Hi all,
Just happened to stumble across the site, and I feel like Ive found home already!!
Im 37yrs old, have been riding and racing MTB's since I was 19 and have still got my first bike, a 1989 Alpine Stars Cro-Mega LX (the pre-elevated stays model)
My first race on my pink beauty was a Yorkshire MBC race at Tong in Bradford. We used to be regulars at the NEMBA races where we would do Trials and downhill on the Saterday then the XC race on Sunday, all on the same bike. Others included the Boltby Bash, Cheshire Classic, YMBC races etc
The Cro-Mega was soon swapped out for an Orange Aluminium O with some early Pace RC30's, this then gave way to one of the first Trek 9800 OCLV bikes in the country, again, a bike that I still have!!
I'll get some pics together of these machines in their former glory, and I reckon I'll dig the Cro-Mega out and re-build it with some of the old guff that (because Im a sad old git) Ive never thrown away.