NORBA Nationals Race Helen Georgia 1994

[@thinkpadBentnoseTheBlind]

I'm still stuck in the 90's. 91 rocky hammer,91 GT karakoram,98 GT avalanche le ,99 Zaskar.

[@thomasandrews8033]

I've compared racing footage and these legends look like they're going so much faster than the xc pros nowadays.

[@DIASDEMUSICA]

that´s real mountain biking!!!

[@jamesfurman3739]

The good ol days

[@CyclingWorld1]

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[@oregonziggy2391]

Miss those days. Got into mountain biking in 1991. So much fun.

[@mariomoreno9954]

Old School times: no full suspension, no cells, no f...internet, no COVID..just pure MTB! I miss it so much!

[@TROll-oe9ng]

Then go do it again. Nothing that you mentioned is necessary to go out and have fun on the bike. If you don’t want to take a phone then don’t. If you don’t want full squish then ride hard tail or rigid. If you don’t want I use the internet then don’t. And who gives a shot about another flu variation. Get out and ride man!!

[@Azman.]

The great vintage old days 90s' all cross country riders! Greeting from XC rider Malaysia!

[@Howell_Haus]

We were there... good times ! Loved riding on C'Dale's first team '92-'93. Don't really miss my Delta V FS (pogo stick), but it was a great opportunity, lots of fun and a great memory...

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[@geu6270]

@@CyclingWorld1 Done. JD us too. We were on one of the tapes. Actually our wonderful angel rescue furry child Oreo was and Penny says something about the course and they had a shot of Oreo in slow motion swinging her head around to look down the course.

[@jempanuncialman9361]

And i still riding a Retro MTB

[@adoleo6212]

omg back to 90's television

[@craigmckinnon242]

It's cool watching the soul footage. Those water crossings are ridiculous though that wouldn't fly today

[@donnovicki9771]

I always have to laugh when people comment on the old bikes with zero suspension, high seat posts, and 26" wheels. Those bikes were state of the art back then and cost thousands of dollars. Without those bikes there would be no full suspension today. Most bikes back then were steel and were made in Taiwan. They were quality machines and were the best you could get.

[@jesselee4405]

I switched over kinda late to suspension. I was like, 'this will never catch on.' LOL! Uhhhh

[@CyclingWorld1]

Well said Don mate!

[@donnovicki9771]

I still have my all original 1989 Diamondback Apex. All steel, straight front fork, 26x1.95 with Farmer Johns Cousins ( not in good shape) and canti's. If you don't think the canti's could put you OTB you would be mistaken and I can personally verify that. I paid 600.00 in 89 and that was a pretty penny back then. The greatest riders of all time Ned, JT, Tinker, and Julie. We shall not see their like again.

[@stefhirsch6922]

The production versions were Taiwan made steel. The top pros would have been on custom steel. Good production steel bikes were typically butted cromo without extra machining whereas a custom builder would typically use a heat treated steel which is often 80%+ stronger allowing thinner walled tubing which is also stronger. There’s other things to do to reduce frame weight such as machining out the bottom bracket shell (which reduces a surprising amount of weight - even if it came from the factory as butted/light saves more weight than going from a 0.9/0.6/0.9mm downtube to an 0.8/0.5/0.8). Another is drilling bigger holes in the head, seat tube and bottom bracket shell where the top/down/seat tubes meet as well as chain stays. In addition most production frames are poorly aligned - even high end stuff like a colnago or pinarello let alone a trek/gt/univega. If you put a new frame on an alignment table seeing a “quality frame a half inch out (1.25cm) is unfortunately the norm. It doesn’t take much to cant a head tube to the side - especially when yo consider the heat that welding and the associated expansion. Cold setting after welding takes too much time and thus the manufacturer’s SELDOM do it after welding a frame up - just minor finish work and paint/powder coat. There are a number of other tricks to get the rest of the bike working better that you would commonly see on a pro’s bike. Facing the head tube/bottom bracket shell, hand polishing the bearing races and then replacing the caged balls with campy balls…. I’d also assume that their suspension forks were custom tuned making them work a bit better than what you’d expect for ‘94. Also there were full suspension bikes in ’94 but they weren’t quite good enough back then and the courses were much smoother than today’s courses.

[@oregonziggy2391]

so true

[@victorallanpmatias]

Saw this on tv when I was 19 the year Juarez almost became world champ

[@downallyourstreets]

5:20 - Lol 😂! waiting for that classic spesh “mechanical”. The Cannondale Team frame with ultra-light and super-stiff Headshok and Magic BB was bomb-proof. Just keep the heat on and wait for the others to blow their gaskets!

[@icantgivecredit871]

Are they riding clipped in?

[@CesarSantos-pl9vd]

My generation on the MTB ... the guys were riding a lot of rim 26 ... without disc brake had to have technique.

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[@FatTireJournal]

good post

[@indorider]

I raced the DH!

[@craiggreen4388]

Awesome race. I half expected Tinker to take it, Tomac seemed to be losing his edge at this time in his xc career. Overend looked like his front mech had issues.

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[@cup_and_cone]

Tinker was never really a great sprinter, but Tomac had lots of power with his slalom experience.

[@rice_bubbles6699]

2019??...bike's did transform

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[@7hhuman995]

Those 26ers were sketchy as fuck!

[@jiffypangestu1688]

Single chainring, 12 speed 50 tooth cassete didn't exist that day.

[@stefhirsch6922]

Charlie Cunningham did do some custom wide range freewheels in the 1980s. At least by ‘84. A lot of his bikes were 2x back then.

[@tlansing18]

What's wrong with THAT COURSE ORGANIZER. Building a bridge over water would have been nice

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