Ned Overend and John Tomac, mountain bike icons

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Ned Overend and John Tomac dominated professional mountain biking during its hay day of the late 80’s and 90’s in a rivalry that is permanently etched in off-road racing history. Their battles defined the sport for nearly a decade, and were made even more memorable by the diverse and dynamic technological advancements of the time. One year ago, Payson got Ned and John together for a rare one-on-one conversation, which they recorded at Tomac's 800 acre ranch in Cortez, CO. They talk about what...

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0:00.0	Gosh, the product development back then was, it was pretty fun.
0:04.2	Like testing the original stuff, you know, original disc brakes.
0:08.5	Yeah, especially the suspension for suspension stuff.
0:10.5	Right.
0:10.7	When we started, it was really rigid bikes.
0:13.1	It was, we had, yeah, fully rigid bikes, no index shifting, toe straps, no clippless
0:18.5	pedals, you know, going down Mammoth in 86, 85,
0:23.0	down the downhill at Mammoth,
0:24.8	you couldn't see.
0:26.2	Like the washboards would,
0:28.2	you had no suspension.
0:29.8	It would shake your eyeballs and you could not see.
0:32.6	Yeah.
0:33.1	It would just turn blurry.
0:34.1	And you're just like, okay, I know this course.
0:36.1	I'm not slowing down
0:39.8	it's showtime everybody showtime you've been living in a dream world neo this is the world as it exists today
0:53.7	life moves pretty fast.
0:55.9	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:58.4	You could miss it.
1:01.5	Listen, we're talking about practice.
1:04.8	Repeat on the dude's room.
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