I know this is a few years back but did anyone use to race the nambs? What happened to the guiscliffe course as anyone ever ridden up there? Think the other one was ramsgill that used to be ok.

Charlton bank was always a good race until they closed it

Can't you tell I'm an old schooler lol

Ste will be able to help you on this one he's the grandad of the team!! lol

i raced the nambs a long time ago it was fun, i used to ride my K2 proflex with pace monsters forks, hope brakes.i use my K2 for XC now. proper old school

Haha the pace monsters! I've got some sat in my old ladies garage, nearly brand new.

I did have the pace dh bike snapped one and cracked the frame at the bottom of the other one. Ended up going to pace in the north yorkshire moors and kicking off over £3k I paid for it. I did recieve a refund on the price of the frame \o/ (when I was there the welder even told me that it was a shite design.)

My first bike was the san andreas think there was only 3 in the country when I got it. Rob Warner had one and another guy down south. Still have it to this day. It has all of about 3" of travel. I think is was one of the first full on dh rigs apart from the proflex, GT RTS. My old mans still got the san andreas, uses it to go to shop on hahahah! even has the orginal bright yellow magura hydraulic brakes and XTR.

How things have changed!

that sounds proper old school like my proflex, can you remember the road jump on the farm at pateley bridge i loved that jump my old rig bottomed out on that jump but she held in there all day, i love riding my old rig not meny people can keep up when i hit the track road down from high cliff it's got a massive chain ring on the front.

Yeah that was the one at ramsgill, wasn't it? Big open field with a fire road jump, and nine times out of ten it was a wet grass landing

Did you evey race guiscliffe? I can remember racing there on my first ever race and thinking wtf have I got myself into. On practice they had 3 st ambulance vans and they all were full. The race organiser came up to us and said It's getting bad they already have 2 more guys waiting to go to hospital haha!

I'd just been out and bought some dianese body armour the day before good job and all. Crashed on the rocks, ended up nearly knocking myself out.

You don't have any old video footage of these places do you?? Would be nice to see what downhill was like then compared to now.

John you have my old photo's with me in likera gear not a pritty sight doing the nambs

I'll see if I can get hold of some, We did do loads of footage but don't know whos got it all.

Found these few clips my m8 andy put on you tube mid 90's, pretty tame tho!

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that was a mint crash, i think some were i have a video of that full race some were i will try to find it