CHIPPS PHOTOGRAPHY JAMES VINCENT
Tere are still a few veterans from those heady early days of mountain biking in the scene today, but few can claim to have been as influential as Pace Cycles’ Adrian Carter. Pace’s early bikes in the late ’80s with their square aluminium tubes were visually different, but they were also designed as mountain bikes from the ground up – rather than many peer products whose roots could easily be seen in the lugged touring bikes of the time.