No reason, no rhyme, just pics from back in the day!*

*Whatever the day was for you!

Jez Avery. Switzerland Squeaker. Axo Ponies. BeenBag shirt. Era defining!

Missy. Piranha.

JMC pre-Spesh. Still fast!

Been looking for an excuse to post this picture

Missy was my kids favourite baby sitter!! Now serving a jail sentence.

A Formula1! This early in the thread…! Bodes well.

Needs some Debs, though!

Malverns. ’93. Bula hats for slalom gates, isn’t it? Wasn’t it?

A Boulder Gazelle! Sweet!

Pace! Whatever happened to them, remember the first time I saw Totalitarian Tim, local dude on one, it totally rocked.

Dave Hemming, malvens 1992 i think (not sure), tioga disc drive, dual slalom, classic.

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just found some more, kielder classic report from the local paper. thats me at the front, 651!

and my bike from the year before this race.

A Boulder Gazelle! Sweet!

You noticed a bike??? 😯

Muddy Fox 1987:

is that sean eadie ? saw him race at manchester ages ago

Malverns 91 was great…
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I’d love to pull up in this

Me… 1995 California Bud Light XC race, and 1996 at the Sea Otter.

Pictures courtesy of retrobike. 😉

I had a dyna-tech, but lusted over that klein adroit after seeing it at the bike show at alexandra palace in 1992.

that klein is mint! that was the dream bike back in 92.

A young kid who came on a ride with us up the Devils Staircase.

Me

Cynical ’89

Jungle John, Noe Valley SF ’89

Dangerous Brothers up the Fungle ’85

Stuart Dangerous ’87

Kevin Dangerous on the Devil’s Staircase ’89

Me ’87

Cynical with fork and fashion issues – ’88

Me ’85

Italspark – ’87

Me on Windy Gyle, roughly 2000ish. Don’t really have many other photos from bitd

Windy Raven by ritcheyp20, on Flickr

Lol @ Young Cynic-Al! :lol:Mind you he’s aged quite well tbh.

Digger90; is that a Machine Tech front hub in that top pic?

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Air in 95

Gower 97

and my 95 Kilauea that I rode today 🙂

Me back in 1985 up near Chorley – Saracen Conquest

Top of Snowdon 1991 – Trek 8500

Caroline Alexander! She always made me climb quicker, trying to keep up with her! Nice Ules too!

I want to see retro pics of Mamadirt, see if she’s changed at all. 😀

She can’t have been any lovlier, that’s for sure. Not possible…. 😉

1995

My beloved Timberline

Note. Baggy shorts

Ules, still my grip of choice

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From when Paul Hinton came to my school. I got to ride his bikes as I invited him!

2retro4u
Marin County, Cali

@MRMO

As I scrolled through the thread, I was surprised to see one of my own photos in your post, Cindy Whitehead in Crested Butte, 1984.

Here I am on the right in 1982, when my friend and I took our MTBs on a road century ride.

When RepackRider shows up on a retro thread we are not worthy. Good to see you here Charlie.

Kleins always steel the attention in retrothreads but lets not forget that there were other tasteless paintjobs…

Is that Brian Blessed in the time trial pic 😆

Here’s a couple of me from the dim and distant past…

Coed_Y_Brenin_Aug1990 by franklini10, on Flickr

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I see the X-press shifters have gone off that Cindercone Tomaso!
Mine didn’t last long either! 🙂

I still love those early 90s Konas!

Going back to 2001/2 and after a motorbike whoopsy left me with a pined left wrist I had to put away the Mongoose SGX and ride something with suspension forks. Check out the Lovely Judy TTs (still in the shed), rear brake only, big-ringing it…

The frame snapped by the seat tube/top tube about a year after.

My friend Phil had one of these-

Which I borrowed after one house party to go and get some bacon and milk from Morrisons on. After nailing a set of footbridge stairs my foot spun on the pedal at walking pace and I’ve still got the scars on my shin today.

Loving the splatter paint jobs on the retro Konas. My first real MTB (after a Raleigh Maverick) was a Kona Lave Dome from the same year (1990) except I got the limited edition all white version/non-splatter. It was bought from Covent Garden Cycles, a shop that had a Mint Sauce mural on the wall. I also got a free pair of JT Thread glasses, anybody remember those?
Random fact I later wnet to work in Covent Garden Cycles around 1996, when it was part of the Wheely Serious group of shops.

i had some AXO Ponies 😀 they should remake a modern version, same goes for that Klein paintjob – i think its fab, would go down a treat on any fat tubed modern bike (5?)