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  1. Repack Rider

    Retro MTB website

    I just added the review of the Fat Chance Kicker from the November 1985 issue of Cyclist to the site.
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    Retro MTB website

    Readers of this forum would certainly be interested in my mountain bike archive blog. I post material from the Mountain Bike Legacy Project. I add new (but actually old) stuff frequently. Here is the link.
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    42nd Annual Appetite Seminar

    The original mountain bike event, starting in 1975, the Thanksgiving Day Appetite Seminar. 800 riders, no sponsor or organization. Scot Nicol and Ibis Maximus Californians never have to ride in mud. Marin Museum of Bicycling buys the beer. Nobody shows up. for 21 years, rain or...
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    "Repack" race posters and more

    I have re-created my original race posters from 1978 and 1979 for the Repack downhill. They are on heavy 11 x 17 poster stock and they look beautiful. I sign the ones I sell. I have other vintage items for sale in my EBay store. Here are the poster images. This poster advertised...
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    He's Baaaack

    For two years Joe Breeze, Otis Guy, Marc Vendetti and Julia Violich have worked on their dream, a museum of bicycling based in Marin County. It was only natural that the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame became part of the project. Formerly housed in a restaurant in Crested Butte, the Hall of Fame...
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    "Trips for Kids" benefit at Marin Museum of Bicycling

    Marilyn Price is the founder of Trips for Kids, a bicycle charity that has exploded out of Marin County into 400 chapters worldwide. TFK takes inner-city kids mountain biking, an opportunity that they would never get any other way. TFK runs the Re-Cyclery, where kids are taught mechanic skills...
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    Book is soooo close!

    We're down to weeks until Fat Tire Flyer hits the shelves. I signed pre-r4elease copies at the Interbike trade show until we ran out, about 175 copies. Because it was a, duh, trade show, I was able to collect all three of my former associates in these events to sign each one. The line snaked...
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    Amazon listed "Fat Tire Flyer" today

    Even though it's six months away from being in print. Here's the link Discount for early purchase. Thanks for your support.
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    A Chance Encounter

    Chris Chance now lives in California. Today I dragged him out on a ride, although he said he hasn't ridden on dirt in years. Joe Breeze and his son Tommy joined us, along with a couple of other friends. Chris was riding a titanium Fat Chance which he told me had been in a box for the last...
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    1979 Downhill Race Video

    This is the first video ever made concerning what would eventually be called "mountain biking." It aired on CBS in 1979. In it a hippie named Gary Fisher makes a bold prediction that the sport would go a long way. If anyone knows how to embed here, do it in comments. Otherwise, here's the...
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    "Klunkerz" named Cycling Film of the Year

    The Endurance Sports Awards were held last weekend at Sea World in San Diego, California. For the first time in the history of the awards there was an associated film festival, and Billy Savage's documentary "Klunkerz" on the early days of mountain biking was voted Cycling Film of the Year. One...
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    33rd Annual Appetite Seminar draws 1000 riders

    I managed to get in a ride, with about a thousand of my closest mountain bike friends. We have a local Thanksgiving Day traditional ride called the Appetite Seminar. This year was the 33rd annual. There is no leader, no organization, and no starting time. There is just a traditional route...
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    1983 Ritchey Annapurna

    This is my one-owner '83 Ritchey Annapurna, held by the guy who made it. The paint is a little battered, but since it's the original paint job, Ill leave it the way it is.
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