1990

[Supratada]

I was 21, working near Covent Garden for an QS/Architects for my year out after my degree. I was still living at home and the company paid for my travel so all the wages were mine to spend or save. I spent it all, a lot of it chasing an ex girlfriend to no avail.
No debt as it was all student grants back then, I had my road bike and Tufftrax I had bought in Tooley Street. I used to cycle up to Mile End climbing wall sometimes too, or go out to Tunbridge area for the sandstone climbing.
I was fiercely anti-car, until I got one a few years later, now I'm a petrol head.

 

[Grannygrinder]

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I was enduring the second year of my YTS apprenticeship in Bricklaying and associated studies on a whopping £31.50 a week :shock: up from £28.50 a week in the first year
Driving a ridiculously quick signal yellow mk2 escort, usually only until tuesday as by then i had run out of money, then riding my muddy fox for the rest of the week
Closest i got to riding out in the mountains was evenings in with a rather busty girl who worked for the ordanance survey

 

[GT-Steve]

was driving a S1 RST,

Always thought you were a good guy fella, but that's just raised meteorically in my book...

One of the finest cars ever to wear a Ford badge in this country, IMHO, and the only hot Ford ever to allude me.

Problem is now, the bloody price of a decent one...

 

[Neil G]

I was 15 and doing my GCSEs and avoiding revision by going out constantly MTBing

 

[chiswickcollectables]

Wow what a year!! Pop was in a white three door Sierra Cosworth, mam was in a 5 GT Turbo... I was 13, I had a Tamiya Egress a Muddy Fox Courier Mega and a Local Motion bumbag filled to the brim the Mojos'....... yup, I was the man!!

 

[Ernie]

Myself and Mrs Ernie got married..still together..21 glorious years

Ernie

 

[lewis1641]

in 1990 i was too young to have any real worries. i was discovering the local trails and quarries on my falcon pathfinder. i had no thoughts of cars or girls and life was simple in our 3 bed ex council house in north lincolnshire.

within 5 years i had discovered vw's, bikes and girls and my life has gone deeper downhill ever since

 

[mattbrown]

1990 - aged 11/12 - september of that year started secondary school (on my 12th birthday) being ribbed about still riding a bmx as all my mates were riding crappy mtb's

 

[claret73]

1990? Just about to bomb out of my 1st year A Levels in English Lit & Art & Design...Got a Bollocking off my Mom as I never told her & ended up with a YTS Apprenticeship in The Print Trade...& so begins Chapter 1 of the book I should really write...