I was over at Mum’s tonight for dinner, and after a few glasses of red I decided to raid the old family photo albums to find photos of my old bikes. (LOL). It’s a shame I couldn’t find images of my old Cannondale mountain bike which I built up by hand and raced at the Nationals, but I did find these!!!
1990 Sydney to Wollongong – LOL too funny. LOOK pedals (I still have them!), LOOK spandex and profile aero bars. They didn’t have escorts down the national park then and you could go down those twisty roads as fast as you wanted. I remember not being able to make a few of the corners, hitting those little plastic reflectors in the middle of the road and crossing the line to the other side of the road into on-coming traffic, definitely dangerous. I did the gong flat out, no stopping. The frame is Italian, rebranded as a Europa, gold parts and friction gears I loved the thing!
1991 Sydney to Wollongong – I borrowed my good mate Eugene’s Shogun Praire Breaker and whacked some slicks on it, an awesome chromo mountain bike at the time.
My old GT shitbox which I used to ride to school. Check the oval chainrings and strange Scott bar.
1990 – Me on the left, my mate Eugene on the right. He was an awesome rider who later got into some serious downhill (Oxford Falls/north shore). He’s now a father, living in Taiwan and running a Giant bicycles dealership. :)