Tom Ritchey in 1983.
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.
Stump Jumping
This 1984 article appeared in the University of California Alumnus magazine.
Victor Vincente of America
Victor Vincente has had 40 more years of adventure since this article came out in 1983, and he already had a lot of adventure behind him then.
1982 Ritchey/MountainBikes Catalog
Price list
Browning Automatic Transmission
In the mid-eighties a number of innovations appeared to address the new and expanding mountain bike market. The majority didn’t survive more than a season, as the real world intruded on the performance measured in a pristine laboratory with no mud or bike crashes. The Browning Automatic Transmission came from the same industrial family as…