Gerg H & Miyata

[tintin40]

Cool Mr H

 

[retrobikeguy]

your in Melvins favorite neck of the woods now

 

[tintin40]

The last picture is my fav. He sure liked the all in one suits. And those colours :shock: :shock: Please turn the volume down

 

[Elev12k]

Hi,

I suit like in the last pic I saw offered on Japanese auction site Yahoo Auction recently :shock:

The 1st pic is showing Greg on a Koga Miyata RidgeRunner (1989) and the 2 other pics show Greg on Miyata Elevation 10,000 Softails.

Several more pics here

Yes, he gave colour to the scene

 

[ridevintagemtb]

Yes, he gave colour to the scene

http://www.geocities.com/eldustinos/herbold.html

Funny. Not my site. Never met the man.

 

[Pickle]

The Rock Shox on the first pic, were they pre Mag21's?

 

[Elev12k]

Hi,

The fork in the 1st pic is a Rock Shox RS-1, the 1st ever suspension fork to reach production

Fork in 2nd pic is a SL Ti. I have difficulties to see what fork in 3rd pic, but probably SL Ti as well.

 

[tintin40]

Hi,

The fork in the 1st pic is a Rock Shox RS-1, the 1st ever suspension fork to reach production

/quote]

So it is. Didn't notice before. I had a pair and they were crap :evil: As a first product how a company could survive on that I'll never know. It should have killed them off.

 

[ridevintagemtb]

It should have killed them off.

Huh?

The RS-1 was groundbreaking. Turner had two UCI world champions using his fork. It may have been 'crap' compared to today's standards [duh] but there wasn't much to chose from in 1990-91.

Even HB said it was worth "every pound and more." It wasn't like another CNC crankset or brake lever, it was pretty much either RS-1, orig. manitou, or sore wrists and hands :?

 

[tintin40]

Not crap by todays forks. But just rubbish full stop. My bike spent more time in the LBS than out getting dirty. Tried them on two different frames. trouble from the word go. Thats not what cycling is about. A pair of rigid forks never any problems. No fuss