1992 World Mountain Bike Downhill Championships

[jonnyweston]

actually that looks like a verlicchi or an iron horse full suspension that cullinan was riding.

[blindingsun]

@jonnyweston Verlicci and iron horse were the same company at that point iirc.. 1.2 inches of travel if i remember.

[ivan3618]

xaaaaaaaaaaaaxaaxxaxaxaxaxaaxa­x

[trkka993]

why do they need a bottle on the bike lol

[LuckSkyStar]

omg my balls hurts now....

[vivoslibertos]

Balls over technologies.

[lerlo]

Was that a GT RTS?!?!

[MFper4mance]

Today is a XC bike, in that time were DH bikes... I bet they would be faster than Absalon :D



[galaxymariosuper]

those guys had blue balls

[Enigmapilot]

Love the commentary.

"Cullinan has approached the sport a little different.... He doesn't believe in armor."

[sambanks123]

wow proof its the rider not the bike i wouldnt attempt this on my ht

[Alexlikesbikes]

Even when the bikes were glorified coat hangers and everyone looked like an arts & crafts project DH was badass. Cully is the man.

[kotze5]

riding reckless on the edge...just true! respekt! 

[kotze5]

honetly, wtth they carrie a bottle with them downhill? Thats stupid...

[WhiteRavenStar]

Cullinan doesn't even wear gloves....he is the man!

[WhiteRavenStar]

Cullinan doesn't even wear gloves.....man!

[shanereneaux]

Hardtail. Crazy. The commentators are hilarious...

[ebodyboarder]

i got lessons from dave cullinan 8 time champion downhiller today

[LucasSchaaf]

omg, amazing... those forks got like 20mm travel :O I would've been paralyzed by now, with such a fork..

[drownthedays]

you have to recognize that the tracks weren't as hard as today. but they were fast

[dot13badj]

It's funny to see how much the DH has changed from clunckers till today...

I miss those iron-balls men (and women off course)

[lmankj]

41/2 minute downhill on hard tails, now we're talking! Old school was cool.

[73ada]

crap init SHUT IT CHAV

[dannista98]

shit man, forgot how funny we looked back then! rock on daves chain device!

[gweflj]

Amazing that people went to watch this back then. It's crap init.

[Gladiatore3287]

If  they had a specialized demo they will be better than Sam Hill

[33monkey33]

All these guys with 63mm of suspension and hardtails. Nice!

[putridpanchos]

Increible, que primitivo!!

[RR1Joel]

Hear them V's screaching! AWESOME

[brianhunttv]

nope those are good old cantilever brakes

[RR1Joel]

Oh yes. Even Awesomer!

[fruble1]

Just shows that modern bike racing is all about holding on and letting the sus and discs do the work and much less about technical riding skill

50mm front only was the norm

[joshman128]

shit aye downhill has come so far

[mickeywantstostab]

BARENDS!!!!!!!!

[nav2491i]

how do the accurately measure the start time and the ending time?

[brianhunttv]

pretty close to the same way they do today

[yacuzah]

cool track :D bikes...

[freemusicblogg]

There were front sys's? Noooo waayy! Lol! :-) Hahaa

[friendofKiwi]

1992. they wasnt having fullsus bikes like now.

[kinobester]

But compare those tracks with the tracks of todays world cup races... I´ve seen harder tracks in ox and mx...

This track is completely flat.. don't need no suspension and could even ride it brakeless

[love0is0not0hate]

No armour, no hydraulic disc breaks, no full suspension bikes....

These guys had balls! And do it all sitting on there freaken seats! These guys are saints!

[lluiigii1]

god old days

[apazain]

real riders ,tomac was magic and still is there bike handling was second to none , ned overend could stomp most even in a down hill today with smooth flowing riding ,

[DHTCF]

Great to think that some people used to race both XC and DH.

UCI, how about a combined, like they have in skiing?

[wheelyking9005]

BRILLIANT!! Cully was the best, can anyone tell me what happened to him?

[balfarider666]

that was crazy. full rigid dh. those guys had balls and were pealing

[chrisdeitzel]

also back then, most people rode with their seats real high. USed to squeeze them between your thighs and lean back a little bit. Really gave you amazing control. It's kind of how you had to ride downhill so that the rear of the bike would have more weight on it so it wouldn't just bounce around everywhere.

[chrisdeitzel]

This is when I got into MTB. I stil ride a Fat Chance Yo Eddy. I remember when the first Rock Shox came out and how amazing that was that we had shocks for bikes!!!! I never did get into the full suspension thing. Give me an old steel frame any day over these new bikes.

[CharlezBrincat]

what would be cool is..

if this track is still the same run some new rigs on it and see the time difference...

would be sweet !!!

[losidan]

back in the day or what..dh was just a side show then...nothing like today..

nice to see the first guy running a tioga disk drive. Totally useless but looked and sounded mega

[sexymountainbiker]

I do actually honestly believe that I could win that. Including riding one of those old beasts.

