A few action shots from back in the day

aguycalled80

Retro Guru
I thought people might enjoy a few pics that I scanned recently. I believe they're from 1993, but I can't say for sure. They were taken with a very cheap camera, but some of them are actually not bad.



Quick background; myself and three of my friends all bought bikes in 1991, and by this time, I was on my second bike. My buddy here has an Alpinestars Cro-mega LX, and this is after it had been stripped by thieves. He decided to replace all the parts (rather than buy a new bike) so it's got a Mag20 (or Mag21 maybe, I don't remember), XTR cranks, Syncros BB, a Fisher Evo stem, and Scott bars.



And this is me and my '91 Rocky Mountain Nimbus. It had a Manitou fork, 3D violet Ringle skewers and a matching Bubba front hub, OnZa barends, Ritchey Logic and XT bits. And my beloved Etto helmet.







We were "extreme." And when I say "extreme," I mean "lucky to not break anything."



My other two friends had a GT Tequesta with the Nimbus paint, and a Tech Pro. I restored the GT recently, but the Tech was stolen at some point. I think my friend has some pics, I'll ask him and scan them too.
 

Attachments

  • img006-001.jpg
    img006-001.jpg
    172.5 KB · Views: 373
  • img007-001.jpg
    img007-001.jpg
    158.9 KB · Views: 373
  • 001-001 - Copy.jpg
    001-001 - Copy.jpg
    294.2 KB · Views: 373
  • 001.jpg
    001.jpg
    155.3 KB · Views: 373
  • img003.jpg
    img003.jpg
    175 KB · Views: 373
  • 002.jpg
    002.jpg
    127.3 KB · Views: 373
Proper bikes and proper riding well carrying, extreme jumps too ;-)

Do you still live near there, you could try and recreate them.
 
Re:

Thanks for those pics, some really good shots there, very cool mid-air photo! :cool:

Please tell me the jumps were at a Bmx track?? I spent far too much time bitd hooning around a bmx track on my rigid mtb :LOL:
 
Re: Re:

jimo746":1jv5fudg said:
Thanks for those pics, some really good shots there, very cool mid-air photo! :cool:

Please tell me the jumps were at a Bmx track?? I spent far too much time bitd hooning around a bmx track on my rigid mtb :LOL:

I'm about 99% sure that this is what it looks like now;

https://www.google.ca/maps/@53.541125,- ... 0SVYPQ!2e0

It used to be a vacant lot, but it was prime riverfront property, so now it's full of half million dollar town homes. But there are way better trails in town, so I don't think anyone is too broken up about losing this one jump.
 
Back
Top