Twenty years ago….What were you riding?

Orange Clockwork

One of these:

See what it says on the top tube there? “Team”! I could have been on the team with that bike. Practically the same thing as what Tim Gould was on. That guy was such a climbing god, especially doing it on a bike that weighed over two and a half stone…

Twenty years ago I was riding a woman who now sadly looks like she’s wearing a fat suit. Facebook destroys happy memories.

I was on either an Orange Prestige or a Kona Explosif.

In 1993/4 I was the proud owner of a shiny Marin Rocky Ridge 😀 ahhh how I miss those Rockshox Quadra 21’s and STX RC gears and brakes.

In 95 I upgraded to my 1st Stumpjumper, with Judy SL’s and Mountain Speed springs instead of the Elastomer / Spring combo (Now that’s fork technology progression!!!).

I also still have a Continental Traction Pro Dual stripe tire in the garage from back in the day 😆

In 1993 I had one of these.

Had a ’90 Marin Eldridge Grade (with scratch-proof grey paint), then saved all the summer of ’93 for an Orange Clockwork LX. The frame is currently hung on the wall in the garage having split/cracked at the rear dropouts last year, having been my commuter bike for the last few years. A truly great bike.

I was riding a Dawes Lightning road bike, I didn’t buy my first Mtb (Marin Palisades) till 94 as far as I know.

One of these fine steeds:

I rode it yesterday too

What was I riding 20 years ago?

Vicky. And very lovely she was too.

Oh what bike? I have no idea!

Marin Pine Mountain frame with RC35 forks

No pics tho

i had only just been born! This thread makes me feel very young indeed.

1993 – bought my first MTB as moved to an area with great rides out of the door – was a Diamond Back Sorrento – so nothing special – passed a guy riding one a few weeks back and felt bit ooh

Loved this bike went everywhere on it. I remember it was very light for the time.

I was riding a Dawes Roughtrade in 1993 ,I still have it in the garage.If I bothered with a new cassette,chain and freehub body it would be ridable

One of these in white:

one of these:

Like an E-stay bike, but the designer got the concept wrong…

Except it was branded a Puch, not Bianchi. And I repainted it, by hand, very, very badly.
Luckily it got stolen and a replacement Saracen was bought by the insurance company.

In the interests of history and bad taste (at times!) – 20 odd years ago I was riding the Fisher Celerity on the left (the HUGE Dawes was my dad’s)and apolgies for the poor quality pics but they are just scans.

We start in 1990:

Then it progressed (?) to:

It then ended up like this for a while (I did mention bad taste, right?!)

The Celerity took a break for a while when I then rode this until I took a break from mtbing and when I started again I cracked the head tube on it! (As seen and mentioned on the previous page of this thread)

Finally, the Celerity came out of retirement and lives on it’s best guise yet:

Marin Palisades Trail in blue bought new sometime in the mid/late 80’s when I was a teenager.

I actually wanted the flouro yellow Muirwoods which was cheaper, but they were out of stock or something so my dad upgraded me since he’d promised me the bike for ages. I spent so long trying to decide between the light grey frame with flouro yellow fork and stickers or the all blue with white stickers. Went with the blue in the end because the washed out grey wasn’t nearly so cool as the darker greys and metallics that came later. I never fancied the paint splatter and fade jobs that were otherwise so common.

The thing is though, despite the mtb name, I had no idea that off road trails existed, or even bridleways for that matter. I grew up in central London, and the bikes were cool due to the cycle courier, muddy fox, flouro yellow thing. Still I did discover cheeky paths hidden in the shrubberies in Battersea Park! And I loved riding along the Thames towards Richmond.

red universal sierra 24″ wheel.

20 years ago I was on a Spesh Stumpjumper like this one. I bought it in September 1992, and it was about this time in 1993 that I bought a pair of Pace RC35 forks for it. God I loved that bike.

I remember that green Stumpy Mr Yetiman 8) It was lovely.

In 1993 I had one of these with Manitou 3 forks.

Lovely bike to ride but it broke… just like the two 1992 Blizzards I had before it 🙄

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Followed by my mum coming back from a car boot one day with one of these:

One like this (still got the bike too)

raleigh apex, it’s still in my dad’s shed…

Lethal in a cross wind!

Must dig out proper old pics of it.

Still in the garage, soon to be put on the turbo.

It was called a Kobra that’s all i remember. It was blue, and cost 130 pounds.

The sofa. With Stella contact points.

A Kiss Miami Deep Thought. It was an offshoot of Muddy Fox in some description. Tange Infiniti tubing, the same as the Orange Clockwork at the time, Suntour XC Ltd group set, Suntour hubs and Araya rims. It had a lovely cracked yellow on salmon paintjob. I saved half the money from my paper round and my parents paid the rest, it was a toss up between a neon yellow Marin Bolinas Ridge or the Kiss Miami, which had miles better kit and frame. My parents were reluctant to spend so much money on a bike as my hobbies never lasted more than a month, 22 years later I’m still in love with bikes. The internet throws up next to no information on the brand but I rode it into the ground. Me and my friends also launched a mountain bike team ‘Team Crud’ 😀

Proflex 853 here.

20 years ago from next month or so I’d have replaced my Raleigh Amazon with a Raleigh M-Trax 500 I think it was, like this one here anyway. ooh titanium.

Orange/white fade Orange Clockwork for me 8)

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20 years ago…. Cannondale M800 replacing the woefully inadiquate Offroad Pro-Flex 750

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20 Years ago I was riding this…

And about to buy this…

And still own them both 😀

this

and clearly not the only one on here that was, although this has had some work done to it, I like having semi-working brakes these days.