Every few years, bicycle magazines try to figure out where mountain biking came from. The is from May, 1991.
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.
Action Now 1981
Dean Bradley was the editor of BMX Plus! before taking the job at Action Now. His friend Monte Ward had one of the first Ritchey MountainBikes sold, and Dean was happy to feature it and the owner in this issue.
Scot Nicol at Home
This from the English magazine Privateer, which did an entire issue about Northern California.
Fairfax Pat
My deceased riding companion Pat Reddix used the internet handle “FairfaxPat.” When I was unable to host visiting English mountain bike journalists, for better or worse I turned them over to Pat. Here is the article they wrote from the experience.
Riding With Legends
The Marin mountain bike crew is pretty colorful even by American standards. While the English have their share of colorful characters, they don’t have a state dedicated to the concept, so when they come here they tend to get more excited about these folks than the locals do. Here is an example from the English…