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If that is JB on page 121 of Dec's STW (as in, it's taken me this long to find a shop selling it now that Borders has closed and Smiths have stopped selling it; evidence in the story would suggest it is JB, he being the one riding an orange Kona). Which made me wonder how he came up with that riding style? Did he get someone to photo him and then pshop mint over the top and think "that's it! My sheep cartoon character will ride like I ride".
And then the interview with the Charge fellow "When I rode to school on my Muddy Fox Courier Comp, it was the coolest thing to have" How did he get from Kona's (skinny tubed coolness) to Muddy Foxes (fat tubed, clunky not so cool) to decide that a combination of the two would make a fairly striking skinny tubed frame?
The original 80's Couriers were skinny steel, that's all there was, basically road tube, no specific MTB tubesets and certainly no aluminium. Muddy Fox was cool back then, if you wanted a mountain bike it was basically the only show in town, unless you could get an exotic import like a Specialized!
*Sigh* When I read things like this, where the OP has no knowledge at all of recent history that I've lived through, it just makes me feel old.
1. When JoB started Mint, Photoshop didn't exist. Most computers weren't capable of running it. If you wanted serious photo retouching done, you used an actual airbrush, either Badger or one like I used to use, a DeVilbiss, or you used a workstation based on a SunSparc with proprietory software that cost around a quarter million pounds.
2. At that time, aluminium did not exist as a frame tube material for mountain bikes. It was Klein and Cannondale who first started using it, around '87-88.
[i]2. At that time, aluminium did not exist as a frame tube material for mountain bikes. It was Klein and Cannondale who first started using it, around '87-88.[/i]
are you sure about that?
http://www.cunninghambikes.com/bicycles.html
😉
Jo does ride like Mint actually.
Just with more squealing on the tricky bits 😉
Jo does ride like Mint actually.
I worked this out in about 1992. 😀
Lets cut to the chase, how many hostages do I need to take to get Mint into this Mag?
Smiths don't sell ST, since when?
Luke - that's his brakes. Jo rides like the Stig. He floats on muddy bits to save getting his "uber bling journo in the know" kit dirty.
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Cool, obviously 🙂
Well, until I got one, anyway.
Not involved at all just stirring, seems like a thing to do.