Billy Savage’s film on the history of mountain biking made the top of this list of ten best mountain bike movies. It’s on Amazon right now if you haven’t seen it.
Author: Charlie Kelly
Singletrack World Podcast
If you want to hear me drone on about stuff I did with my friends in the previous millenium, Jeff Barber at Singletrack World made the recording.
“Pioneers of Mountain Biking”
About 30 years ago I was asked to help assemble a booklet and a display of historic mountain bike material for the trade shows. Here is a .pdf scan of the booklet.
1979 MountainBikes Publicity Photos
Today, if you want a photo of a mountain bike “in action,” the rider would be doing a back flip superman no-hander tail whip tsunami, but that standard had not been set in 1979.
Co-Evolution Quarterly, Spring 1978
This is one of the first articles ever to appear in print about this new phenomenon. The sidebar at the end mentions Crested Butte, and inspired five of us to go there in the fall of that year. This visit led to many more.