By early 1985 mountain biking had gone mainstream enough that it shared ink with Hulk Hogan. The focus of the article is Laurence Malone (R.I.P.) who was the perennial cyclocross champion in the United States.
Category: MTB Archive Posts
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.
Winning, April 1985
This issue warms up the 1985 mountain bike season by suggesting that Jacquie Phelan had rivals. As it turned out later that year, she did not. Also, a pair of Dutch mountain bikers climbed Mont Blanc, to claim some sort of claim.
UK comes to Fairfax
Hanna Dobson: “So hard to write about a day out like that without sounding like ‘first we went to the chocolate factory, then we ate the chocolates, then we ate the secret chocolates, then we swam in a river of chocolate, and then we ate more chocolates with the inventors of chocolate. And you lot, you can go and buy Hershey’s.'”
Bicycle Action, March 1985
This issue featured the Crane Brothers trekking with their mountain bikes to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Cyclist, April 1985
This issue of Cyclist featured two articles about Charlie Cunningham, as well as my report on the 1984 National Cyclocross Championships.