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I've followed JMC's page for many a year that his family keep active.
This came up today - and excuse my possible ignorance, I don't know who the woman is - or the reference, but curious to the reference.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/85252658@N05/wc034280AD
She might be Sophie Brookes, rode with JMC on team MBUK
She might be Sophie Brookes, rode with JMC on team MBUK
Yes, think you are correct - some googleness suggested the same.
Still want to know what it's got to do with Chipps though - albeit MCTD may have come up with the simple answer
@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR - it's because I took the photo. (And after Jase died, I sent Jim all the slides I had of Jason, so I have none left myself, so I guess it was just to give me some credit or show that he still had it).
The photo is Greg Lemond, JMC and his girlfriend at the time, Sophie Brookes. I took it in Vail in 1994 after Jason (and Sophie too, I think) had raced the World Champs DH. That was probably at the Four Cross or an after-party, where Greg got into trouble with his wife for hanging out in a nightclub with the Brit downhillers... 🙂
Cheers for the explanation @chipps.
Yeah knew it was Greg with him, which is about all I knew.
Great little back story though. Nice one 😊
JMC (and dirt on VHS) is the reason that as soon as I could afford to I bought a red Specialized. Even then couldn't stretch to stumpjumper
JMC (and dirt on VHS) is the reason that as soon as I could afford to I bought a red Specialized. Even then couldn't stretch to stumpjumper
JMC (and dirt on VHS) is the reason that as soon as I could afford to I bought a red Specialized. Even then couldn't stretch to stumpjumper
I almost did, but I bought a Kona instead - blame Peaty
The photo is Greg Lemond, JMC and his girlfriend at the time, Sophie Brookes. I took it in Vail in 1994 after Jason (and Sophie too, I think) had raced the World Champs DH. That was probably at the Four Cross or an after-party, where Greg got into trouble with his wife for hanging out in a nightclub with the Brit downhillers...
Crikey! I was at Vail in ‘94, and hung out a bit with the MBUK crowd and the GB team, and I well remember certain members were not on their best behaviour, naming no names! I went on an MBUK organised trip, with Justin Loretz, who I knew pretty well because he’d worked in John’s Bikes in Walcot Street, Bath, sadly no longer in existence.
I met and had a chat with JMC at the Specialized stand in the pits - a nicer bloke you couldn’t hope to meet, it’s heart-warming that his memory is being kept alive.
JMC (and dirt on VHS) is the reason that as soon as I could afford to I bought a red Specialized. Even then couldn't stretch to stumpjumper
My first mountain bike was a red Stumpjumper, an ‘88 model with the ‘U’-brake under the chainstays - not one of the more scintillating inventions, it must be said… *rollseyes*