I was already riding for 6 or 7 years by this point. I still ride to this day, and never stopped. I love looking back at the tech that we used back then and how advanced it was for the time.
Oh, wie sehr ich diese Tage vermisse! Missy, ich liewe dir... Immer noch! Da hat sie mir meine Mütze signiert und nen Kuss auf die Stirn gedrückt... 😅😍
For me these were real MTB-Heroes. Love to watch this bikes and the whole action. Today i have both, two old bikes and two new one. But for me today it is more boring. It`s more like motoX without moto than MTB. Thank you for this awesome video !!!
I actually watched CrossCountry on Eurosport until early 00. My fav was Missy on Cannondale and Miguel Martinez on Sunn a bit later on if I remember it correctly. Now bikes are pretty much rolling Dirtbike chassis without an Engine, why would anybody want that, a bicycle should be a bicycle like in the 90s.
LOL what a peddlefest. I started racing the very next year after I got a chance to ride at Plattekill. I rode that place on a Klein Attitude my first time there and immediately got a downhill bike and sold that frame for $400. LOL didn't care, never riding that shit geomtry again. hahahhha A downhiller was born. I rode a modified Cannondale super Vee that we shoved a double stroke length shock to create 8 inches of travel and added a 6 inch travel triple tree upside down Risse fork and I won two races in 97 Then I met Frank Wadleton and got my Motorhead. I was launching 20 ft drops by 2001
@@kunzworld2309 Some bikes were running disc brakes at the time. For example, @4:55 you can see Missy Giove's Cannondale had disc brakes front and rear, @5:20 Regina Stiefl's bike has a disc on the front, @11:10 Tomas Misser's bike has a disc on the rear, and @16:15 Francois Gachet's Sunn has discs front and rear.
@@jonpetter8921 Reliability was the main benefit; hydraulic, no constant fettering with cantilever pad alignment, no cable stretch, and pads lasted longer than one day of racing in the mud. Speaking of mud, we would use brake booster arches with cantis that just trapped mud at the tyre. I had a sachs disc on a trek y11 in 96', power a bit more than V brakes and pretty similar to magura hydraulic rim brakes which I also used. Those maguras were pretty awesome really. Sachs were a single piston caliper from memory (so the one piston/pad basically pushed the disc onto the other pad), with thick rotors meaning lots of heat and you might say already half the power if comparing to modern discs. Cantilevers were just a pain in the proverbial and V brakes not much better.
how much skill was involved with this to be honest? looks to me you just had to pedal and brake in the right places and you would get a great time, not that you needed years of practice, thinking the hype around these guys and girls back in the day was just to sell products,. anyone can ride fast down a hill. Look at missy when she is riding, she was a pro but to me it doesnt look like she is picking the right lines going down, feels like it could be anyone riding that bike TBH.
Oh you can believe me, that WAS FAST back in the days. You cannot compare that with todays bikes and the continous evolved geometries and suspension systems!
@@moritzhummel9747 are you answering me or the other guy, I still stand by my post. I think this was just overhyped rubbish by MBA to sell more mags and "cool" parts by hyping up "racers" like they where some kind of unicorns. Some of the "pros" in the video looks like a bunch of amateurs/nobodys, cant believe we were so easely fooled back then.
@@moritzhummel9747 Give me what you are basing your opinions on. I am basing mine on watching two separate vintage DH competition videos and both times noticing what looks like an amateur "weekend warior" trying to ride down a slope, missing turns and just looking like a regular run of the mill MTB cyclist from back in the day. I did not recognice her first (both times). I was like, wtf, is that missy?! could not believe it, like she was SO hyped to the max in the mags back in the day, I see nothing in there that she is a step above an amateur. Makes me wonder how she got started at all, was she signed on because of her merits/potential racing or because she supplied Team Yeti with weed - And dont get me started on all US mags (especially MBA) that hyped this "racer" to the limits like she was some kind of unique US super racer that stood above the rest. I can understand they "had" to do it so that the sponsors would purchase ad space in their mags.
Missy Giove, what a blast from the past!
I was already riding for 6 or 7 years by this point. I still ride to this day, and never stopped.
I love looking back at the tech that we used back then and how advanced it was for the time.
giove was pimped out with with the inverted dual crown fork
@@RomanSloppylov and one of the only riders on disc brakes
Love seeing that old bike tech. I'm a fan of vintage mountain bikes.
Me too. I love the golden era ❤
I remember seeing this on Eurosport and recording it on VCR and watching it again many times back in the day!
Oh, wie sehr ich diese Tage vermisse!
Missy, ich liewe dir... Immer noch!
Da hat sie mir meine Mütze signiert und nen Kuss auf die Stirn gedrückt... 😅😍
I was riding a trek y 11 with judy dh's the following year. I thought that bike was the shizzle in those days 😂
With subtitles, this is clearly better to learn German that any video I saw on youtube. And i can watch old bike race at the time! Thanks!
Those were such exciting times.
