With this years event on Winnats Pass less than two weeks away I thought I’d write a retrospective of my relationship with the event as it’s been thirty years since I rode my first back in 1991. I’d started racing hill climbs in the Autumn of 1989 and by 1991 my results were good enough for me to dare enter what I saw as the biggest race on the domestic calendar. Hill climbing was my thing and I wanted to be on the big stage to see how I stacked up against all the real hitter