bagpipes
Old School Hero
Hello all, Kevin here from Ontario Canada. Wow what a pile of information to be found in here. I checked out this site while trying to find some info on a 1986 Rocky Mountain Blizzard and I was floored at the knowledge oozing from this web site. I joined and will be sticking around to hopefully get some tips on UK riding. I visit the UK normally once per year if not twice. I just left Seven Oaks in Kent last week and was also up in Glasgow while I was there. (I have close friends in Kent and my family is from Glasgow)
I do have 2 retro rides, the 86 Rocky Mountain Blizzard and a 1992 Rocky Mountain Equipe. The Blizz is 100% original other than the stem and headset / the Equipe is totally updated as it was just a frame when I bought it but it has been stripped, powdercoated and is being re-decaled this week. (The Equipe is my winter bike .......... love the old school steel and that wishbone seatstay. The Blizz will be for riding with the kiddies and as a commuter bike)
Anyhow, some my cringe here but I also have a 2000 RM Oxygen and a 2004 RM Slayer for some more technical riding and to give my tailbone a bit of a break. Old shcool is cool but the new technology gives my back the recovery time to enjoy the steel hardtails like I did when I was 18.
My first "real" MTB was a 1996 KHS Alite 1000 followed by a 1991 Mongoose Hilltopper. KHS was ridden into the ground, and the Mongoose sold on e-bay. There were plenty of the department store 50 lbs + bikes in there too. I suppose we've all had those at some point.
Cheers!!!!
I do have 2 retro rides, the 86 Rocky Mountain Blizzard and a 1992 Rocky Mountain Equipe. The Blizz is 100% original other than the stem and headset / the Equipe is totally updated as it was just a frame when I bought it but it has been stripped, powdercoated and is being re-decaled this week. (The Equipe is my winter bike .......... love the old school steel and that wishbone seatstay. The Blizz will be for riding with the kiddies and as a commuter bike)
Anyhow, some my cringe here but I also have a 2000 RM Oxygen and a 2004 RM Slayer for some more technical riding and to give my tailbone a bit of a break. Old shcool is cool but the new technology gives my back the recovery time to enjoy the steel hardtails like I did when I was 18.
My first "real" MTB was a 1996 KHS Alite 1000 followed by a 1991 Mongoose Hilltopper. KHS was ridden into the ground, and the Mongoose sold on e-bay. There were plenty of the department store 50 lbs + bikes in there too. I suppose we've all had those at some point.
Cheers!!!!