20 Questions with Jo Burt
Welcome to the first in (hopefully) a series of industry profiles, features and interviews of various mountain Biking VIP’s. People that have been there through the ages, observing, commenting on and sometimes defining the times we all now refer to as the halcyon days of our sport.
In the first of Retrobike’s ‘20 Questions* with…’ series, we are proud to present an interview with the creator of everyone’s favourite mountain biking sheep, Mint Sauce. To those of you not aware of Jo Burt’s colourful and imaginative mountain biking timeline, check out the website dedicated to our woolly little friend, his chums and their seminal comic strip at www.thisiswhy.co.uk.
*Retrobike reserves the right to make 20 Questions with… less questions if the interviewer runs out of ideas of good things to ask. 
RetroBike: How, when and where was Mint conceived?
RB: How?
Jo Burt: I’m not entirely sure, a mix of pure brilliant inspiration and the bleeding f*cking obvious.
RB: When?
JB: Lunchtime, er, a while ago, about 23 years at a guess. Probably a Thursday.
RB: Where?
JB: Norwich.
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