I ride mountain bikes, and I have done since I was about, um, 7, or maybe 8. My first "mountain bike" was a Raleigh Marauder, but my first actual mountain bike was a Marin Bolinas Ridge. (I shall blog about that little beauty another time.)
About the time I got that Marin, or a little before, I started buying MBUK Magazine. I kept most of them too. I dug this copy out recently, and I'm selling it on Ebay. I almost hope nobody buys it, as it'll then justify me keeping the piles of magazines for another couple of decades.
Just check it out though. Mountain biking was so different back then. We didn't know what we were doing! Everything was bright colours, because we wanted to stand out (and it was the early 90's, of course!), and the bike geometry was all about leaning forward, keeping narrow, big gears and gimmicks. Bar ends, "Power Grips", grip shift, "BioPace" chainrings, purple anodising EVERYTHING, seat bags, "DCD's", bottle cages, pumps, and toe clips.
I suppose we still have the gimmicks to some degree.
Thank God bike helmets are at least a little better looking now.
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