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  • Back in the day – your photos
  • TandemJeremy
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    Post up your folks – lets have a snigger

    So I have been digging around in the cupboards scanning in old photos. a couple from a mtb tour back in the early 90s. Julie had a specialised hardrock and me an emmelle. 1,9 tyres and rigid with cantis

    We rode down to the borders from Edinburgh and along the southernupland way past innerleithan to Berwick and got the train home. Seems a long time ago now

    jeremy mtb borders trip by TandemJeremy, on Flickr

    julie cheesewell by TandemJeremy, on Flickr

    julie minch moor by TandemJeremy, on Flickr

    slugwash
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    Hopefully someday I’ll get around to scanning all my pre-digi MTB & bike touring photos from the 80’s & 90’s.

    In the meantime here’s one from 1999 of me & my rigid Condor Diablo somewhere above La Canada Flintridge in sunny Southern California…

    fatboyjon
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    Ms Cheesewell and Ms Minch Moor look identical. They’ve even got the same bikes!

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    stilltortoise
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    Not sure I have any biking pics from the old days, but I’m on wheels at least. Yosemite 1977. I was 2

    Sorry, Flickr image not displaying. As you were

    TandemJeremy
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    Pics or it didn’t happen 🙂

    stilltortoise
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    Help, why is this Flickr pic not showing?

    Family in Yosemite 1977

    radtothepowerofsik
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    I like the non cycling specific wear TJ!

    TandemJeremy
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    That was how I rode backthen – and stilldo sometimes

    TandemJeremy
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    stilltortoise
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    What did you do TJ?

    nbt
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    Didn;t start MTBing till I met Mrs NBT (it was her hobby and she got me into it) but this is me about twenty years ago

    Can you tell that this was taken before I started drinking beer “properly”?

    theflatboy
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    me in c.1997 or so, in the snow!

    MTB 1997 by theflatboy, on Flickr

    N.B. Rock Shox Quadra 21R and Giro Super Moto, plus BMX shinpads. 🙂

    TandemJeremy
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    stilltotoise – when you have the pic on the screen there is a “share” thingy to click at the top – click that, get a drop downmenu . click bb code, copy and paste that

    LoCo
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    TJ if it wasn’t for the bike ageing that photo you could be in the Famous five 😉

    No bike pics but here’s one of me and my sister for you to laugh at, when I had hair


    2011-08-06_0 by Loco Tuning, on Flickr

    B.A.Nana
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    I think this was 1994 up near the Tanhill pub, north Dales, although could be just about anywhere in the Dales TBH.

    stilltortoise
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    Cheers TJ

    Try again. I was only 2, and it’s nothing to do with biking, but I was on wheels 🙂


    Fam in Valley by stilltortoise, on Flickr

    iDave
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    1991(?), above Coin in Spain.

    TandemJeremy
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    ba / idave – thats brilliant 🙂

    TandemJeremy
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    Ok – non biking one for your amusement – who remembers the 80s? turquoise suit? Pink feather earing? what was I thinking of? I blame fatcher!

    remeber the 80s by TandemJeremy, on Flickr

    slugwash
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    Here’s one taken ten years earlier than the one I posted above ^^^

    Dead Sea on the ride heading south, 1989……

    And family cycling holiday, Brittany 2001…

    MulletusMaximus
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    Sort of bikey, of the motocross variety.
    Motocross des Nation in Gaildorf Germany in 1989 with Jem Whatley

    TandemJeremy
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    Please tell me you are on the right? The forgotten third member of Wham!

    leffeboy
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    TJ – the bike pics are fabulous and really capture the ‘back in the day’ feeling. Loadsa smiles here.

    Do you remember what the bikes were?

    I’m guessing the mcmoonter will be along with his fine collection in a bit

    TandemJeremy
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    Leffeboy

    Mine was an emmelle. I could have sworn Julie was riding her hardrock but it looks to be the wrong colour

    JoB
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    form an orderly queue ladies

    stilltortoise
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    I so wish I had some piccies to share:

    – Biopace chainrings
    – Shark fins
    – Hanger Bangers
    – Fluoro bar ends (can’t remember who the big brand was)
    – Panaracer Smokes/Tiogas/Porcupines
    – Big walking boots, checked shirts…

    …rose tinted spectacles 😆

    MulletusMaximus
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    Please tell me you are on the right?

    Apparently ‘that was the look’ in motocross circles!! What do you expect, I was an 18 year old in the 80’s. 🙂

    For mx bods, the hat was signed by Rick Johnson, Rob Herring and Jamie Dobb.

    B.A.Nana
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    We used to do lots of climbing/mtb trips, mtb for the wet days. My weapon of choice was a GT Timberline.
    This is Scotland somewhere around Aviemore 1994/95(not quite sure what I was prating about at) and up Liathach on the same trip (me on right).

    MulletusMaximus
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    From Wham to crusty indie kid with dreads in 3 years.
    Reading 92.

    bellerophon
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    Back in the day for me is late 90s as I only started MTBing in 1997, so here’s one from 1999 (I think) of me and my friend Russ:

    MOD: Image removed due to malware

    This is on the Iron Lemmings (Black Mountains \ Brecon Beacons) and this bit as you can see is a bike carry, and if I remember correctly a 1000ft vertical climb… some points to note:

    – I have no hair
    – We wore lycra (still have those mt500s)
    – My bike is a Marin Wolfridge
    – some chaps kept their helmets on 😯

    clubber
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    Some great pics though TJ’s suit tops the lot

    A chilly day in 1995 – with buffalo jacket in full effect! 🙂

    A fantastic day riding The Gower in 1997

    jonspaker
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    Hi
    I am newbie here and love biking!

    But i’ve no any old photos to share myself here.

    GlitterGary
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    clubber – Loving the Proflex 856/7! I also remember that Richey jersey too.

    Great thread 🙂

    Alex
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    That photo with Russ. He tried to get me to do the Iron Lemming. Sooo glad I neshed out 🙂

    Ecuador 2002. Macmillan Challenge. Just finished. Pacific behind. I’m the gurner on the left.

    Ecuador Mcmillan Challenge – 2002 by Alex Leigh, on Flickr

    Proper bike, mid 90s I guess

    Noisy Bikes’n’Stuff by Alex Leigh, on Flickr

    Movember 1991 – Snowden

    Snowden-1991? by Alex Leigh, on Flickr

    clubber
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    Yeah, I remember it being delivered (we were students – it was my housemate’s) – Royal Mail just left a £500 frame in the entrance hall 😯 No signature, nothing. Good bike at the time (it was the 856 with ODS – oil damping!) and the GLS – Ground Linking System raised some mirth as its owner did indeed never get his wheels off the ground 🙂

    That Ritchey jersey’s still in use – spotted it on fb the other day where my mate’s still riding in it over in NZ where he lives now.

    kudos100
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    buffalo jacket

    I always wanted one of those!

    TandemJeremy
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    edit

    Alex
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    Ta TJ, just fixed it. God twice. No one deserves that!

    clubber
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    The buffalo jacket was rubbish – at least, for me – it was just way too warm. I used it about twice in really cold/snowy conditions. I think it’s still buried somewhere at my parents’ place.

    bellerophon
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    That photo with Russ. He tried to get me to do the Iron Lemming. Sooo glad I neshed out

    We did it twice 😯 Should’ve come Alex I’m sure you would have enjoyed it 😉 2 days, 130miles, 16000ft of climbing if my rose tinted glasses serve me right

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