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Re: And without remotely suggesting that a Bickerton is properly classifiable as a mountain bike, with the ultra low gearing possible it climbs better than most, and even copes with descents so long as those are taken slowly. This is descending a goat track by way of short-cut from the Valley...

Re: Crumbs – the nunchakus were that open a secret? How indiscreet of me. They were brilliant for coping with dog attacks. Sadly I had to leave them behind on one later trip, when needing to fly back from Jordan instead of continuing by land and sea. I was in the middle of travelling, back...

Re: Hey, marvellous to link up after all these years – I remember you well – you had recently returned from working in Japan when you first turned up at the shop, as I recall. Is Norman still around? I, of course, am the same as ever [so long as I do not look in the mirror].

Re: A newer incarnation, a few years later circa 1985, in the Sinai, Egypt.

Re: Guess I should weigh in here, with the first of my own paint jobs. This was intended for semi-camouflage discretion while wild camping abroad, rather than for appearance per se. Later incarnations went for a deeper green overall.

Re: Have just noticed that "Dirt Disciple" applies to me also - presumably a cute description of one's posting status? So, sorry, I meant to address "hmmhmm" of course. That isn't you in the photos is it? For so long as the shop photos are at least obliquely on-topic, this is the adjacent...

I might add that I was totally enamoured of those cantilever brakes, and went on to modify my Bickerton with some.

Dirt Disciple - that was the bike I rode in the Lea Valley event. Norman had booked me in for it, and lent me the bike the evening before. I had the one test ride from the shop back to Paddington, then rode from there to Lea Valley Park the next morning. It was a little too big for me really...

I am utterly hopeless with names, but the rider in the Diamondback top worked at Covent Garden Cycles and was, at the time at least, dating Norman’s daughter. I am moderately sure also, that the blonde rider on foot, holding his helmet in his right hand in one of my photos above, was also an...

Re: Re: That jogged dormant memories; HPV events were an exciting new development then, and we went on to to a bigger event later on the Isle of Wight which I remember vividly. I had thought the photos I recently dug up were of that later event – but prompted by your remark I went back to look...

Re: Hoping this is not too off-topic, but thought those of you familiar with Covent Garden Cycles might like this jog to the memory -

Re: Well as that seems to work, here are the rest of my photos from Wendover - apart from a couple of artistic attempts at impressionist blurs [I like them, but . . .]

Re: Well this has at least got me to work out how to install the Picture Manager on Windows 10! Wow - it worked! Thanks.

Re: Re: Thanks for the tips, will try to make it work – I had figured that my file sizes were too large, but when I went through a tortuous process of reducing them to only a few hundred kilobytes, the site still told me they exceeded limits. I had left to go travelling again by 1985, so you...

Re: I see now that the earlier event I mentioned was identified in the first post on this topic - should have started from the beginning! I have no photos from that unfortunately, but if I can figure the system here, I have photos from the Wendover event. I realise that with a year gone since...

Re: Was fascinated to come across those photos, having only just discovered some of mine from the same event. I have been trying to find out if Norman was still around, as I would love to get in touch, and a google search uncovered this site. I worked for him at Covent Garden Cycles in the...