Jason McRoy old skool bike

I have a JMC bike, it belonged to him at one point in early 90's when he raced for Hardisty Cycles in Newcastle, before he turned pro. I worked in the shop at the time of his death and had the bike from about 93 i think.. it has been used occasionaly over the years but has been well battered by JMC.
It has many of the original parts he had on it.

Funnily enough, on one of my first rides on another MTB way back when in Washiglton tyne and wear, he passed me on this bike which i now own. i got to know him a little bit as he came into shop and rode the odd same road race back then, he was certainly very gifted and fast for a newbie on the road and a smashing fella.

Anyway, due to downsizing (house) i need to depart with some bikes, someone mentioned this site, so is it the kind of thing that anyone would be interested in perhaps?? any thoughts would be great.. i may endeavour to get some pics if required.

so is it the kind of thing that anyone would be interested in perhaps??

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I heard that this is now going to be the new dictionary definition of understatement

Welcome and get the pics up .

This sounds very interesting - I'm sure we'd all like some more details on it and pictures as a piece of MTB history.

If this is a request for a valuation, though, then please post it in 'What's it Worth' here: http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... hlight=xyz as per the forum rules.

Or if it's for sale, then please put a firm price on it and stick it in the For Sale section. I'm sure there'd be a lot of interest.

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Good evening and welcome. What he said/\ but I for one wouldn't have the balls to put a price on it(whatever it is)

What he said/\ but I for one wouldn't have the balls to put a price on it(whatever it is)

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x2 and what Perry said was also an understatement.

Please post some pics , and welcome.

thanks for replies guys..

thanks for replies - and yes, it is genuine..

I intend to put some pics up next weekend, as i am away next week.

If I remember; it has original chainset (Middleburn), stem, bars, seatpost and 'flite' saddle, forks, deore thumbies, front wheel (old XT hub i think), possibly even frt mech.. i think i replaced the headset (it was a chris king), rr wheel (hope hub), bb and pedals many years ago. The colours are red/white, originally black/white but he had it sprayed in support of local football team i think. It has 'Hardisty' logo on with same branding as old black/white jersey (same as photo on JMC website) and is soilid. It was well worn/ridden when i got it and still is, alhough it has no major dents, but works well, i rode it on coast to coast last year and that was the only outing it has had in at least 10years. I think the frame is some old style of 'columbus' tubing but is heavy with fat heavy duty forks.. It was hand built for JMC by the frame builder who did frames specifically for the shop. I received the bike in around 94 before I left Newcastle, I thinks thats about it...

Nayfinesse will know the frame builder. Either Kevin Winter or Paul Donaghue IIRC built frames for Hardisty's. Looking forward to seeing some pics of this one.

Cheers
Si

Looking forward to seeing this too - my bro has a similar JMC story but he actually bought his dad's bike, not loo long after JMC had his accident - being an impressionable youngster at the time I've hung on to some of the bits off of that bike; DX thumbies on my Marin, Avocet saddle and '92 LX/Araya wheels on the Muddy Fox - I may still have the Smoke/Dart tyres on the garage wall at home. My bro said he was blown away by the things they had in their garage, especially his old BMX on the wall as we were both quite avid BMXers at the time and embarassingly knew little about his younger exploits.

Get some pictures up ASAP!

McRoys bike

bm10 we may know each other if you worked at Hardistys in the mid 90's .... is it you Baz?

Looking forward to seeing this.