November 2011 marked the 20th Anniversary of my first mountain bike race.

Thats two thirds of my life, almost 150 races, countless miles, a lot of punctures, a couple of good results and A LOT of entry fees 🙂

Included in amongst them are some amazing highlights – the first ever UK 24 hr race (it rained the whole time!), 10 of the last 11 Roc D’Azurs, 3 different XC World Cup Courses and a whole bunch more.

I’m quite proud of that history really.

Here’s to hoping I’ll make another 20!

Good going. Hope the next 20 are just as good.

Nice one – quite a racing history.

I realised recently that it’s been 25 years since I started mountain biking (I’d been riding off-road for years on bikes my Dad had rescued from the tip, but for the first time I had a ‘proper’ mountain bike with Farmer Johns and everything). A quarter of a century doing something I love (and not getting much better at it) – got to be happy with that.

Corroded – Like you I cant really remember when I started actual ‘mountain biking’ but it cant be a lot before 1991 (my first race) as I was 11 then!
What I do know is that it was on the Quantocks and I’m still not bored of them!

Adapting bikes for offload started in 1979 for me, not what you would call a mountain bike but it’s still messing around in the woods on a bike.

Happy 20th birthday Richie

First mtb when I was 16 I think so not hit mtb20 just yet.

Adapting bikes for offload started in 1979 for me

adapting? I just rode a racer round rivi, slick tyres n’all. Scary and was constantly getting my wheels trued 🙂