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Postby dobbin33ch » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:42 pm
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Postby Mulger bill » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:29 am
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Postby trailgumby » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:10 pm
About my age...toolonglegs wrote:Tinker...how old is that man!.
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Re: mtb legends
Postby bob2200 » Fri Jul 15, 2011 7:47 am
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Re: mtb legends
Postby Repack Rider » Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:50 am
Filmed in California in 1979.
Re: mtb legends
Postby trickle » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:08 am
I cant believe the greats likeTom Ritchey, John Tomac,Ned Overend, Missy Giove (the missile!!!), Myles Rockwell etc have not been mentioned!
Miguel Martinez is a fav of mine also, loved watching him and Cadel go for it back in the day. Miguel comes from good breading stock, dad was a TDF stage and KOM winner!
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Postby HAKS » Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:22 pm
I was going to say him, remember having my wall covered in posters of him on his Sunn bike in the late 90's. Anne-Caroline Chausson was the other one that popped into my head. Rode for the same (Sunn) team. Then comes Missy Giove, she was also a bit of a wacky one . Think i had a few pics of Paola Pezzo on my schoolbooks as wellMulger bill wrote:Overall, prolly Nico Voulloz (sp) Frog DHer
Re: mtb legends
Postby trickle » Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:08 pm
Holy crap!!!Repack Rider wrote:Here is the first video ever shot of the sport them would eventually be called "mountain biking." The hippie in the picture below is named Gary Fisher, and he predicts that the sport will go a long way.
Filmed in California in 1979.
you are THAT guy!?!?
Thank you Mr Kelly and thank you to your fellow enthusiasts for without your involvement our sport may never have happened.
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Re: mtb legends
Postby alchemist » Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:50 pm
He gets around.trickle wrote:
Holy crap!!!
you are THAT guy!?!?
Thank you Mr Kelly and thank you to your fellow enthusiasts for without your involvement our sport may never have happened.
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Re: mtb legends
Postby trailgumby » Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:13 pm
http://sonic.net/~ckelly/Seekay/mtbwelcome.htm
Thanks for sharing... I had no idea
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Re: mtb legends
Postby WarrenH » Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:59 am
"In 1907-08 he cycled from Melbourne to Sydney and then, via Brisbane, Normanton, Darwin, Alice Springs and Adelaide back to Sydney, where he was thereafter based. In 1909 he published the story of his feat, Lonely Lands, which he illustrated with his own photographs. That year he set a new cycling record for the Fremantle to Sydney continental crossing, then in 1910-11 rode around Australia. In 1911 he was accompanied from Sydney to Darwin by R. Primmer, cameraman for the Gaumont Co.: Across Australia was released next year. Birtles had continued on to Broome and Perth, then lowered his record by riding from Fremantle to Sydney in thirty-one days. By 1912 he had cycled around Australia twice and had crossed the continent seven times."
Much of Birtles' journying wasn't done on roads ... there weren't roads. He certainly is the Legend when it comes to off-roading. He followed stock routes and when there weren't routes he followed his compass. He was also the first white man seen by several northern tribes, who even tried to kill him on a few occasions. A true Legend.
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Postby WarrenH » Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:01 am
Warren.
"Paved roads ... another fine example of wasteful government spending." - a bumper sticker.
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Re: mtb legends
Postby biftek » Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:47 pm
or a power bandWarrenH wrote:Another shot of Francis Birtles ... how could you not be an MTB XC legend when you look like this. I'm guessing that is a compass on his wrist.
Warren.
holy !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !! , what an affort
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Re: mtb legends
Postby silentbutdeadly » Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:34 am
Sadly....the days when we could easily and legally mount a sawn-off rifle to our front forks are long gone.....WarrenH wrote:Francis Birtles.
...but I will definitely bow to the Birtles.
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