1985 Mountain Biking on Seymour

Nice find. I'll bet the camera was the size and weight of two cinder blocks end to end too. '86 was the first year that I rode Severed.

I bet having the rack on the back made things real interesting.

Pull up hard!

I bet having the rack on the back made things real interesting.

I don't know about over here but when I started mountain biking around the same time there was a brief trend of having racks on (huge….) bikes so you could lean really far back without giving your scrote friction burns. You'd just sit on the rack!

Pre Fiander ladder bridges?!?!?

IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

I think I heard Wheeldrop.

too bad the videographer didn't narrate trail and rider names

They sure dab a lot. Rookies!
;)

A rear rack was mandatory it seems. Blackburn mountain rack was what you wanted with a red Blackburn bungee. No packs in those days so you carried jackets and other stuff on the rack. Plus those racks and bungees were strong enough to hold a 12 on that rack for the post ride party. Even a 24 on occasion but that was a bit risky.

Yup, had a rack on mine. I think back to that old khs frame and fork… Seems so skinny and weak looking! But all I ever broke was the handlebar on what might now be called Lower Wardens. Somehow I did not die, and sliced the two halves of the bar together with a stick for he ride down the road.

@Old Fart….This video was sent to me..from Jim Sullivan….This video gives a little taste of what it was like growing up mountain biking in north van before it became mainstream. I bet more than 5 people mountain bike at Windsor High School these days….

1986's great invention: the bicycle helmet

very cool riding.

This video was sent to me..from Jim Sullivan…

Is that Jim Sullivan who taught at Windsor?

Wow…that brings back memories!

Yes…the bike rack was essential…we thought it beefed up the frame.

I remember getting a helmet ….only because you had to have one to race…so I would ride to the race with my helmet strapped to my backpack.

I started riding on the Shore back in '82, but I don't recognize those guys (though, for a second I thought the blonde guy was James Leidel…or some of the guys from team BLT).
The narrator mentioned Jimbo, Richie, [HTML_REMOVED] ?.

I recognize the beginning as the trail to the west of the Seymour ski runs…it's where they snowshoe in the winter nowadays.

Was Jim Sullivan the same Jim from Washington who raced for Allsop after having open heart surgery?