Nico and Anne Caroline dominated the World Cup DH circuit for a very long time. They rode and understood mountain bikes better than anyone.
Vielen Dank !!!
Ich fahre mein '93er Trek 970 singletrack mit Mag 21 von damals, mit dem ich regelmäßig zum Zuschauen kam, bis heute 🙂
For me these were real MTB-Heroes. Love to watch this bikes and the whole action. Today i have both, two old bikes and two new one. But for me today it is more boring. It`s more like motoX without moto than MTB. Thank you for this awesome video !!!
Thank you
Modern XC races are harder as are mountain bike parks. The bars are so narrow, the next 6-7 years had some crazy cool DH tech as the sport progressed.
Kross Kontri
Ja genau 😂😂😂
Here we are. Say hello to my little friends
1:19 negative angle in stem!!!! :)
John tomac. The King...
How mountainbiking has changed.
Geil
I actually watched CrossCountry on Eurosport until early 00. My fav was Missy on Cannondale and Miguel Martinez on Sunn a bit later on if I remember it correctly. Now bikes are pretty much rolling Dirtbike chassis without an Engine, why would anybody want that, a bicycle should be a bicycle like in the 90s.
if we still rode 90s MTBs we’d still have to be riding the stuff these folks are riding down :P
LOL what a peddlefest. I started racing the very next year after I got a chance to ride at Plattekill. I rode that place on a Klein Attitude my first time there and immediately got a downhill bike and sold that frame for $400. LOL didn't care, never riding that shit geomtry again. hahahhha A downhiller was born. I rode a modified Cannondale super Vee that we shoved a double stroke length shock to create 8 inches of travel and added a 6 inch travel triple tree upside down Risse fork and I won two races in 97
Then I met Frank Wadleton and got my Motorhead. I was launching 20 ft drops by 2001
Did they use disc brake already then ?
No that was still rim brake time
@@kunzworld2309 Some bikes were running disc brakes at the time. For example, @4:55 you can see Missy Giove's Cannondale had disc brakes front and rear, @5:20 Regina Stiefl's bike has a disc on the front, @11:10 Tomas Misser's bike has a disc on the rear, and @16:15 Francois Gachet's Sunn has discs front and rear.
Sachs had a disc out by then I think, called the power disc. Pretty sure Cannondale sold their dh bike with UD forks, with sachs brakes.
@@Gazzaloddi-ml9ej How was disc vs normal brake in performance back then ? It seems for me that disc brake only became more popular the last decades ?
@@jonpetter8921 Reliability was the main benefit; hydraulic, no constant fettering with cantilever pad alignment, no cable stretch, and pads lasted longer than one day of racing in the mud. Speaking of mud, we would use brake booster arches with cantis that just trapped mud at the tyre. I had a sachs disc on a trek y11 in 96', power a bit more than V brakes and pretty similar to magura hydraulic rim brakes which I also used. Those maguras were pretty awesome really. Sachs were a single piston caliper from memory (so the one piston/pad basically pushed the disc onto the other pad), with thick rotors meaning lots of heat and you might say already half the power if comparing to modern discs. Cantilevers were just a pain in the proverbial and V brakes not much better.
45lb Cannondale!
wir sind hier nicht beim Trial, das berühren des Boden mit dem Fuß ist erlaubt...
einfach v-brakes
What you mean they dont brake or something? You know the rim os bigger than any disk brake so its a bigger lever to stop the wheel right?
how much skill was involved with this to be honest? looks to me you just had to pedal and brake in the right places and you would get a great time, not that you needed years of practice, thinking the hype around these guys and girls back in the day was just to sell products,. anyone can ride fast down a hill. Look at missy when she is riding, she was a pro but to me it doesnt look like she is picking the right lines going down, feels like it could be anyone riding that bike TBH.
Oh you can believe me, that WAS FAST back in the days. You cannot compare that with todays bikes and the continous evolved geometries and suspension systems!
Total bullshit, sorry. You got no clue...
@@moritzhummel9747 are you answering me or the other guy, I still stand by my post. I think this was just overhyped rubbish by MBA to sell more mags and "cool" parts by hyping up "racers" like they where some kind of unicorns. Some of the "pros" in the video looks like a bunch of amateurs/nobodys, cant believe we were so easely fooled back then.
@@cv643d Answering you...
@@moritzhummel9747 Give me what you are basing your opinions on. I am basing mine on watching two separate vintage DH competition videos and both times noticing what looks like an amateur "weekend warior" trying to ride down a slope, missing turns and just looking like a regular run of the mill MTB cyclist from back in the day. I did not recognice her first (both times). I was like, wtf, is that missy?! could not believe it, like she was SO hyped to the max in the mags back in the day, I see nothing in there that she is a step above an amateur. Makes me wonder how she got started at all, was she signed on because of her merits/potential racing or because she supplied Team Yeti with weed - And dont get me started on all US mags (especially MBA) that hyped this "racer" to the limits like she was some kind of unique US super racer that stood above the rest. I can understand they "had" to do it so that the sponsors would purchase ad space in their mags.