[clanjarheadstt05]

haha, imagine sending peaty or gracia down there with them on modern day bikes, lol, they wouldnt know what had hit them lol

[ravestar01]

I raced the Cross Country event that year. I placed 50th out of 350. It was brutal and raining. Amazing. I miss the olden days.  No dh bikes then. CC bikes down the hill haha

[chrisb75]

They didnt show how he jumped the entire bridge on that course that year...he jumped out of camera view that year while winning it all. Cully was amazing. That was the beginning of my love affair with the sport.

[chiave04]

The winner's bike was built by Verlicchi, the same factory of Ducati's frame!

The dream Bike in 1992!

Only MOUNTAIN CYCLE and Yety were better...

[dillonchamberlain]

great stuff, it has evolved a ton since

[aussiedean62]

What, nothing more than riding a motorbike without an engine?? What sort of comment is that dickhead!! Progression it is called, like to see them do a 15 foot drop at speed on those old bikes. Much respect them, but not you an your comment knob!

[philbitu]

Progression??? 15 foot drops???

The name of the sport is DOWNHILL, not "high jump drops" or anything like that.

Anyway, if you´re stupid enough to pay the price to ride a "motorless motorbike" when a real dirt motorbike is a lot cheaper, go for it! It´s your money and you should spend it the way you want.

[philbitu]

That was real downhill, on real mountain bikes.

Downhill today is nothing more than riding off-road motorcycles without an engine.

Remember when Gary Fisher put touring triple cranksets on the first klunkers in the end of the 70´s, with one purpose: pedal up the hills, because bikes are made to be ridden, not pushed.

[P5L1394]

yeah the bikes weren't entirely suited for downhill, but imagine the skill required to ride them. there's one guy riding a fully rigid bike who died around 1992 n he was like one of the best. altho i must say it a bit silly to ride with the saddle riiight up lol

[mrhyde6]

ahh... 2 inches of travel bikes and skin tight lycra, the definition of downhill =)

[tmaxxarethebest]

omg those bikes r shit, but betta not dis em to much cos that year i were born :P

[brianhunttv]

those bikes were the top shit back then,

big bucks for one of those Yeti's with an inch of rear wheel travel.

[tmaxxarethebest]

an inch, hehe, wonder wot they would make of my orange patriot :P, 7 inch of front and 6 on back hehe

[CrzyScottsman]

its amazing how much our sport has progressed in this past decade and a half. these guys are crazy to be doing these things on xc bikes.

[thebirdman666]

them was the days when men were men..and neon colours were hip!

[skimadforlife]

those bikes shud be on n xc track

[MUnibiker]

hahah - year i was born

[Guusz]

me 2

[yuyolove]

What beautiful ride !

Dave Cullinan is great!

[Uzurpat0r]

maybe he has iron balls

[diisopropylamine]

i keep wanting to tell the guy to lower his seat 5 inches

[rutkiller]

wow....cool vid. These guys were bombing downhill with maybe 60 mm of front suspension only. Crappy brakes and little body armor. Old Schoolio.

[krazyjey]

History

[zeteccomp]

a good times, eso fue lo mejor del mtb el inicio de todo decenso de mtb puro nada de suspensiones super largas puro brazo, jejej k buen video....

[robnbob]

cool bikes they have changed so much.

[KonstantinKuehn]

DUDE OLD SCHOOL!!! LOVE IT!!! THATS LIKE ONE YEAR BEFORE I WAS BORN!! HELL YEAH REPRESENT!!!! 1991!!! hell yeah

[chrisb75]

The thing that sucks about this clip as just as it aired on ESPN...they didn't show Dave Cullinan FLYING over the bridge on that course...he threw a monster table top over that bridge for the win.

[brianhuntblog]

even cooler was that the chair lift was super close the the bridge so Cully had to time it so when he gabbed over the bridge he did run into the chair lift.

Aparently he pulled a huge table when he did it was well. Dude had style out his ass.

[chrisb75]

Yeah, he and toby henderson were of the same philosophy...do it big or don't do it...I IDOLIZED that guy when he was racing. I met him once at interbike...kind of a dick but fuck it. Leigh Donovan was there that year too and she was wearing a short skirt... :)

[antogoof]

is it too easy fod downhillers now? the bikes were poo back then they are like mxers now

[ileppane]

Thanks for sharing the video. Dave Cullinan's riding style is really ahead of its time, so BMX-ish with skilled cornering.

[gripthat]

waaa... john tomac .. cool :D

kuksul08.. sure you saw v-brakes.. i think the first diskbrake cames 3 years later.. formula had the first diskbrake type for MTBs

[ltrumpor]

v-brakes weren't even out as prototypes until 1995. . . regular cantilever brakes with ceramic coated rims were hi-tech in '92. Jimmy Deaton's bike had about 2" of travel and i believe tomac still had his hardtail.

[kuksul08]

Awesome video! Its amazing to see how much times have changed. Do I see rim brakes?