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I started MTBing in about 1987 and have been an MBUK reader since issue one (I managed to lose that in a house move). My first MTB was a God-knows-what, which I wrecked, so I saved up and bought a splatter-paint Kona Cinder Cone. I grew up in Pickering, close to Dalby Forest, but as I joined the RAF in ’88, most of my MTBing was done in the area around RAF Wittering, and not in the great woods around my hometown.

I devoured the UK MTB mags, reading them from cover to cover. Like for many of my generation, Mint Sauce and are synonymous with mountain biking! I have some

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