1990

[Supratada]

16, at the last year of school, getting heavily into the electronic music scene, deciding between girls and Lego - the Lego won

earning around £250 a week in cash working overtime at a little Tesco

owned a Rover series one SD1 V8 and a Bickerton Mean Green 200GS mtb with XT upgrades and a heavily modded Raleigh Sprint with a close ratio rear cluster, tubs and Mavic bull horns.

I mostly cried a lot too.

You had an SD1 when you were 16?

 

[skinnyboy]

I was 16 -17, living at home, working for the YTS whilst doing my BTEC in this new fangled IT malarkey. Had a Peugeot bike from the grattan catalogue that lasted all of a few weeks until i realised it was utter pants and changed it for a Claude Butler something or other. Fast forward to today and I live in Australia, have done for 12 years, I have a house and a greek wife, a couple of cars a boat and a backroom full of bikes and pretty much happiness. I do miss going for a blast round Delamere but when the sun is shining here even a poor man smiles.

 

[The Ken]

Only thing I drove back then was my Kyosho Turbo Burns

Enid, where did you race the Burns? I must have been driving my Mugen around at that time - raced every weekend at Gracemount.


1990 - Single, working - could afford to take a month in Oz so things weren't too bad I was still living like a student - most my wages went on drink, I loved single malt at the time and drank far too much, music was madchester and rock. Nights in the Mission night club.
Hair was still a bit 80's...

 

[eg2]

I was 8, and if my memory serves me correctly, pedaling about on my Raleigh Striker BMX bike, possibly after I insisted upon my father respraying it in fluourescent green...

 

[kaytronika]

11 years old, bombing round the street on a small Falcon road bike... Frequently falling off the pedals and landing on the top tube.

I'd yet to discover the joys of mountain biking, although I had seen one or two which looked to be made of pig iron.

 

[REKIBorter]

1990 ... newly married, mortgaged up to the max with a house worth less than the mortgage. Driving a blue MG Metro Turbo with full Janspeed system. Still waiting to discover MTB's

 

[saltyman]

woah...1990.....dont think i had pubes back then let alone a MTB, think i was 10yr old.

was into my BMX bikes then though, never a day went by when i wasnt riding one thing or another.

 

[velomaniac]

Just realised I was not going to be a nurse, failed exams and had to leave Dundee to go back to my parents......major downer.
Discovered mopeds, less effort than 10 speed racer and slid into motorcycle appreciation.
Escaped parents and went to Glasgow for a science course.
Singularly failed to get off with any women despite loads in nursing and on science course.....another major downer.
No idea about mtb's full stop.
No debts though, no student grants back then

 

[grahame]

I'd just finished my MEng degree, and was about to set off to cycle from New York to San Francisco with two of my best ever friends, before starting work for the company that had sponsored me through university and given me 8 weeks holiday pay (saved up from not using all my holiday when "working" between university years) to fund the tour.
No debt, no car, no mountainbike (I discovered them in the Rockies on a "rest day" on the tour).

 

[legrandefromage]

16, at the last year of school, getting heavily into the electronic music scene, deciding between girls and Lego - the Lego won

earning around £250 a week in cash working overtime at a little Tesco

owned a Rover series one SD1 V8 and a Bickerton Mean Green 200GS mtb with XT upgrades and a heavily modded Raleigh Sprint with a close ratio rear cluster, tubs and Mavic bull horns.

I mostly cried a lot too.

You had an SD1 when you were 16?

Yes, a manual one too. My mate looked slightly older due to his glasses so we would drive around are estate lighting up the back wheels whenever possible.