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Re: Denial...or how to live with a retro habit and love your Don't forget GROWING OLD IS COMPULSORY BUT.... GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL :D

Whiskers, a roadie shop in Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire often has all sorts of odd gear including mountain bike stuff. They have amazed me in the past when I asked "I don't suppose you have any 7 speed Shimano MTB cassettes in stock" their answer was "which ratios do you want?" So old school they...

Think I've still got some American Classics, most probably in my "box of tut that might come in handy one day" If I recall I had a set of anodised blue but one broke and I acquired a white painted one to replace it. However they never worked as well as Shimano QRs.

And who was principal sponsor of Mad Cow Racing???? (well I supplied the horns free of charge)! :roll: And who usually paid for the petrol for the van ('cos Graham never had any money)? And more all day breakfasts in Little Chefs than I care to remember ('cos none of you ever had any...

Wrote an article for MBUK back in 1993, they even paid me for it! Me! A published author :D

My Ex Brother-in-Law had some.... he fell off a lot! Soon switched to SPDs...... he still fell off a lot! Oh how we laughed :D

OK OK to make amends, here's my ghastly entry too!

I knew I still had it somewhere! See I do know someone "famous" Mad Cow Kev as he appeared in the March 1993 Edition of MBUK :D Kev, you're gonna kill me for this aren't you!

Kev you wait till I scan the photos! On the subject of Tomac and Plymouth, I once refused him an entry at registration because US Cycling had forgotten to include him on the list of US entries. A few trans-Atlantic faxes eventually had it sorted out! Now if we are going to name drop...

Maybe so but don't forget SPD's have been with us since 1991, a whole 16 years! Remember seeing them first at the very first NPS at Blandford Forum in '91, think that was the first time I saw a pair of Rock Shox too. Other naff retro ideas: Flex Stems? Biopace rings? Cutting...

We were talking about this amongst all the race officials at the Fort William World Cup a couple of years ago. Of course we have all got tales of "famous" riders we have had brushes with, been insulted by some we even consider friends and those we have been drinking with. We were going...

Hopefully the organisers have already booked mine, I shall be on duty again this year. Hopefully we'll bump into each other.

Me? A 1989 Raleigh Mirage (one up from a Maverick I think) 501 Reynolds frame Exage Country group set Luckily it was a late one so didn't have the awful U brake under the chain stays. Oh what memories!

Hi Michael, long time no see! And hello to everyone else. Just arrived thanks to Mad Cow Kev. Funnily enough Retro bikes are a popular subject amongst some of my fellow race officials, usually in the hotel bar at Fort William each year. We keep talking about holding a "Classic Race" but...

No pics of the 'dale but here's my Scott

Not just Flouro, what about..... An Etto helmet with fluffy ears? Axo Pony boots (wasn't green and purple a lovely mix)! A cross bar pad (flouro compulsory) One of those shoulder rest frame bags? A bix fat flouro Mt Zefal pump? Oh I could go on for hours! This is me by the...

Such cheek young Kev! Not "one of the Mad Cows" but the founding father of Mad Cow Racing! Sorry guys but I won't be retro, the 1993 Cannondale is currently set up as a single speeder and given my current level of fitness I need all the gears I can get. :D Well I suppose I will be...