theredchili
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1990 Orange Clockwork 
what was your first 'proper' mountain bike!?
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aces2splash
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My first "proper" MTB was a 1983/84 Fisher Mt. Tam fillet brazed by Tom Teesdale then painted custom camouflaged. Ah the memories.......
AdrianStreet1973
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Well, perhaps its debatable whether it was a proper MTB, but it felt like one to me at the time - 1988(?) Peugeot Alpina, Graphite Grey, 15spd Friction shift.
If that doesn't quite cut the mustard then its my 1991 Black with Red writing Specialised Stumpjumper. I really wanted the grey Comp version, but it was too much at the time. They only paid £27.50 to start on YTS!
If that doesn't quite cut the mustard then its my 1991 Black with Red writing Specialised Stumpjumper. I really wanted the grey Comp version, but it was too much at the time. They only paid £27.50 to start on YTS!
First bike I went mountain biking on was my dad's old steel shopper - no really - with 20" wheels and 3-speed Sturmey gears on the back. I hammered that bike and it's still running, to this day.
First proper mountain bike was a '92 Kona Cinder Cone, bought from a classified ad in the back pages of MBUK in '95. Advertised for £150, it needed new wheels and drivetrain so I cheekily offered £100 and it was accepted! I must have put thousands of miles into that bike, rode all over the Lakes as well as daily commuting duties in Leicester. I was absolutely heartbroken when it was stolen.
First proper mountain bike was a '92 Kona Cinder Cone, bought from a classified ad in the back pages of MBUK in '95. Advertised for £150, it needed new wheels and drivetrain so I cheekily offered £100 and it was accepted! I must have put thousands of miles into that bike, rode all over the Lakes as well as daily commuting duties in Leicester. I was absolutely heartbroken when it was stolen.
Baron von Trumpen Bottom
MacRetro Rider
Emmelle cougar in met grey parents got me it for Christmas in 88 thought I was great as one of the only kids in the area to have one. Wasnt so smart when the crank arm &pedal kept falling off for some strange reason soon got relegated to the hut and binned sometime between the early 90's and the 00's shame as my parents werent flush and paid a bit for it at the time.
Shogun Prairie Breaker - a 2nd hand pass-me-down. Went over the handle-bars more times than I can remember - it was just wrong but a real mountain bike . Had quality upgrades of a Kalloy alloy stem, yellow Rolls saddle, plastic wheel disks and a cheap Chinese Girven flex-stem rip-off (essentially a hinge with a rubber door stop).
Finished life with two botched canti-lever welds, split rim, slipping chain, kinked down-tube and the forks bent back. I was still using the knackered thumbies only a few years ago (with a glued on Stella Artois bottle cap). Wished I had kept the cranks, but to be honest I don't miss it.
PS: Photo not mine.
Finished life with two botched canti-lever welds, split rim, slipping chain, kinked down-tube and the forks bent back. I was still using the knackered thumbies only a few years ago (with a glued on Stella Artois bottle cap). Wished I had kept the cranks, but to be honest I don't miss it.
PS: Photo not mine.
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kikideparis
Retro Guru
I started in 1990 with a 89' muddy fox courrier, as I could remember it has tange tubing, araya rims and suntour mechs, sugino white crankset and dia compe brakes...loving memories
voodoorider
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mechagouki
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1988 Peugeot Atlas, Reynolds frame, biopace chainrings, I felt like I had reached the peak of cycling technology. Stolen after less than a year.
