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 Bob Weir Mountain Bike Interview (with Gary Fisher)
I wrote this in 1992. Every copy of this issue of Dirt Rag sold out.
1979 Pearl Pass Clunker Tour
This is my article from Bicycling Magazine about the 1979 Crested Butte to Aspen tour.
The Roots of Dirt: How Mountain Bikes Went From Clunkers to Global Phenomenon
In the early 1970s, cyclists in and around Marin County started assembling “clunkers” using salvaged paper-boy bikes from the 1930s and ’40s and bombing down Tam’s paths and fire roads.
Cranked Magazine interview with Charlie Kelly and Joe Breeze
In 2017 Joe Breeze and I gave lectures in the UK. At one of our stops in Swanage we sat for an interview with Cranked Magazine.