Search results

On October 21, 1976, I met five friends at the top of a steep dirt road. We had clocks, and the object was to settle for all time who was the world and universe champion of fat-tire downhill. It didn't settle anything. It started something. Here is the Dirt Rag article on the recent 40th...

Mountain bike racing started in Fairfax, California with the Repack downhill races between 1976 and 1984. At first the town was a little undecided about its place in bicycle history, but then over the next few decades thousands of mountain bikers came to town and spent millions of dollars...

This is the first video ever shot of the off-road cycling sport, not yet called "mountain biking." It aired on a US network in 1979. A hippie named Gary Fisher makes a claim in the video that the sport will go a long way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVWP6VaLtvw

A friend from way back in the day posted these videos on YouTube of the 1980 Crested Butte to Aspen Clunker tour. This was at the dawn of mountain biking, and there may have been a hundred people who considered themselves mountain bikers. Most had built their own equipment, because there was...

"Klunkerz," the documentary tracing the inception of the sport of mountain biking, was named the "Cycling Film of the Year" at the Endurance Sports Awards in San Diego, California last week. Here is one fan's report on the event. Director Billy Savage accepted the award while Gary Fisher...