The first NORBA National Championship in 1983 was held in driving rain.
That made for a terrible race but an entertaining article in Bicycle Sport.
This is where I post vintage materials from the Mountain Bike Legacy Project, which primarily covers the years from 1970 to 1990.
There is no order here other that what I found in the files recently. I tried to collect every printed word about mountain biking before 1990, when it became impossible to keep up. Now I am happy to share it with anyone who finds the site.
Read more about the Mountain Bike Legacy Project by clicking on The Archive tab under About Charlie.
The first NORBA National Championship in 1983 was held in driving rain.
That made for a terrible race but an entertaining article in Bicycle Sport.
In 1990 Mammoth Mountain hosted one of two “World Mountain Bike Championships” held that year, this being the NORBA version.
The organizers asked me to write a brief history of mountain bike racing for the program. Here it is.
Maynard Hershon interviews Tom Ritchey.
In 1984, Senior Editor Frank Berto from Bicycling magazine came out to Repack and gave it a shot. Here are his impressions.
In 1980 John Finley Scott helped Gary Fisher and me when we composed our first catalog on his $13,000 Hewlett-Packard “word processor.”
It was an amazing device. Right away I wanted one. A year later, I had one, but it was an Apple II+ computer.