All of the California guys acknowledge that what they were doing wasn't anything new. The activity just reached a critical mass in Marin and the modern sport of mountain biking has a direct lineage to what they were doing in the 1970's. One of their friends, John Finley Scott, had built a fully functioning MTB using a Schwinn road bike frame and fat tires 20 years before the Marin guys started their experiments. He called it a "Woodsy Bike".
For me, an old-fashioned, rigid, heavy duty bike with 26" wheels (or now, maybe 650B) with fat tires and MTB handlebars is the very essence of a bicycle. I do prefer Norba geometry over Repack geometry, although my one bike with Repack geometry is a blast to ride! On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 4:58:43 AM UTC-5, ascpgh wrote: > > From an interview of Matt Marcus (early eastern MTBer) by Blue Ridge > Outdoors on some predecessors to what we know as klunkers: > > *MM:* Back when I owned the bike shop in the 90s, I came across this >> story on this sheet of paper about how back in the 1920s during Prohibition >> moonshiners made these bicycles with gearing that they used to run the >> moonshine over the mountains from Dryfork, W.V., in Randolph County. That’s >> the story and if I ever find it again I’ll send it to you. I don’t even >> know where it came from. >> But it wasn’t one group. Hundreds of people all over the world discovered >> mountain biking. It was just the guys out in California that finally took >> it to production. They’re the ones who pulled it off. It seems like there >> are more bike shops in California and Florida than anywhere else in the >> U.S. and its because of the climate and terrain. > > > Andy Cheatham > Pittsburgh > On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 5:25:08 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> That is an interesting video, and interesting hair. I wish they'd show a >> smoking coaster hub, though. >> >> Notice too the no retention pedals and "ride in what you're wearing" >> clothing. >> >> I was interested to hear whatzizname say that the sport had really >> started 10 or so years earlier; what, mid to late '60s? Nil novum, etc. >> >> Can anyone identify the year or at least specify the period? Late '70s? >> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Liesl <li...@smm.org> wrote: >> >>> Hey, regarding the new riv-posted video... >>> >>> 1) dig pre-famous gary fischer! >>> 2) dig hair! >>> 3) dig the pre-boscos >>> 4) dig the diagatube pre-hunq >>> 5) does anyone see Grant hiding somewhere in there?????? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. >> By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. >> Other professional writing services. >> http://www.resumespecialties.com/ >> www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten >> >> ************************************* >> *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a >> circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and >> individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu >> >> *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle >> >> *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
