so how long you been at it?

mrfmilo

Been biking since I was a 5/6 but only started 'proper' MTBing August last year (10 months)

bike-a-swan

I've been on the bike as long as I can remember- spent my childhood and teenage years exploring the local area. Only get into it seriously about 4 years ago when I bought (gasp!) a road bike. A year later and I was back to riding off road loads.

So- three years 'seriously'.

x-isle

Rivington is great, it's where I did my MIAS training. Didn't realise there was so much rocky natural terrain there.

kaytronika

I learned everything I know at Rivington....

Basically, the location of the cake shop.

meesterbond

Got my first 'proper' mountain bike back in the early '90s... a fluro green Muddy Fox Courier Comp... fully rigid (natch) and it was far too big for me...

Then a hiatus of 5 or 6 years and started again on a Kona Blast in the late 90's...

Happy days...

stubs

Built an off road bike in the early 70s it was a BSA 24 inch wheel frame with a 26 inch front wheel squeezed in fitted with motorbike trials handlebars, touring pedals with teeth cut into the steel with a file for grip and normal tyres. Had a great time on it exploring disused railway lines and the occasional trip on the train to Westhoughton to go riding at Rivington. It was as close as to MTBiking as we could do though we didnt call it that and we had never heard the words mountain bike.

In 1983 my brother went on a trip to the USA to see our uncle and came back raving about All Terrain biking. We both got ATB steel frames built by a little old fella who worked in a shed and had a welding torch and a frame jig made from scaffolding poles. I sprayed mine British Leyland Apple Jack Green and my brothers was Vauxhall Victor Maroon.

Had a mountain bike of some description ever since though in the late 90s it was in the shed as a climbing frame for spiders for about 4 years while I was on my travels.

supersonic

First went to Wharny on a bike in 1994. First proper MTB was a Diamond Back Traverse.

nicklouse

Started getting muddy on a road bike late '70 but been on 2 wheels from the early '70. got the first Ridgeback ATB in about '84.

sparky750

About 3 days now I was really into it as a kid about 17 years ago first bike was a carrera something had one or 2 giants a marin bear valley i think, also a muddyfox that i snapped the rear fork on (big drop off ) Loving my new GT aside from the sore arse and the fact my mind remembers flying around where i've been riding this week but my body is no longer able :oops:

piker

Back riding for about six months and getting my fitness up on an 09 carrera fury,last bike i had was as a kid and was a raleigh activator complete with forks that moved about an inch,thought i was the dogs danglies.

Richie63

A Ridgeback 603? at the end of the 80's then a TREK 970 which I hardly used and still have(with original brake blocks still on) in 1991/2 ish and stopped riding.
Started back riding again a couple of years back and since then I've got 3 more mt bikes and a road bike :oops: