David Kastler, Xavier Redois and Eric Minozzi

French BMX Championships, 1986

(pic is from Bicross Magazine, Dec. 1986)

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Denton (Manchester area) around 1967/68, Barry Davies and Eric Stone before the famous 45 steps! (source)

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Stuart Durrant, Romford Skatepark (UK) circa '88-'89.

Cyclo-cross in the Netherlands, 1930s

1957 cyclo-cross World Championships, Edelaare (Belgium) 1 - André Dufraisse (FRA) 2 - Firmin Van Kerrebroek (BEL) 3 - Georges Meunier (FRA) The Horton Collection recently uploaded a serie of cyclo-cross pictures check them on their Facebook page or their website!

I've been following Geoff Waugh's Exposure for a while, not only because he's into cyclo-cross or other similar hobbies than the ones shared here, but I love the way he writes, and as they say, roads are pages for cyclists to write their stories!

 Ride on the Wide Side by Geoff Waugh on on Exposure

Graves Park CX, Sheffield circa 1989. There was a grass mound and just couldn’t resist as I was just in the transition from bmx to "adult" bikes! Frame was a Reynolds 653 and they were tough as old boots, I was always jumping them, the Vitus and Alan frames always snapped at this altitude...

Chris Potts in Paris, 1988

Jo (Georges) Routens, winning "Randonneur" examining the bike he built and assembled by himself.

Jean-Paul Routens, George's son, has a nice Facebook page where he shares memorabilias about The Hugonnier Routens / Jo Routens / JPR / Routens decades, from post-WWII touring bikes to 90s mtb! More here

The dudes were outnumbered on the 1991 Specialized Team! We had a lot of fun, racing primitive bikes (state of the art) and traveling the world. With Joanie Thompson (Soigner), Sara Ballantyne, Daryl Price, Elladee Brown, me, Lisa Muhich and Team manager Gabe Foo The second photo is the team touring Rome at the end of the season, after the World Championships in il Ciocco Italy.

We came across this old photo of John Tickle calling at our house in Hornsey, north London, to enquire whether my older brother John Stevens was available to act as his mechanic for a trip to a race circuit in Spain. My brother was at work at the time but our Dad used this as an opportunity to practise his newfound retirement hobby of photography. John Tickle’s business career in later years is reasonably well documented but I thought it might be useful to fill in a little of the earlier years. I asked my brother for memories of the Tickle connection and this is how he recollects the events of 60 years ago. John Tickle was born 1936 and the 1939 register shows the family in Sutton Road, Muswell Hill N10. He attended Tollington Grammar School and was in the school swimming set, as was my brother. John Tickle was so good that he was selected for the British swimming team at the 1952 Olympics but unfortunately a bout of influenza put paid to that. My brother didn’t get to know Tickle then, because they were in different year groups and of course a lower year wouldn’t presume to talk to a higher year and an upper year wouldn’t deign to converse with a lower year. It was only after schooldays were over that a mutual friend introduced them, because John Tickle needed a mechanic for his Manx Norton and brother John was an engineering apprentice with the Napier company that made the Deltic engines that the diesel railway locos got their name from. Brother John helped Tickle out at various English circuits at weekends, then used a summer holiday to accompany Tickle to some continental circuits, Mouscron, Mettet and Zandvoort. Up till then, John Tickle had raced a solo bike but striking up a friendship with a Dutch sidecar racer converted him to chair racing, with his wife Cathy as passenger. In those days it was still mostly a matter of bolting a sidecar chassis onto a solo bike. The sleek purpose-built integral racing outfits were yet to appear on the scene. Thereafter, John Stevens’s mechanicking tailed off, as he now had a fulltime job. John & Cathy Tickle became well known round the circuits, home and abroad, as a privateer. He developed a business supplying Manx Norton spare parts, initially from premises at 163 Potters Bar High Street and subsequently expanding to a factory in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.

Working downtown SF in the 1980s and 1990s, it was almost impossible to avoid encountering these energetic and often reckless messengers on a daily basis. Their presence and fearless approach to navigating the city's busy streets and sidewalks often bordered on the absurd. But for many of these messengers, the job wasn't just a means of making a living - it was a lifestyle. Bike messenger culture was a subculture all its own, complete with its own jargon, fashion, and sense of camaraderie. Many of the messengers were young, alternative-minded individuals who were drawn to the freedom and excitement of the job. In San Francisco, in particular, bike messenger culture was especially prevalent. The city's hilly terrain and dense urban environment presented a unique set of challenges for messengers, and many took pride in their ability to navigate the city's maze of streets and alleys with speed and agility.

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An 1987 article from Winning about Scot Nicol's Ibis here

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Danish CX championships, 1974 (source)

Debbie Evans is a motorcycle racer and stunt rider from California, and in 1978, aged 1978 she competed in the legendary Scottish Six Days of Trials. She ranked fourth in the 175cc class, among male riders. More of her story here at The Selvedge Yard.