This article ran in the UK magazine Bicycle Action following my epic tour of Canada’s Northwest Territories.
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.
The World’s Foremost Authority
It was easy to be an expert on mountain biking when there were only a hundred mountain bikers in the world. I took advantage of that opportunity to be The World’s Foremost Authority for about ten minutes, until there were two hundred mountain bikers. This is the kind of thing you can show your parents…
Pedal Power: The Marin Museum of Bicycling
Fat Tire Bike Week 1992
This is the brochure from 30 years ago. Things have settled down a little since then.
Range Rider
At the same time Americans were developing mountain bikes, English riders were exploring a similar concept, except without all that downhill.