"Every spring the boyz get together for a pre-season workout..." This is the original MBUK Dirt video made by MR CRUD staring Jason McRoy together with Rob Warner, Dave Hemmings and Scott Dommett.
I find it hard to comprehend how this is nearly 30 years old. I wouldn’t even want to try and guess the number of times I watched this VHS as a 14 year old up and coming racer, it just inspired you to go out and ride. Those years were the best of my life, living for nothing but bikes and riding with my mates until it got dark. I remember the summer of 95, the entire 6 weeks school holiday was glorious sunshine and we spent most of that holiday riding over to Great Ayton quarry where the scene featuring Jez Avery was filmed. Those long summer evenings riding my bike are the best memories I have and will never leave me. RIP JMC
Haha same here. Spent an hour trying to find this on RU-vid so happy I have haha. Must have watched this 100+ times. Hung my bike up 20 years ago but got back into it and watched this for some old school inspiration. Gonna make my kid sit and watch this later as well. Yeah he won’t be impressed, all looks so basic by todays standards but back then……god tier.
Mad isn't it - I remember buying the VHS the week it came out with my paper round money! Saved up for a year after this to buy an Azonic Shorty stem and riser bar to be like JMC. Happy days 🙂
I got shown this in 2020 by an older colleague at work. I live in ayton so the scene in the quarry for me is really interesting, it’s still there now but quite a lot has changed the main bit being the surrounding area has become very over grown. I’d love to find out where the bits were when he’s riding down what looks to be a cliff I have ideas but not sure where would need clearing to be able to ride it again
As a 39 year old man who grew up riding mountain bikes in the south of England and reading MBUK this video will forever be a treasure to me. The riding may be tame by today's standards but back then this was what it was all about, just getting out with friends on whatever bike you had and having fun. Still is I suppose! Never grow old lads.
That Proflex!!! The body armour!lol! Yep, but we always had to get the best bits for our bikes, then there is th bolts colour matching, Q,r skewers same colour and then brake lever blades and bottle cages i went mad with purpple, I really loved STX RC and Xt back then, they were and still are very pretty kit! And then there was Cannondale Bikes, Matyn Ashton signature edition with raised bottom bracket, so he could do trials better Cannondale with volvo sponsor badge, yellow lettering on blue and white, Beautiful
I'm the same age, bikes were expensive and very weak, I'd say fragile coming from BMX back then I regularly blew stuff up, now it's more like monthly 😂
Kids in 2017: my new bike is too heavy because it's not carbon, and the brakes don't have 4 pistons per caliper, and the suspension is just a suntour so I can't do tricks on it.
The spirit of mountain biking: just fooling around on hard tails and occasionally bleeding a bit. It’s all far too performance serious now. It was never about miles or miles per hour it was only ever about smiles and smiles per hour. Still love this.
Still brings a smile to my face after all these years. The first MTB video that started it all for me. Jason's S-Works hardtail Is still the bike I want to this day. RIP JMC.
Oh wow! I'd totally forgot about this! This video in mbuk is responsible for me going to leisure lakes in bury and signing up for s 95 orange clockwork resplendent in purple with rigid forks and onza anodised purple bar ends . Happy happy days!¡! Special mention to Jason mcroy ,what a talent taken too soon
I think this film really shows the soul of mtbing... It's about having a total laugh with your mates, and having the coolest bike you could sling together. That jmc m2 s-works will always be the king of that for me!
Taken me an hour of searching, but I found it!! As a 12 year old kid already living on my bike, This video absolutely inspired me and my next 10 years on a bike. Feel like I was part of the pioneers of this kind of riding. Almost 20 years after I put my bike away I’m just getting back into it….29” wheels? Slack angles? I worked in Europes largest bike shop in my teens and it’s all changed so much. Stoked to be getting back into it….but Also super frustrating to realise the expression “it’s like riding a bike” doesn’t cover stuff like manuals, jumping, endo’s or half the stuff. At 40 years old….gonna be some pain along the way but I’m gonna get it all nailed again and more. Cheers for putting this up.
So much fun had by these guys, been mountain biking since 85, 46 now, just changed my ride from a 2020 Giant Talon, back to a 2012 Ridge back Tempest. I much prefer the 26" wheel and shorter frame and bars,although i will miss hydraulic brakes!
