scanned photos of "bike 95" and some of my old bik

[Elev12k]

Many nice bikes, but in particular the Yates catches my attention. Think I recall that paint also from articles in mags. Is it a team paint or so?

 

[jonnyboy666]

@ elev12k haven't got a clue about the paint, i remember that when i was wandering around the show i was snapping pics of anything i liked the look of!!!

@magas the giant mcr's were sort of inspired by lotus, sort of. mike burrows designed the basic bike and built it then lotus bought the design off him and modified it for boardman, then mike burrows started working for giant and came up with the tcr and mcr designs, basically compact road designs. the mcr is similar but deliberately a different shape to the lotus. it was a strange bike to ride though, sort of like a full suss in that if you were out of the saddle climbing the back end moved!! when i got it it was painted in the harrods team colours of green with gold lettering it was never used till i built it, i used it for a while as a road bike then rebuilt it as a tt bike, sat down on the tip of the saddle it was ok. in all honesty i only got it for fun as a talking point, it cost me £300 brand new with the harrods paint. i repainted it though as the green colour was awful.

 

[jonnyboy666]

just done a couple more, me on an lts 2000 with spins and in the air! i'm sure spins and jumping didn't go together but hey poo happens!!

 

[tintin40]

thats a well taken picture

 

[guybe]

Nice collection of pics, thanks for sharing, is that same Kona you first bought years ago, then sold it and got it back last year?

 

[jonnyboy666]

yep, same kona. that pic was taken in 95 i think, before i sold the whole bike i swapped the fork for the p2 i had, then sold the xtr groupset and the mag20's for a dx kit and some money. the only change that kev made during the time he owned it was xtr rear mech and xtr v brakes.

appart from the fork it is now full xtr m900 again