Old School Boyz!!!!! This is how it was done!!!
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Old School Boyz!!!!! This is how it was done!!!
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98 was hardly old school
so, there was a time when 4x didn't suck
I still consider that old school...most anything before 2001 for DH is still pretty old school, and less PJ racer boi crap. Besides, the video is retarded awesome.
No that is oldschool. the year that I started racin...
Quadra 21R w/cantis count?
Even better...the mag had an actual damping system...
I like how Steve Pete was in there. Props to him for being old AND new skool!
In my experience it had a dampening system.
98 was nuts. Boat loads of wonka wonka bikes with no real standards. Chain guides that acted more like a clutch. Crank arms that snapped daily. Magura hyraulic rim brakes with the mandatory brake booster. Rhyno Lite's. Mike Sabin tossing Maxxis tires to just about any and everybody. Purple ano. Tucking for speed. Handlebars that sheered off mid run. Oury grips w/ grip wire.
Re-badged Intense M-1s for all pros.
Re-badged Intense M-1s for all pros.
And that's why it was so much fun.
Don't forget the radabonzical DH track at Mt. Snow that year. Wide tape, straight lines and long woods sections. Goddamn I was out of my element.
my last Malvern Classic was 1995 when some dude got stabbed (and tragically died!!!) in the camping area on Saturday night, and the events were cancelled the next day...everyone started to leave on Sunday morning
there was a massive queue for cars to get out of the site, so we threw down an impromptu lake jumping event, which I sessioned on my BMX which was stashed in the back of the Bombproof Bikes team van
Steve Peat and other UK riders like Darren Tapp and Will Longden were in attendance and came and congratulated our crazy session which was keeping the riders entertained, as we gave the dude who passed away a fitting tribute!
there was a massive queue for cars to get out of the site, so we threw down an impromptu lake jumping event, which I sessioned on my BMX which was stashed in the back of the Bombproof Bikes team van
Steve Peat and other UK riders like Darren Tapp and Will Longden were in attendance and came and congratulated our crazy session which was keeping the riders entertained, as we gave the dude who passed away a fitting tribute!
Still no greater course for DH has there been. The only thing that ever snuck by the forest service. My chain snapped near the top and if I hadn't been rebooted by the crash, could have still finished with a respectable time. Passed FOUR riders in front of me AFTER picking myself back up.
Asked Lars Tribus once if he remembered and he said the same thing. Loam that was ankle deep!
The national finals in 1998 @ mount snow were off the hook fun! I have pics looking up the dual slalom course for the finals, thousands of fans, huge Chevy truck displays, back packs full of beer, cowbells and the naked crit once night fell. Those were the good years, it all fell apart around 2000-2001.
But where's the handlebars
?! Almost look like the breaks are mounted to the stem, geez how could they ride those narrow things.
?! Almost look like the breaks are mounted to the stem, geez how could they ride those narrow things.
Easy. That's what we had available then. 28" bars were as wide as we could get in '00.But where are the handlebars
I had 28's until a few years ago as well.
what about the world cup at Snoqualmie Pass WA in '98? super steep, slippery, rocky rooty gnar. and super deep loam. I was there and remember a lot of people being pissed off about how crazy it was and never had ridden anything like it.
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Peat At Last!
It’s rare that a race course upstages the racers in downhill mountain biking, but this was the case here at Snoqualmie Pass on a picture-perfect Sunday when the outrageous Briton, Steve Peat (GT) and cool-headed Anne-Caroline Chausson (FRA, Sunn-Un) triumphed in a battle against an unruly series of bumps and turns in the Pacific Northwest.
Snoqualmie Pass may not be on the longest or steepest mountainside in the world, but it hosted one of the most thrilling downhill spectacles thus far this season and raised the bar for this growing sport’s talented riders.
After cold rains in the days before the event, a drier Sunday left a fast line carved by bicycle tyres on the dark soil. Riders took their campaign for world cup points to two runs in front of 4,000 spectators.
MEN:
This was the result that Steve Peat had been promising the world for more than two years. The big Yorkshireman had run fast practice times all weekend and the ultra technical track was to his liking. He took the rocky section at the top in his stride and then calmly attacked the Black Forest, which contains the daunting "Junior Wall". This rapid-fire series of obstacles produced a flurry of finesse moves from Peat on the frighteningly steep, loose single track. He quietly leapt over the six-foot sheer, rocky drop of the Junior Wall, and with several hundred spectators lining the course cheering him loudly he hurtled onwards to the precipitous chute section, with only the faintest disturbance of the soil beneath his tyres.
So steep and treacherous was the chute that fans actually came out to watch Saturday’s practice. What few pros that could actually ride fast through here had their speed measured by the volume of the cheers, and Peat received some of the loudest. After flitting cleanly through the trees and power-pedalling the flat sections below, Peat went on to capture his best finish yet. After placing second on two of the toughest courses of all: Panticosa '96 and Mont-Ste-Anne last season, this fearless rider finally got what he had been waiting for.