To me this was the only time when mbuk was magic, they were relatable in the video, not perfect they made mistakes like we all did. It was like a video diary of you and your mates and was just so much fun. I think when jmc died the magic died with him. Thankfully some of the magic was captured in this gem of a video!! 🤘🤘
Used to watch this over and over again when I was 9. Then go and jump off ramps on my road. I always wanted Scott Dommetts bike. The maroon Coyote Ultralite with silver forks. It still looks awesome today! Can't even find a picture of that bike on Google images. Must have been custom. I'd love to own that bike now!
RIP Jason, I still remember, will never forget. You were a natural born rider and would have been serious compitition all through these years, a true legend. Now, my old VHS player ended up having my copy of this (which i got free on the cover of MBUK, like many) for dinner. But i managed to quickly find another copy to totally wear out in yet another VHS player Looool. Memories!. 90's; take me back lol.
Another early MBUK fan checking in, I was working in a bike shop in Surrey when I got my copy of MBUK with the VHS attached and had the privilege to have a weekend loan of a Proflex the same as at 15.37 (though in blue/yellow) unique bike with hydraulic brakes and full suspension ..ah, happy days :-) I always have that Johnny Thunders track in mind from then. RIP Johnny Thunders and Thameside Cycles.
This is so weird to watch as a 46 year old man (In 2023). Watched so many times on VHS when I was 16+ years of age when I bought my first decent MTB with a small frame, the Univega Alpina 501. Went on from there to Muddy Fox FSR with Spin wheels, then a mail order Merlin from the magazine, A Klein, a Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Pro and finally a Santa Cruz Heckler that was stolen in Ibiza in 2007. That was the end of my cycling days as arthritis took hold, but its great to look back on these old memories of Crud Catchers and chain tensioners from my era.
Mud Cows, oh wow, those guys were pretty nutz. Your daily life sounds so much like my own back then, out most of the day riding and messing about, then back to get glued to the TV watching all those tapes. Thing was after you had binged on them for a bit you were headed back out again, at least i was lol :)
Ah, feck, MBUK (and I've still got my MBUK bottle opener on my key ring!!!!); made me build a black Orange C-16R rigid with Pace MXCD foks, ree and blue Hope hubs - snowflake lacing rear spokes on Mavic 217 rims with alternate blue and red spoke nipples and a Flite titanium saddle and XT brakes . Wish I'd kept that bike - it was frigggin awesome. Good old days in the Lake District. Shit, wish I could meet up with some of you guys from back in the day
LOL. I had this VHS video in the mid 90s. Seem so cool back then, now it just looks reckless racing around with no crash on and trashing expensive bikes. But still some great legends in this good see it
RIP Jason McCroy. Finally in the mountain bike hall of fame. You can see he was a bmxer by his Moves! This video was such an inspiration back in 1995 ! Only one full susser in the whole thing and most of yhem rigid. Even jmc riding a bog standard stumpy
Yes the lifting of the front wheel whilst powering down, Tim March style. I still copy that to this day from when I first met Tim some time in the early 80’s 😎
Used to love this vid as a kid watching it and then going out on bike. Seen Jason’s bike in this at the Malverns classic and recognised it straight away
Amazing, thanks the for upload. What memories!! 18 year old and this was constantly played as inspiration to improve and just mtb. Bikes might have got better but the thrill and adrenaline are still the same. Keep it real 🤙
This video changed my life. Smashing round north wales on a Raleigh m-trax getting my nutsack dragged through the rear brakes trying to jump off everything and anything. Fake Oakley on and baggy everything. Fuckin yeah!!!!!
Just had a wonderful burst of nostalgia watching this on my daily commute. Like so many others I used to binge on this then go out and tear up the trails. Touching 40 now and getting back in to shape to do some serious mountain biking. I wonder where the crud truck is? According to DVA it was last taxed in 1999
Many a days pass I still watch this.. all the boys I looked up to and mis jason loads . I piss myself rob coasting through the Ford ditching it .. rip mr mrcroy
They look ( from what I can see ) like the Pace RC35 I had on my Orange P7 ( nickel. Olour with orange decals ) at the time, they cost me nearly £400 which was an awful lot at the time 😁😁😁
who have we got in this video. JMC, Warner, guy from Marin who's name escapes me. dont recognise the other riders. Tiley maybe? Then some of the MBUK bunch. can anyone put a name to the faces?
It really was, I know things have moved on massively but these guys were the pioneers. I was skateboarding in 79 and BMX’ing in 82 so I’ve seen a lot. The tricks we were doing on our Burners in the early 80’s kids can’t do today. The pro riders have moved on but little Joey Bloggs in the street hasn’t. So yes, this was new and these guys were the coolest 😎👍
