Thursday, January 19, 2012

Mountain biking roots

While mountain bikes are now ubiquitous and mainstream prior to the mid to early 80's no such sport existed. The clear precurser was the "repack" races in California otherwise known as by a term all but forgotten "klunking". The following video from the late 1970's features among other people Gary Fisher (at 3:00min) who who's mountain bikes are still popular sellers in the shop today.

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