Malverns Classic 1993 - some pictures for your pleasure...

[gibbleking]

yup thats the one...baking hot summer weekend.....the gf was in a foul mood all weekend (she didnt like bikes very much)....500 mile round trip too...i had great fun..

 

[Drencrom]

yup thats the one...baking hot summer weekend.....the gf was in a foul mood all weekend (she didnt like bikes very much)....500 mile round trip too...i had great fun..

Yeah, it was lovely weather all right. Especially when you're about to venture out into another mid-February evening!

I always respected the distance people travelled for the Malverns, I'm a lucky git me - what with it only being an hour away.

Did the gf not enjoy the sight of hundreds of lycra clad sweaty blokes then? There's no pleasing some people, eh?

 

[gibbleking]

she said she was bored silly after 5 minutes of getting there...it sort of went dh after that.i loved it ...i got to take some good pics of dave hemming up close at 50 mph on the dh run....oh i miss those days....i dont miss the portable loos tho...they were awful

 

[Drencrom]

oh i miss those days....i dont miss the portable loos tho...they were awful

I've been to Glastonbury too many times to be shocked by the state of portaloos. There is no happy medium in terms of weather or usage - they just ming.

 

[MiniNinjaRob]

Are you sure? I thought my brother took all these pics in 93. I'm not in any of the photos taken but the third member of our group James is pictured jumping out of the bombhole.

My brother pretty much stopped riding MTB's after that year, it had a big effect on him. I continued through university. I have to agree it did change a lot of things in mountain biking, for all at the event it signalled almost a loss of innocence. I went to the Big Bike Bash last year and that included some of the long lost "feeling" of the Malverns Fat Tyre Festival as was.

It was probably the last time I could enter a dual slalom event on a rigid bike and beat a full sus bike!!

 

[Drencrom]

Are you sure? I thought my brother took all these pics in 93. I'm not in any of the photos taken but the third member of our group James is pictured jumping out of the bombhole.!

Yeah, if it was '93 then Warner would've been in the yellow and black Saracen kit. He did the trial on an elevated stay steel Saracen, I'll dig a picture out, along with Hans Rey on a purple Zaskar (if memory serves correct). The Mag 21 SL Ti's on Hemming's Fat Chance are a giveaway for the anoraks!

 

[gibbleking]

i rode up the dh route on the first day.....i left my lungs at the bottem.....my bro got himself an ozone estay in anodised blue with gold dropouts for 600 quid while we were there..he still rides it now,

 

[Drencrom]

i rode up the dh route on the first day.....i left my lungs at the bottem.....my bro got himself an ozone estay in anodised blue with gold dropouts for 600 quid while we were there..he still rides it now,

Cool - they were very tasty frames BITD, especially the early Bigfoot ones. The Bigfoot shop in Gloucester was a good place to call in on the way to the Forest of Dean or up to the Malverns for us. I think it might be the blurring in the photo, but in one of the DH shots on the first page it looks very similar to one of the Bigfoot/Ozone's with the suspension dropouts (retro fittable bolt-on jobs), which were an interesting concept.