Mountain Biking


The only picture I have of my mountain bike racing days

 It all started when we all bought Mountain Bikes back in 1990. Jon and I started this chapter, we went down to Two Wheels bike shop in Amblecote and bought 2 Muddyfox Path Finder mountain bikes, these were £350 which in the day was quite expensive so we vowed to get our moneys worth from them. Col our Cousin but also one of my best friends, wanted to get into mountain bikes as well so went to Halfords and bought a Peugot Mountain bike.

 We had our local 15 miles route that took us mostly through the countryside and along the canal tow paths. But we also used to put the mountain bikes into my 1985 Vauxhall Astra and head out on adventures further afield. A favourite was Clun Forest. This was a area which had routes specially for mountain bikes. However the last time we went there we were involved in a head on collision in the car on the way back. Some guy in a Rangerover  bounced off the bank and into my poor Astra, but it survived for another 5 years of ownership.
 Col and I wanted to push our hobby a bit further so took part in some races. We did the Cannock Classic 2 years running. The 1st year we arrived about 30 minutes earlier than the race was due to start and were preparing the bikes as a crowd of other lycra clad cyclists lined up at the starting line. A siren sounded and they all left. We took our place on the start line and asked the marshal how long till the amateur race started, he said thats it just left, this was the race we were in, there were 284 entries in this class and we started 283 and 284 giving them about a 2 minute head start. We took off at great pace quickly catching the rear of the huge pack. One thing we were good at was going down hill fast, as there were some pretty good downhill sections we passed alot of them, I remember catching up with a guy on a Cannondale which as we were climbing a long hill he told me had cost him over £2000, I said this was only £350 and left him behind. We finished Col in 100th and Me 101st.
 The next time we went we had prepared better, Jon, Stuart, Martin and Dave joined us for this one, I remember passing Martin who had a puncture and stopping to give him my pump to blow up his tyre.
 Out of us Col was 1st, Phill(Me) 2nd, Jon 3rd, Stu 4th, Martin 5th and Dave last. This was one of the last times we saw Dave on these trips as "his bike needed to be jigged" an excuse we all used to laugh about.
 Col and I did 1 more race, at Bushbury Farm near Wolverhampton, there were 55 entries and we came Col 23rd and Phill (Me)24th.
 As time went on, only Col and I used to ride the mountain bikes, but one Sunday morning we met a guy Called Doug who invited us to join him and his mates the following week. We toured lots of areas within a 50 mile radius of where we live and had some great times with Doug, Rosco, Richard and a guy we cant remember his name.




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