TPC Museum Series #12: Greg Herbold's 1990 Miyata Ridgerunner | The Pro's Closet
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2016
- The Pro's Closet presents, TPC Museum Series #12: Greg Herbold // This Mountain Bike Hall of Famer was already a 2-time national downhill champion by 1990, but his win in the first ever World Downhill Championship launched Greg "Hair-Ball" Herbold into the national spotlight. In this video, HB takes The Pro's Closet through the technical aspects of his race winning bike as well as the the challenges downhill racers faced in the early 90's...like hard-tails, tension disks, and pedaling uphill!
Special Thanks To:
Greg Herbold, Jon Bailey, Town of Durango, Tasshi Dennis, Mike Wilk, Nick Martin, Jarrad Lokes
Music: Giuffria - Call to the Heart, Space - Magic Fly, Alan Parsons Project - Hyper-Gamma-Spaces, Amanda Lear - Follow Me 1978, Alan Parsons Project - Mammagamma
Video: Tread / Re-Tread, Fat Tire Journal, Footage Island, Camera A - Chris Leising, Camera B - Jarrad Lokes, Edit - Chris Leising - Спорт
I'm a roadie, but this was great and Greg seems like a genuinely good dude who is still young at heart, having a good time, and happy to be alive. Zero sign of pretension.
Having raced 90s DH and XC on cantilevers, I totally agree with HB about people with disc brakes.
One of my all time favorites growing up. When I was 16, I use to work at a Hobbyshop called Sheldon's Hobbies in San Jose California. When I started working there, there was this one dude that would just walk behind the counter and start grabbing parts for his rc off-road cars and place them on the counter for purchase. Being a past bmx racer converted to racing mountain bikes, I knew who that was....it was Greg Herbold. I said, " HEY !! What are you doing bro !! Aren't you suppose to be on the trails shredding ??? " He said, " Nah brotha ! I need to get my rc cars going when I goto the races. " LOLOL !! We talked for awhile about RC cars and bikes. The super cool thing he did for me that day was that he gave a few Onza coffee mugs with his name on them, foam coasters with his pic on them, 8 boxes of Onza tires in white compound, and tons of Onza and RockShox decals. He was on his way to RockShox when they were located in Silicon Valley. What's cool about this video is that he's on a RC off-road track and his 1/8th scale electric buggy from Losi is on the corner at 4:49. It's good to see him still in the hobby. One of the coolest cats in the mountain biking industry I met when growing up.
Dude, how can your comment have NO likes? It should have a million. This video should have a million.
H-Ball -- Awesome DUDE of Moab Utah -- Personal Friend and a GREAT Guy....
Great to see all these heroes of my youth here again. I started mountainbiking in late 1991 when I was 15 years old on an GT Talera. Greg was always one of my favorite MTB race drivers. He always had the coolest parts and stuff on its bikes like Tioga Disc Drive, white Onza tires, Grafton and Ringle parts and later the legendary Rock Shox Mag 21 SL Titanium and stuff like that. Hey I even had a Greg Herbold sticker on my Flite Evo 2 saddle.
30 Years! Durango... i bought my first MTB 1989... all the good feelings come up when i see this Video! Thank u for that.
Good old days!
Classic! Thanks! Greg was an inspiring pro to me.
Those Onza tires were super gummy..Man I miss those days of MTB.
Onza downhill white tires were the best
Awesome. John Tomac next please.
I started racing mtb around 90-91. Did downhill races and Xc on cantilever brakes. I shake my head when I think about it now.
Flashback to my early years of riding. I saw Greg race at Mammoth in 92-94. I loved white Porcupines!
Funny man, I hated those tires. I have one now as a belt. Way better as a belt if you ask me :)
SO many great memories from these days!!!
Pretty cool to see guys my age remembering their fat tire exploits! I still have my 1997 Proflex 857. I was running the green Porcs for dry races. Red bike with bright green tires looked so cool.
What a legend, thank you for doing this!
That brought back great memories, shut up and ride indeed!
Epic! Thanks for posting guys :)
Legend!!!
never thought id see the onza box van again!
I remember that like it was yesterday.. great party at the worlds in Colorado. Onza was my place of employment until 94-95
@@jsgphotography i love everything Onza. Pedals. Chill pills. Porcupines. Were all built very well. Miss those times.
Dude had the coolest truck and he was always sitting inside chilling out.
Good one guys. Keep'em coming.
+FatTireJournal Thank you for allowing us to use your old footage in some of these videos. Your content is invaluable!
+FatTireJournal i saw that footage and was taken back a long time, used to love watching Fat Tire Journal
1987 my first mountain bike was a Miata ridge runner. Pretty bad bike but awful parts. Got to ride a little bit with Greg herbalt at the specialized cactus cup last big race. He was cool
Great Piece. Thanks Guys.
Fantástico, íconos que forjaron el Mtb de hoy y mi inspiración por este hermoso deporte
I ride my 1987 Miyata Valley Runner all over Durango and the surrounding area on forest and county dirt roads. I didn't know a Miyata bike and rider won the first world championship in Durango.
What a top bloke.
back to the future timemachine
Ok...I come from a motocross backround as well 70/80's....Looks like a 1980 YZ125G ( the 1980 yamaha motocross line up all had #1 on the number plates) at 8:24....from the angle its a right side drive which coincides with moto observation plus I have one....love the passion Greg has for his old steed and how he puts modern day mtb whiners in there place. The 90's truly was the golden age of mtbking and that where my mtbking roots were planted
Supercool guy, ever
beautiful bike
Damn next time I head out to Durango I am grabbing my RC gear and will try to go race Greg.
Another great video. Thanks TPC. Some great sticker at 8:58 - Drink Beer, Ride Bikes, Go Fuck yourself!
I pause the Vid when the Breaks came up... i was like damm exact those breaks i use with the cable hanger and levers, and i was saying to my self this breaks was so much trouble and shit.. and then Greg came up and say "screw u guys, modern breaks are so fucking good" i laugh so hard!!
Please Please Please Please Please get Tinker and do one of these
+Brian Russell Oh we will!!
+Brian Russell That'd be so awesome!
+Yuri Rabena He's a good guy. We recently bought his old Klein Team Storm frame... ow.ly/10q7Uy
And Hans "no way" rey please.
Great Video!!! Anybody knows name that retro electro song coming when Greg talking about his bike?
I'm about to get this triple cross, it's a beaut, I believe it was top of the line, quick cross, sport cross, then triple, I worked at a bike shop, so I can tinker on it, I like the cantilevers, all you need, just change the pads when they wear out, I thought about converting it to single front chainring, and maybe changing stem and bar, but idk if it would be considered a crime.
Philippe Perakis please!
I can’t imagine the amount of flats they had to deal with
H-ball
Do they use real cats?
Would sort of be awesome.
+Tim Young yep same thing tennis racket strings used to be made from