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.
One of the great collectors of mountain bike lore, history and equipment was Jeff Archer, who was sadly killed in a traffic accident a couple of years ago, and posthumously inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. Jeff had the Museum of Mountain Bike Art and Technology , otherwise known as MOMBAT, which he…
I got a call from my friend John Ker at Mountain Bike Action. He was asking what I knew about vintage mountain bikes that had two different wheel sizes. I’m willing to stand corrected if there were others, but the only bike I could remember like that was a Cannondale from the early ’80s, which…
I spent almost two hours talking to Robert Schumacher about mountain bikes and stuff. TWO HOURS, you ask? How is that possible? Well, it was all the time he had.