Old School Heroes

Vini
Vini Posts: 4
edited February 2011 in MTB general
Can anyone name some old school MTB heroes from back in the day (early 90s etc). Trying to write an article on them. Ill start you off:

John Tomac
Ned Overend
Jason McCoy
Missy Giove
Greg Herbold
Jez Avery
Hans Ray

Who inspired you to ride?

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  • ricardo_smooth
    ricardo_smooth Posts: 1,281
    Rob warner

    Will longden

    Martin Ashton

    Martyn hawes
  • Vini
    Vini Posts: 4
    Good ones. All great stuff. Remember seeing the 'two martins' for the first time. Blew my mind. Any more welcome....
  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    Adrian Timmis
    Tim Gould
    David Baker
    Caroline Alexander
    Dave Hemming

    Some old school XC names for you.

    Rob
  • mattbibbings
    mattbibbings Posts: 95
    Can I offer a correction. McRoy rather than McCoy. Thanks

    Few more names,

    Tim Davis
    Tinker Juarez
    Thomas Frischknecht
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Rob Warner, Steve Peat, Hand Rey, the Marty(/i)ns, Mint Sauce, Shaun Palmer, Missy Giove, Adele Croxon (spelling?) Dave "the Lemming" Hemming.
  • stu8975
    stu8975 Posts: 1,334
    I used to ride with Jez 'Switzerland Squeaker' Avery....he's still doing bike shows.
    ANTHEM X
    Youth
  • vmgscot
    vmgscot Posts: 120
    Julie Furtado
    vmgscot
  • welshkev
    welshkev Posts: 9,690
    how come only yeehaa has shaun palmer? the guy changed the face of DH riding :D

    and hans rey is awsome, i remember watching him at the bike show at the NEC years ago. brilliant :D
  • Superfli
    Superfli Posts: 17
    Because Shaun Palmer was up his own ar*e - the guy even had his name tatoo'd on stomach :roll:

    Tim Gould was the man.
    Nicolas Vouilloz
    http://www.qecptrailcollective.co.uk
    09 SC Heckler, custom build
    RockLobster 853, custom build
  • NatoED
    NatoED Posts: 480
    Barry Clark (XC racer) , Rob Warner , Fletcher Gillet (rode for Ellsworth) , Steve "G" used to ride for spooky. Who was the guy that rode up the Kamikaze in Bear Mountain?
  • Arkady001
    Arkady001 Posts: 201
    ahhh...Missy Giove...
    With that mad hair - my minor claim to fame: I take full credit for christening her Missy GLove and thus inspiring a minor Jo Burt cartoon sticker (her face with a Nick Park 'Wrong-Trousers' stylee rubber glove in place of her dreads) which I had on my old Fisher Promethius...
    http://www.rkdphotographic.com/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/arkady001/
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    No Nick Craig? He's still out there racing - and winning. He was in my local cycle cafe yesterday, too.
  • themanfromdelmonte
    themanfromdelmonte Posts: 46
    I was inspired to ride by being fat :lol: .

    But rider wise, Brian Lopes.
    2007 Giant XTC 4.5

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Superfli wrote:
    Because Shaun Palmer was up his own ar*e - the guy even had his name tatoo'd on stomach :roll:

    Tim Gould was the man.
    Nicolas Vouilloz
    See, Palmer changed the face of DH racing, then Vouilloz (as great as he was) changed it in a more boring direction.
  • Harry182
    Harry182 Posts: 1,170
    Cadel Evans

    Alison Sydor

    Tinker Juarez

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