all got a bit nasty one year?
An image of Keeley Lockey wearing the Karrimor team skin suit will be forever be engrained in my mind. Lurvely.
Article from last year on Caroline Alexander (now married with a family, and has given up the sport)
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/sport/caroline-s-double-despair-1.980273?referrerPath=afc
Bit surprised Adrian Timmis did not get a mention as he raced with Gould/Baker/Foord etc back in the day. He runs Cadence Sport in Barton under Needwood (near Burton-on-Trent)and did a bike fit for me about 2 years ago. Saw a pic on his wall sitting down in a field spattered in mud which I recalled from an old cycling mag.
If stw could put a pic of Caroline A on the front page of the mag record sales could ensue!
I have got some vhs tapes of Malverns in 94/9/96 which I should get transferred onto dvd sometime. Steve Peat, Rob Warner etc all racing. Also Paul Hinton who was doing mtb skillz in a mag almost losing at the bombhole. Front wheel down first but saving it. Just.
Deb murrell,that's a name from the past !!
Worked for a frame builder at the time and I was the paint sprayer ,remember painting debs frame,carbon front monocoque with a steel back end,which I believe was built by Roberts .
I remember them not very happy as I put our company name sticker on the frame before I lacquered it !! , was only doing what I was told :))
Have some pictures somewhere of that 🙂
Deb is a friend of mine. lives in Lancaster now with her partner and 2 kids. That I guess would have been the F1 carbon frame with the Roberts rear stays?
The NEMBA race at langbgough on tees was my finest racing hour. A first in the trails, well joint first with will cogger and jez avery, but cos i was still only 16 i got the the top spot.
Then later on that day i bagged a second in dual event.
so my biggest ever results, and i missed prize giving! Cos i wanted a pot noodle, and can of skol!
Got all the results sheets from NEMBA 91 and 92 in the attic i think.
Blazin-saddles - Member
Deb is a friend of mine. lives in Lancaster now with her partner and 2 kids. That I guess would have been the F1 carbon frame with the Roberts rear stays?
You are correct 🙂 ... will see if i can find the pics
not the best picture, blazin-saddles , only one i could find at short notice
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Classy.
Conveniently, my post above remains relevant even after the post that it referred to was deleted! 🙂
Coincidence this should pop up, as I found some old pics and scanned them in recently.
Our top rider was John Samways. Did really well in Juniors and then Expert, but disappeared (about the same time I did). Haven't seen him since about 93. He's the one far left in the Oakleys.
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I remember the Boltby Bash - mad descent en masse, with the 90 degree right hander at the bottom...& the felled trees after the big drop should you not make the corner. Remember racing there & some guy in totally tricked out Cannondale with every bit of US made bling you could imagine. Screamed past him on the 1st descent & never saw him again. Also remember racing there & blowing front shifter very early in the 1st lap. couldn't downshift & rode the whole race in the big ring...not my best result & very sore afterwards!
I used to ride the Eston Hills events regularly too (Middlesbrough). Met JMC there & he asked about my Onza spuds, said they'd been great so far...then in icy cold race couldn't release from pedals as hit a section you had to dismount...spent several minutes laid there fighting to release my feet.
Recall Eston also had DH & XC race on same day, with one entry covering both. Recall almost taking out a photographer...main line was down a gully, but there was a ridge above, with a drop at the end, but it allowed a straighter line & more speed, except the photographer was stood there. Just missed him & think he fell in the mud.
Ahh - Eston Hills mud...the race where you turned up with narrow tyres with little or no tread for winter races. Tread was pointless in the clay on the front of the hill, but over the back, the descent back & the grass corner onto the finish line were interesting!
Loved the NEMBA & Hamsterley races too - 2 feet of water mid winter in Hamsterley...lovely!!