Every few years, bicycle magazines try to figure out where mountain biking came from. The is from May, 1991.
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Charlie Kelly’s Mountain Bike Hubsite
Nearly 20 years ago I put together a website where I collected a lot of mountain bike nuggets. I don’t maintain it any more, but it would be a pain to move them all over here when I can just post a link to it.
Signed “Repack” Posters
In 1978 and 1979 Pete Barrett drew the posters for the Repack races. The originals were cheap photocopies, but I have cleaned up the images and printed them on heavy poster stock. I sell a collection of four posters, all signed by me, for $30 in the United States. This includes postage. Outside the United…
Co-Evolution Quarterly, Spring 1978
This is one of the first articles ever to appear in print about this new phenomenon. The sidebar at the end mentions Crested Butte, and inspired five of us to go there in the fall of that year. This visit led to many more.
Wheel Family Fun
Not too long ago, when there weren’t any mountain bikes, 50 years ago, bicycles were made to go on roads, mostly paved. They had tires, brakes and geometry suited for that type of travel. But then, riders started going “off-road” and found their bikes not well-suited for rough riding.