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A Toast To Old Friends


Dr. Nick Riviera

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Time for pwnage.

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My 2000 T-Bird, when I'd just bought a new seat for it (Which obviously makes it before I cut the seat-tube off...)

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Gap I did on the T-Bird, measured at 7ft if I remember rightly.

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My old T-Pro '02.

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My friend Jonny's bike.

I'll add more in a sec...

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Random one of me from 5 years ago in the same folder?

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T-Bone proto with proto Tensiles, bars, stem and forks...

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After I snapped the proto forks...

Riding a comp after I'd killed the T-Bone, I think...

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And being pap'd by Chris R :P

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And my first ever riding photo :)

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And this is after I bought my first ever drilled rim, and the pallet stack I half-pedalled to backwheel. 48", back in the day...

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Old friends eh? Well I can't any photos of my 19" Kona Lava Dome in full trials spec, so I'll start with my first proper trials bike

Turned this

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Into this

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Then I started sticking me oar in like this...

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Having the occasional fling...

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Built this

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Did stupid stuff like this

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Then I went long and low...

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And finally, to prove I've actually wobbled around on a bike in my time

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(With custom Section7 carbon fibre Whitehurst booster)

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Lol, nah that doesn't count as old school!! What was that? 2002/03? Didn't have it long either...

was that a zero ?

oh and the other picture of a zero doesn't look like a real zero ? its toooooo big ?

sadly I cant find pictures of my old bikes - I may fire up the old pc for a look later ....

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oh and the other picture of a zero doesn't look like a real zero ? its toooooo big ?

It was definately a real Zero. I got it from Orange as I helped with design issues they were having as well as writing some advertising copy for them. I loved the frame, I just wished they'd kept doing them and evolving the geometry with the changing times.

Seems almost odd now having proper looking MTB frames on trials bikes.

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2002 Saracen MAD with lowest BB known to man. Not my first trials bike though.

They were:

2001 - Dawes 21" (yes 21"!) MTB

2002 - Azonic DS1

2002 - Orange Zero in white

2003 - Echo ES3 (best bike I've ever had!)

Really wish I had pictures of them....

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Started of with the orange machine and cause it was my first bike i got absolutely ripped of for it haha. £330 i think lol

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Then my echo team 02,03,04 very big echo team stickers :rolleyes: lovely to ride though!

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Nick

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was that a zero ?

oh and the other picture of a zero doesn't look like a real zero ? its toooooo big ?

Yeah they originally came out in two sizes for some inexplicable reason - 11" and 14" I think. Something like that anyway. I guess that's the 14" version.

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