"It’s rad," he said after his victory - his time of 3:55 had stood solid while Nicolas Vouilloz (FRA, Sunn-Un), Cédric Gracia (FRA, Sunn-Un) and top-qualifier Shaums March (USA, Zzyzx/Ellsworth) completed their runs. With the win in the bag, Peat breathed a big sigh of relief and said: "It’s been a long time coming but today I nailed it and I’m stoked to win... I like this course a lot and have been good in training all week. I knew I could do it today so I went for it, and it happened."
While most of the top qualifiers could have been named straight off the top of the UCI Rankings list, one Shaums March (ranked 59th in the world) surprised everybody by gaining the fastest qualification time with a ride that literally wowed the crowd in the trees. Peat himself would have been impressed by the way March hared down the Junior Wall. Unfortunately, come the final run, two crashes destroyed his rear wheel and March was forced to, er, walk stridently to the finish
It’s rare that a race course upstages the racers in downhill mountain biking, but this was the case here at Snoqualmie Pass on a picture-perfect Sunday when the outrageous Briton, Steve Peat (GT) and cool-headed Anne-Caroline Chausson (FRA, Sunn-Un) triumphed in a battle against an unruly series of bumps and turns in the Pacific Northwest.
Snoqualmie Pass may not be on the longest or steepest mountainside in the world, but it hosted one of the most thrilling downhill spectacles thus far this season and raised the bar for this growing sport’s talented riders.
After cold rains in the days before the event, a drier Sunday left a fast line carved by bicycle tyres on the dark soil. Riders took their campaign for world cup points to two runs in front of 4,000 spectators.
MEN:
This was the result that Steve Peat had been promising the world for more than two years. The big Yorkshireman had run fast practice times all weekend and the ultra technical track was to his liking. He took the rocky section at the top in his stride and then calmly attacked the Black Forest, which contains the daunting "Junior Wall". This rapid-fire series of obstacles produced a flurry of finesse moves from Peat on the frighteningly steep, loose single track. He quietly leapt over the six-foot sheer, rocky drop of the Junior Wall, and with several hundred spectators lining the course cheering him loudly he hurtled onwards to the precipitous chute section, with only the faintest disturbance of the soil beneath his tyres.
So steep and treacherous was the chute that fans actually came out to watch Saturday’s practice. What few pros that could actually ride fast through here had their speed measured by the volume of the cheers, and Peat received some of the loudest. After flitting cleanly through the trees and power-pedalling the flat sections below, Peat went on to capture his best finish yet. After placing second on two of the toughest courses of all: Panticosa '96 and Mont-Ste-Anne last season, this fearless rider finally got what he had been waiting for.
"It’s rad," he said after his victory - his time of 3:55 had stood solid while Nicolas Vouilloz (FRA, Sunn-Un), Cédric Gracia (FRA, Sunn-Un) and top-qualifier Shaums March (USA, Zzyzx/Ellsworth) completed their runs. With the win in the bag, Peat breathed a big sigh of relief and said: "It’s been a long time coming but today I nailed it and I’m stoked to win... I like this course a lot and have been good in training all week. I knew I could do it today so I went for it, and it happened."
While most of the top qualifiers could have been named straight off the top of the UCI Rankings list, one Shaums March (ranked 59th in the world) surprised everybody by gaining the fastest qualification time with a ride that literally wowed the crowd in the trees. Peat himself would have been impressed by the way March hared down the Junior Wall. Unfortunately, come the final run, two crashes destroyed his rear wheel and March was forced to, er, walk stridently to the finish
plz make bigger, k thx bye
some classy old bikes there, looks like nico or cedric on his sunn, a sintesi bazooka with a monster T fork (LOVE IT) and maybe an M1?
#2 plate and position on the bike says that it's probably Nico.
Nico, low and sucked riding style. He's also a dwarf compared to CG.
Snoqualmie Pass. I remember in one of the FOx vids, Bragging Rights if I remember right, that everybody had major trouble clearing a really steep lefthander in a v shape gully. Then Nico comes by and greases the thing like he was on a bike path. Incredible handling that's for sure!
i think i still have a pair of old azonic world force 27" bars somewhere.
I DEFINITELY still have an old MRP world cup guide that could take up to a 48T chainring.
I DEFINITELY still have an old MRP world cup guide that could take up to a 48T chainring.
I was in the video in the original post.
Not sure I care to be considered 'Old School' just yet...
Not sure I care to be considered 'Old School' just yet...
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this site has those pics, the only ones I could find on the net. of course this was the days before digital cameras were super common so mine are probably in a shoebox in my parents' attic.
thanks dude, I love it. Great photos, some of them really show how steep that section is...DH should be challenging like that again!
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