1992 hardtail downhill nutters ….you have to see this! haha

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1992 hardtail downhill nutters ….you have to see this! haha
cp
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i don’t think they were pros at all – looked like a local race.

‘some of them look too serious to be just doing it for fun…’

Have you looked at some riders you come across these days???!

Posted 14 years ago

oscillatewildly
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haha 😆

good point i guess…..

i didnt mean serious as in clothes etc, i meant serious as in ‘i dont care if i die WHEN i fall off’ types…..

the terrain really doesnt look harsh at all for modern day bikes, so i can only guess its solely down to shite bikes in the 90s 😆

those couple with rear wheels with covers on, i remember pepsi doing a bike similar to that in 90s 😆

truly shocking

Posted 14 years ago

matt23
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I can see an evening of bidding on e-bay for the inagural ‘riding HT rigids down a steep hill while dressed as prats championship’ being down tonight……I wonder how much a raleigh 1992 :lol:Apex goes for on e-bay??

Posted 14 years ago

tortoise5
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Aaah… Halcyon days. Proper downhilling. Non-technical (relatively!), steep and f-a-s-t.
None of this namby-pamby slow technical drop-off rubbish.

Makes me want to dust off my old fluoro Alpinestars Al-mega, along with non-hardshell polystyrene lid (fluoro helmet cover de-rigeur) and show the youngsters what it’s all about. Or not.

Posted 14 years ago

RagRage
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a workman cant blame his tools ..but in this case…………

Posted 14 years ago

walleater
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…….and fast forwarding to more recent times 😀

Posted 14 years ago

Blazin-saddles
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those couple with rear wheels with covers on, i remember pepsi doing a bike similar to that in 90s

Blasphemy! That my friend was a Tioga Disk Drive, objects of immense desire back in the day, if only for the noise they made.

Posted 14 years ago

shortbread_fanylion
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Great vid….but did anyone pre ride the course at all?!! A lot of the riders don’t seem to know what’s coming up at all! Or is that because the bikes and brakes were so gash, ie, they couldn’t stop?

Posted 14 years ago

oscillatewildly
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i think the more you watch it, the more savage it actually looks as a hill, i mean some of them were hitting it at speed, and ok bike may be stronger/better made now etc, but a couple of completely bent wheels, handlebars completely smashed/bent over, and the way sheer amount of times people obviously crash on the same bit, they cant all be rubbish riders, they just clearly dont care about crashing, they are travelling at some speed on mega rigid bikes on probably quite rocky steep stuff with shit brakes, no grip on rock hard tyres etc etc….

i actually really like that video, some of those guys are ‘well hard’ just get up and want to carry on!

invisble hats off squires!

Posted 14 years ago

Starrman28
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What year is that first clip, later than 1990 as one of the guys was riding an RTS GT…unless I’ve lost a few year sthey didn’t arrive til after 94..

Cracking vid, that hill is steeper and nastier than it looks.

Posted 14 years ago

granny_ring
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Funniest biking clip I’ve seen cheers 🙂

Posted 14 years ago

seven
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Can I just say thanks to OP. That was great vid and a great thread

Posted 14 years ago

CaptainFlashheart
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That my friend was a Tioga Disk Drive, objects of immense desire back in the day, if only for the noise they made.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOMPH!

I remember Darren Tapp having one back in the day. Not the fastest, but always looked good!

Posted 14 years ago

chrisrhayes
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LEMMINGS. That bit towards the end by the bridge and road are priceless.

What’s the quote from Withnail and I

“They are throwing themselves in the road glady” or something like that…

Posted 14 years ago

40mpg
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Reminds me of the Malverns Classics 🙂

Oh and the last few mayhems re-enacting halcyon days on a rigid singlespeed 🙁

Posted 14 years ago

seven
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A proper downhill bike and rider from the time 🙂

Posted 14 years ago

grumm
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Awesome

Posted 14 years ago

gordimhor
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I was that dayglo lycra covered numpty, I am now a lardy numpty in baggy shorts 😆 THEY ARE ALL HEROES 😛

Posted 14 years ago

clubber
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Brilliant 🙂 IIRC in those days I probably crashed about as much as all the riders put together…

Posted 14 years ago