“Back in 1997 my mum’s dog Toby Wentworth sent some words down to London on a floppy disk, destined to be printed in the first ever issue of mbr. Everything was very different then. Suspension and disc brakes were still rare away from DH racing, everything handled like crap, and magazines were the only media that mattered. To be honest they were the only media at all, apart from the occasional VHS tape, shot by some flashy Americans or uptight Europeans.
Perhaps the writing was already on the (one of the first mtb websites) asked if they could put their URL under the title of my magazine. To be honest I had no idea what a URL was, but they promised it wouldn’t hurt, and it turned out to be a really good move. Within a few months magazine was no more, but Bikemagic had already grown rapidly enough that I started working for them instead.
